Editor’s Choice

• The slow death of audio advertising (and why the conspiracy theorists haven’t noticed) 21st November 2025
  [Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of fifteen observations from fifteen years of audio writing] Fifteen years of writing about hi-fi gear teaches you plenty about amplifiers and DACs, but the real education comes from watching the money flow. The way this industry funds itself has shifted […] The post The slow […]
• Volumio Primo Plus: Florence’s latest streaming export 20th November 2025
  Florence gave us the Renaissance, Michelangelo’s David and the piano. More recently, the Tuscan capital has birthed something decidedly more digital: Volumio, the Italian streaming software company that’s been quietly conquering listening rooms since its VolumioOS first appeared in 2013. Now it’s back with the Primo Plus, a streaming DAC […] The post Volumio Primo […]
• Klipsch’s ProMedia Lumina brings LED lighting to desktop audio 19th November 2025
  Klipsch has announced the ProMedia Lumina: an active 2.1 speaker system that targets gamers, content creators and remote workers — and not (necessarily) audiophiles. According to the press release, the Lumina version arrives twenty-six years after the original ProMedia first appeared in 1999. The satellite speakers, wrapped in a wood-grain […] The post Klipsch’s ProMedia […]