This is likely to be a bit of a rambling Sunday Thoughts because it’s about a few different things that all come together at the end…I hope…but who knows? It’s a Sunday Thoughts piece and, by their very nature – mostly being written on a Sunday morning – they can be a bit free-form. A […]
BOMBARD AT DUTCH AUDIO EVENT 2026 WITH ACTIVE OPEN BAFFLE SPEAKERS Young Belgian HiFi brand Bombard will introduce its approach to HiFi at Dutch Audio Event 2026.
LAMPIZATOR HORIZON 2 DAC ANNOUNCED Polish HiFi brand LampizatOr has announced the LampizatOr Horizon 2 DAC, the latest development of its Horizon platform.
ABSOLUTE SOUNDS PRESENTS THE HAPPENING IN CAMBRIDGESHIRE THIS OCTOBER Following Absolute Sounds’ announcement of The Happening, the company has now released further details of the audio event, which takes place at Haycock Manor Hotel in Wansford, Cambridgeshire, on Saturday 17th and Sunday 18th October 2026.
AUDIO GROUP DENMARK TO SHOW BØRRESEN, AAVIK AND ANSUZ PRODUCTS AT DAE 2026 Audio Group Denmark (AGD) will bring products from Børresen, Aavik and Ansuz to Dutch Audio Event 2026, with a system covering loudspeakers, amplification, digital sources, cabling, power and network playback.
NAGRA PREAMP II-S REVIEW Janine takes a listen to the iconic Swiss brand’s Preamp II-S, costing £21,998 with the Compact PSU and £18,348 without a PSU. About the same size as my legendary Nagra IV reel-to-reel (at least sideways) and with its iconic “Modulometer” meter on the left, now comes the Nagra Series II Preamp […]
QOBUZ AI-GENERATED MUSIC TAG HELPS LISTENERS IDENTIFY AI MUSIC EASILY Qobuz has introduced a new AI-generated music tag within its app, allowing listeners to identify music that has been identified as AI-generated.
FiiO DP11 CD PLAYER LAUNCHES WITH USB CD RIPPING AND DIGITAL OUTPUTS FiiO has announced the new FiiO DP11 CD Player, a compact tray-loading CD player designed for desktop and home HiFi systems.
IFI UP PLAY MAX BLUETOOTH TRANSMITTER ADDS APTX LOSSLESS, AURACAST AND LOW-LATENCY AUDIO iFi audio has announced the iFi UP Play Max, a compact Bluetooth transmitter designed to add a wider range of Bluetooth codecs and features to smartphones and other source devices.
SUPREME ANALOG FATALE TUBE PREAMPLIFIER USES TRANSFORMER- AND CAPACITOR-FREE SIGNAL PATH The Supreme Analog Fatale Tube Preamplifier uses an audio circuit topology designed without audio transformers or output capacitors in the signal path.
IPS PRO-AUDIO SHOW 2026 COMES TO LONDON THIS OCTOBER The IPS Pro-Audio Show 2026 will take place on Saturday 10th October at The Hub, London South Bank University, near Elephant & Castle.
Onix is a name some music lovers of a certain age will be well aware of. In this review, Michael Fairbairn takes a listen to their £2399 XDA20 Digital-to-Analogue Converter. The XDA20 DAC (Digital-to-Analogue Converter) belongs to the modern era of the British ONIX brand, which is a partnership with Shanling. The Taiwanese/Chinese manufacturer of […]
GET READY FOR THE AV SHOW WARSAW 2026 TICKETS ARE NOW AVAILABLE Another of our favourite European HiFi Shows is the Audio Video Show Warsaw, which is held in October.
REL ACOUSTICS REFERENCE NO.35 AND NO.36 INTRODUCED AS NEW REFERENCE SERIES MODELS REL Acoustics has announced two new models for its REL Reference Series of subwoofers, the REL Reference No.35 and REL Reference No.36.
AUDIOSCRIPT TO SHOW THE LATEST FROM LUXMAN AT DAE 2026 Audioscript will be bringing the latest models from Japanese HiFi brand Luxman to the Dutch Audio Event 2026, in early October.
No, not the picket-line crossing ones, the other ones. You must have had this happen to you when you were younger, or maybe it still happens to you. You had a slip or grazed yourself, you bled, the scrape healed over, and an impossible-to-ignore scab knitted over the wound. As a child and as an […]