Black or silver? It’s the question that keeps us scrolling through product photos at 2 am, agonising over a choice that has nothing to do with sound quality and everything to do with how we’ll feel ...

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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2025 really has been the year of the CD player comeback. Just when we thought the announcements were done for the year, Shanling slides another under the door. The new CT90 top-loading CD transport ...

The Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 smartphone changed how I browse for streamable music. The FiiO FT7 pumped the brakes on my search for more luxurious headphones. And the DALI Kupid loudspeakers proved that ...

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.

FiiO’s product release schedule has gone properly bonkers in 2025. At roughly one new announcement per week, keeping up with its catalogue has become a full-time job – and that’s before we’ve even ...