However, the standout trend for 2025 is that many CD players now include digital inputs, allowing them to serve as DACs for our streaming devices. In this list, that’s the bigger Shanling, the Rotel, ...

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The new CT90 top-loading CD transport picks up where the ET3 left off, but with key differences. The compact ET3 was a ...

These three products delivered big surprises without big prices. And we’ll look at them in descending price order. Yes, this is a smartphone on an audio website. At €1300 (US$1400), the Galaxy Z Fold ...

The Danish manufacturer is introducing two standmount models and three floorstanders, along with on-wall and cinema-specific variants.

Yes, age-related hearing loss is real. Where once we could hear the full sweep up to 18kHz as teenagers, these days in our fifties and sixties, we’re probably tapping out around 14kHz on a good day.

The CD Box RS2 Tube joins the Austrian manufacturer's RS2 line with a top-loading mechanism, a pair of E88CC tubes and an integrated TI DAC.

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QUAD has announced the 3CDT, a dedicated CD transport designed to partner with its recently launched QUAD 3 integrated amplifier. The new tray-loading transport (not a slot-loader) maintains the 3 ...

The Eversolo PLAY CD Edition costs €799, adding a Hitachi CD drive to the standard €699 model. That puts even the base PLAY at €100 more than WiiM’s AMP Ultra (€599). After six weeks of side-by-side ...

Since February, I’ve had the Marantz Model 10 in two acoustically treated listening rooms – one in Berlin, one in Lisbon. This €14,500/US$15,000 integrated amplifier has been side-by-side compared ...

In a recent video, I said that I didn’t see the utility of multi-room streaming for smaller apartments; that if I wanted to hear music while I was upstairs in my 80sqm one-bedroom duplex, I’d simply ...