NAD has announced the latest member of its Classic series. The C379 is a more traditional-looking integrated amplifier where a volume control, source selector, menu navigation rocker and visual display front a full-width chassis housing a customised UcD output stage. That’s Class D in case you were wondering. According to […] The post NAD announces C379 HybridDigital DAC amplifier first appeared on Darko.Audio.---------------------- No part of this RSS feed to be reproduced, recycled or re-purposed without permission. For private use only. Copyright 2010-2024 · Darko.Audio · All Rights Reserve ..read more

Tongues wagged when renowned speaker-designer Andrew Jones left Elac without saying where he was headed. I don’t think Mo-Fi Electronics, the hardware offshoot of Mobile Fidelity Sound Labs, was on many people’s lists. The company didn’t even make speakers. That didn’t deter Jones; perhaps the clean sheet was a motivating […] The post Mo-Fi Sourcepoint 8 loudspeaker review first appeared on Darko.Audio.---------------------- No part of this RSS feed to be reproduced, recycled or re-purposed without permission. For private use only. Copyright 2010-2024 · Darko.Audio · All Rights Reserved ..read more

Five years. That’s how long Volumio’s Motivo has been in the oven. We first met its iPad-meets-DAC ambitions at Munich High-End 2019 but only recently has its design been finalised for the unit to formally debut as a finished product at Munich High-End 2024. The Motivo is a streaming source, […] The post Volumio’s Motivo joins the touchscreen streaming DAC race first appeared on Darko.Audio.---------------------- No part of this RSS feed to be reproduced, recycled or re-purposed without permission. For private use only. Copyright 2010-2024 · Darko.Audio · All Rights Reserved ..read more

? 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 Further […] The post KEF LSX II LT + KUBE 8 MIE video review first appeared on Darko.Audio.---------------------- No part of this RSS feed to be reproduced, recycled or re-purposed without permission. For private use only. Copyright 2010-2024 · Darko.Audio · All Rights Reserved ..read more

China’s Moondrop – who recently gave us the DiscDream portable CD player – return this week with another head-turner: the MIAD01 is a smartphone designed with audiophile sensitivities in mind and is loaded with two headphone sockets. From the top, the MIAD01 is a 5G-capable smartphone whose native Android 13 […] The post A hi-fi smartphone for 2024: Moondrop’s MIAD01 first appeared on Darko.Audio.---------------------- No part of this RSS feed to be reproduced, recycled or re-purposed without permission. For private use only. Copyright 2010-2024 · Darko.Audio · All Rights Reserved ..read more

KrautFi? It’s hifi from Germany. Yet nobody calls it that. So why ChiFi? More than a decade ago that audio slang stood for cheap‘n’cheerful kit from the Middle Kingdom routinely based on tubes. The slightly derogatory – if then perhaps not entirely unfounded – connotation was unproven reliability; possibly dubious […] The post LAiV Harmony DAC review first appeared on Darko.Audio.---------------------- No part of this RSS feed to be reproduced, recycled or re-purposed without permission. For private use only. Copyright 2010-2024 · Darko.Audio · All Rights Reserved ..read more

In recent installments, we’ve looked at remastered albums from The Cure, Pixies and Orbital. Today we turn our attention to Peter Gabriel’s i/o. It’s not a remaster but it already needs one. Let me explain… i/o is Peter Gabriel’s first album in 21 years; his first since the respectable (if […] The post I hate to say it but Peter Gabriel’s i/o needs remastering first appeared on Darko.Audio.---------------------- No part of this RSS feed to be reproduced, recycled or re-purposed without permission. For private use only. Copyright 2010-2024 · Darko.Audio · All Rights Reserved ..read more

Having made a name for itself ten years ago with the Hiface USB-S/PDIF converter and flying under the radar ever since, M2Tech has announced a new Classic integrated amplifier with no digital audio compatibility whatsoever. Heck, the Classic integrated even looks like a throwback to the amplifiers of the 1980s. […] The post Party like it’s 1989 with the M2Tech Classic integrated amplifier first appeared on Darko.Audio.---------------------- No part of this RSS feed to be reproduced, recycled or re-purposed without permission. For private use only. Copyright 2010-2024 · Darko.Audio · All Rights ..read more

In this episode of the Darko.Audio podcast, Srajan unearths a DAC that ‘competes with DACs selling for two or three times the price’. That isn’t the sound of hot air, our man from 6moons hiding behind a generalisation. Srajan qualifies his finding by explicitly naming those more expensive units. Elsewhere, […] The post Podcast #53: “Move over, Denafrips” + more on Dolby Atmos™ first appeared on Darko.Audio.---------------------- No part of this RSS feed to be reproduced, recycled or re-purposed without permission. For private use only. Copyright 2010-2024 · Darko.Audio · All Rights Reserved ..read more

Double-dipping is the slightly unsavoury end of London Record’s super deluxe reissue (and remaster) of Orbital’s eponymous debut from 1991, often referred to as The Green Album. We detailed the specifics of the new formats when they were announced in January. Shipping would begin in mid-April: did Sir want a 4LP […] The post Orbital’s Green Album (2024 edition): 43 bonus tracks, better sound quality first appeared on Darko.Audio.---------------------- No part of this RSS feed to be reproduced, recycled or re-purposed without permission. For private use only. Copyright 2010-2024 · Darko.Au ..read more