Editor’s Choice

• Black or silver? The eternal hi-fi aesthetic debate 29th December 2025
  [Editor’s note: This is the seventh in a series of fifteen observations from fifteen years of audio writing] 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 […] The post Black or […]
• 10 CD players (& transports) for your consideration in 2026 28th December 2025
  Forget music streaming for a moment. While the hi-fi press was obsessing over touchscreens, Spotify Lossless and Qobuz Connect in 2025, something rather unexpected happened: CD players staged a comeback. Today, we’re looking at ten newcomers: a mix of CD transports (digital output only, requiring an external DAC) and CD […] The post 10 CD […]
• (Not the) BEST OF 2025 23rd December 2025
  🎥 Camera: John Darko / Olaf von Voss 🎬 Editor: John Darko 🌈 Colour: Olaf von Voss 🕺🏻 Motion GFX: John Darko 💰 Ad segment: Jana Dagdagan 🎵 Song IDs? Playlists of all music heard in this video – and other videos – can be found on PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/johndarko 0:00 […] The post (Not the) […]