I recently put up a poll on the Darko Audio YouTube channel: when did you last buy a CD? Just under 10,000 people responded. Three things stood out from the results (shown above). There isn’t much ...
Half of the people buying CDs in the USA this year don’t own a CD player. Hold that thought, though, because CD sales are up 16 percent year on year for the first half of 2026, reaching 16.3 million ...
The MODEL 70 and the CD 70 pick up where the PM6007 and CD6007 left off. In Marantz’s own words, they are “the next evolution ...
The Shanling SCD3.3 and the SACD "Gotcha" you need to know about.
The plan was to use the DragonFly Copper, AudioQuest’s latest dongle DAC. German customs had other ideas, and it took its time reaching Berlin. So only four dongle DACs initially made the coffee table ...
This is the third in a series of four – maybe five – CD player reviews for 2026. The Shanling SCD3.3 is a top-loading CD/SACD player that folds in some very basic USB drive file playback. It asks ...
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It’s been an interesting month for ‘new’ old music. Placebo ‘Re-Created’ its 1996 indie-rock debut to mark the album’s 30th anniversary: a remix (plus overdubs) pushes its guitar sound closer to early ...
PSB first showed the Alpha iQ – a streaming active loudspeaker built around the BluOS platform – back in 2023. The Canadian company has now spun that single product into two new streaming active ...
🎵 Song IDs? Playlists of all music heard in this video – and other videos – can be found on PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/johndarko ...
Shanling’s top-tier R2R conversion has so far only lived inside boxes that do other things. It debuted in the SCD3.3 SACD player alongside a tube buffer and turned up again in the SM1.3R streamer. The ...
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