Editor’s Choice

• FiiO’s R2R Warmer DAC houses the holy trinity of audiophile catnip 24th November 2025
  FiiO is about to release a DAC that houses the holy trinity of audiophile catnip: 1) an R2R decoder that feeds 2) a tube-buffered output stage and 3) backlit mechanical VU meters on the front panel. The R2R Warmer puts these three features in a half-width box for an asking […] The post FiiO’s R2R […]
• 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 […]