Editor’s Choice

• Global feedback: black or silver? 31st December 2025
  Earlier this week, a finish preference poll followed my extensive article weighing the pros and cons of black versus silver hi-fi components. I invited Darko.Audio YouTube subscribers and Patrons to choose between the two. The results are in. And they’re spookily consistent. YouTube (10,000 votes): Black: 63% Silver: 37% Patreon […] The post Global feedback: […]
• Black or silver? The eternal hi-fi aesthetic debate 29th December 2025
  [Editor’s note: This is the seventh in a series of fifteen observations from fifteen years of audio writing] Black or silver? It’s the question that keeps us scrolling through product photos at 2 am, agonising over a choice that has nothing to do with sound quality and everything to do […] The post Black or […]
• 10 CD players (& transports) for your consideration in 2026 28th December 2025
  Forget music streaming for a moment. While the hi-fi press was obsessing over touchscreens, Spotify Lossless and Qobuz Connect in 2025, something rather unexpected happened: CD players staged a comeback. Today, we’re looking at ten newcomers: a mix of CD transports (digital output only, requiring an external DAC) and CD […] The post 10 CD […]