Editor’s Choice

• Why I will never call hi-fi gear “musical” 🌶️ 19th January 2026
  [Editor’s note: This is the eighth in a series of fifteen observations from fifteen years of audio writing] Musical. The word lands on audio forums and Facebook groups like a wet blanket, smothering specificity and suffocating insight. Everyone feels they know what musicality means. Nobody can pin it down. That’s […] The post Why I […]
• T+A Talis S 330 vs. Vivid Kaya 45: a year of living with two philosophies 18th January 2026
  Here’s a myth worth busting: expensive loudspeakers don’t converge on a singular “accurate” sound. As if any of us could know what accurate sounded like. We cannot. And it’s not just me saying this. Steve Guttenberg has said as much, and – more importantly – storied loudspeaker designer Andrew Jones […] The post T+A Talis […]
• The Technics EAH-AZ100 grounded my Sennheisers! 15th January 2026
  🎥 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 The Technics […]