Editor’s Choice

• How age-related hearing loss emboldens hi-fi cope 18th December 2025
  [Editor’s note: This is the sixth in a series of fifteen observations from fifteen years of audio writing] I’ve been reading my own comments sections for fourteen years now – seven on this website, seven on YouTube – and the cope is real. Particularly when expensive gear enters the chat. […] The post How age-related […]
• Pro-Ject adds tubes, DAC to its flagship CD transport 16th December 2025
  Pro-Ject has introduced another CD transport that now doubles as a CD player. The CD Box RS2 Tube joins the Austrian manufacturer’s RS2 line with a top-loading mechanism, a pair of E88CC tubes in its output stage and – perhaps surprisingly for a transport – an integrated DAC. Local mechanisms […] The post Pro-Ject adds […]
• MUSIC FIRST! Bowers & Wilkins Px8 S2 review (vs. Sennheiser HDB 630) 15th December 2025
  🎥 Camera: John Darko & Olaf von Voss 🎬 Editor: John Darko 🌈 Colour: Olaf von Voss 🕺🏻 Motion GFX: John Darko 🎵 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 Intro 1:12 The Bowers basics […] The post MUSIC FIRST! […]