I will admit to being a little confounded by WiiM's latest product announcement. Teased at the Bristol Hifi Show last month, ...

Xuanqian Wang. AURALIC’s CEO. At least, he was until the beginning of 2025. Wang has stepped down to work on other ventures ...

Wrapped in a thick-walled aluminium chassis that registers 23kg on the scales, the SU-R1000 must surely be an old-school ...

A Rotel for deskhounds? The DX-3 is the Japanese company’s new DAC, headphone amplifier and pre-amplifier. From a compact ...

Coming down the pike from Rega: a new version of its entry-level Brio. The Brio MK7 is an integrated amplifier wrapped in a half-width aluminium chassis that threatens 50wpc into 8 Ohms and 73wpc into ...

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The ‘Ess you are one thousand’ – or SU-R1000 (€8499/US$9999) – has been Technics’ flagship integrated amplifier for the past five years. Its vital statistics are as follows: two sets of loudspeaker ...

John currently lives in Berlin where he creates videos and podcasts for Darko.Audio. He has previously contributed to 6moons, TONEAudio, AudioStream and Stereophile.