One solution is to block sounds before they hit our room’s naked surfaces – the walls and the ceiling – with physical ...

Featuring an allergic reaction to something unexpected5 more thoughts on the Rotel Michi Q5 (video version) by John Darko July 24, 2025, 15:51 ...

I have more to say about the Rotel Michi Q5 (€5999) that we covered last week. Our video on the Q5 has reached 60,000 people in its first week online. That’s roughly the same number of people as ...

A dongle DAC and headphone amplifier with desktop-level performance? That appears to be the proposition of FiiO’s QX13.

Rotel Michi Q5 video review by John Darko July 19, 2025, 14:35 ...

At its business end, the Pro-Ject mini offers two single-ended headphone outputs (6.4mm and 3.5mm) that, according to the ...

It’s not new, but it’s new to me: Hiby’s UC10 is a USB-S/PDIF converter for a smartphone or tablet (or PC/Mac). The tiny metal-wrapped dongle acts not as a DAC but as a DDC — a digital audio ...

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 ...

FiiO is taking the entry-level fight to WiiM’s door this week with the introduction of the K15: a desktop streaming DAC that’s also a pre-amplifier and a powerful headphone amplifier. Suffering a case ...

The Michi Q5’s disc mechanism is a custom job. From Hifi News: “the laser, motors and (necessarily) the code written for the servo/decoder board are all specific to this model. Moreover, the ...