Shanling CT90 CD Transport – Quick Look All Image Credit: Shanling 2025 has seen a deluge of CD players and transports appear. Now Shanling closes out 2025 with the release of their CT90 transport. Picking up where the ET3 left off, the CT90 stretches to two-thirds width and comes with […]

Shanling CT90 CD Transport – Quick Look

DALI Announces SONIK Loudspeaker Series All Image Credit: DALI The Danish manufacturer DALI has announced the SONIK Series, a seven-model loudspeaker range for both music and film. Every speaker in the series incorporates DALI’s patented SMC magnet system, delivering ultra-low distortion and together with the Clarity Cone drivers inherited from […]

DALI Announces SONIK Loudspeaker Series

Pro-Ject Introduces CD Box RS2 Tube – Quick Look All Image Credit: Pro-Ject Austrian Hi-Fi manufacturer Pro-Ject has announced a CD transport that also doubles as a CD player, the CD Box RS2 Tube. This new model joins the RS2 line with a top-loading mechanism, a pair of E88CC tubes […]

Pro-Ject Introduces CD Box RS2 Tube – Quick Look

Connected-Fidelity CF-1010 Tone Arm – First Look All Image Credit: Connected-Fidelity British HiFi brand Connected-Fidelity has announced the new Connected-Fidelity CF-1010 tone arm, a UK-manufactured 9-inch design that features a curved titanium arm tube with an integral head-shell. The CF-1010 tone arm uses a titanium arm tube to provide rigidity […]

Connected-Fidelity CF-1010 Tone Arm – First Look

Cayin Announces All-Tube Soul 170C & 170P Amplifiers All Image Credit: Cayin Cayin of China have announced a new high-end tube pre/power amplifier combo as part of their Soul series, the 170C pre-amplifier and 170P power amplifier. These all-tube amplifiers come with  front panels are made of brushed matte black […]

Cayin Announces All-Tube Soul 170C & 170P Amplifiers

QUAD Announces The 3CDT Dedicated CD Transport All Image Credit: QUAD QUAD of the UK continues to support physical media with the launch of the 3CDT, a dedicated CD transport designed to complement the recently launched QUAD 3 integrated amplifier. The new tray-loading transport retains the 3 Series’ retro styling […]

QUAD Announces The 3CDT Dedicated CD Transport

Musical Fidelity Announces Nu-Vista Vinyl S Phono Stage All Image Credit: Musical Fidelity Musical Fidelity has announced the Nu-Vista Vinyl S phono stage, providing a flexible front end for vinyl systems and designed to complement the Nu-Vista 600.2 and 800.2 integrated amplifiers. It is now available in both black and […]

Musical Fidelity Announces Nu-Vista Vinyl S Phono Stage

Aavik Launches R-X88 Series Phonostages All Image Credit: Aavik Audio Group Denmark has launched the new Aavik R-X88 series of phonostages, comprised of three models; the Aavik R-188, Aavik R-288, and Aavik R-588. This new range of phono amplifiers are designed for only Moving Coil and DS Audio optical cartridges. […]

Aavik Launches R-X88 Series Phonostages

Rega Adds New Reference-Level ND9 Cartridge All Image Credit: Rega Rega has announced the Nd9, their new reference-level moving magnet cartridge that tops out the Nd series. This hand-built cartridge uses an advanced “fine line” nude diamond profile, bonded to a Boron rod cantilever, similar to their Aphelion 2 moving-coil […]

Rega Adds New Reference-Level Nd9 Cartridge

Volumio Primo Plus Streaming DAC – Quick Look All Image Credit: Volumino Italian Hi-Fi brand Volumio has announced the launch of the Volumio Primo Plus, a newly developed Streaming DAC designed to deliver high-quality digital playback. This latest model builds upon the earlier Primo but is a complete redesign and […]

Volumio Primo Plus Streaming DAC – Quick Look

FiiO Releases R2R Tube DAC – First Look All Image Credit: FiiO FiiO is shortly to release the R2R Tube DAC. This latest minimalist design will please many audiophiles as it uses an R2R decoder driving a tube-buffered output stage and comes with backlit mechanical VU meters. The whole design […]

FiiO Releases R2R Tube DAC – First Look

Rega Launches Mercury Pre-Amplifier and Solis Power Amplifier All Image Credit: Rega Rega has announced two reference grade amplifiers, the Mercury pre-amplifier and the Solis power amplifier. Mercury Pre-Amplifier The Mercury employs fully discrete symmetrical circuitry throughout its signal path with each stage employing complementary Class A output stage amplifiers. […]

Rega Launches Mercury Pre-Amplifier and Solis Power Amplifier

Lumin Debuts X2 Flagship Streaming DAC All Image Credit: Lumin LUMIN, who hails from Hong Kong, has just announced the launch of the X2, a flagship streaming DAC that uses their discrete DAC implementation rather than of-the-shelf DAC chips. The X2’s DAC its at the heart of the fully balanced […]

Lumin Debuts X2 Flagship Streaming DAC

Shanling Launches New SCD3.3 Flagship SACD Player All Image Credit: Shanling Physical media just won’t die, thank goodness, and Shanling shows its endearing support with their upcoming release of the flagship SCD3.3 SACD player. This latest flagship design comes with a discrete R2R DAC, 12AT7 tube output stages and Bluetooth […]

Shanling Launches New SCD3.3 Flagship SACD Player

Topping D900 1-Bit DAC – First Look All Image Credit: Topping Topping, a Chinese Hi-Fi manufacturer, has released its new flagship D900 DAC that is designed around a proprietary discrete 1-bit conversion technology rather than employing conventional, and readily available digital-to-analogue converters. Topping calls this 1-bit approach a Precision Stream […]

Topping D900 1-Bit DAC – First Look