Editor’s Choice

• FiiO’s $549 K15 is a streaming DAC & powerful headphone amplifier 2nd July 2025
  FiiO is taking the entry-level fight to WiiM’s door this week with the introduction of the K15: a desktop streaming DAC that’s also a pre-amplifier and a powerful headphone amplifier. Suffering a case of déjà vu? I know I am. According to the press release, the K15 features trickle-down technology […] The post FiiO’s $549 […]
• ELAC announces Debut ConneX DCB61 1st July 2025
  ELAC has announced its second Debut ConneX powered loudspeaker model. The DCB61 expands on the platform established by the DCB41 with a 6.5″ polypropylene mid/bass driver and wave-guided 1.9cm soft dome tweeter that are respectively powered by 60-Watt and 20-Watt Class D amplifiers. That’s one amplifier per driver. Why? Because […] The post ELAC announces […]
• In Berlin for review: Rotel’s Michi Q5 “CD transport & DAC” 30th June 2025
  My favourite CD transport/player of the last three years? It’s not the Schiti Urd, the Cambridge Audio EVO CD or the TEAC VRDS-701. They each use a slide-out drawer to load and un/load the CD. Long-term use has told me that those drawers are flimsy, as if a falling CD […] The post In Berlin […]