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• Shanling’s SCD3.3 is an SACD player w/ R2R DAC, tubes & touchscreen 28th November 2025
  Shanling has announced the SCD3.3, a top-loading CD/SACD player that combines optical disc-spinning capabilities with contemporary digital flexibility. The Chinese manufacturer’s latest model puts three key pieces of audiophile catnip on board: 1) an R2R ladder DAC, 2) a tube-buffered output stage and 3) a 5″ 854 × 358px touchscreen, […] The post Shanling’s SCD3.3 […]
• How I flatten warped vinyl records at home 28th November 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 How I […]
• Tom Vek’s Sleevenote “is back!” 27th November 2025
  “Sleevenote is back!” proclaimed the email from Tom Vek that landed in my inbox this morning. Remember when playing an album meant holding a 12-inch square in your hands? Musician-turned-designer Vek reckons that digital music lost something essential when it shrunk album art down to thumbnail size. His solution: an […] The post Tom Vek’s […]