Beggars Banquet reissues the 1993 album in the UK and Europe on 13th November. Henry Rudkins handled the remastering at AIR Studios in London.

Craft Recordings has announced a 25th anniversary edition of R.E.M.’s Reveal. The headline format is a 2CD/Blu-ray set in a 32-page hardcover book with archival photos and new liner notes by ...

Rhino has announced a super deluxe edition of Talking Heads’ Fear of Music. It comes in two flavours: a 3CD/Blu-ray set and a ...

I can’t think of another hi-fi manufacturer that puts out new products at anything like FiiO’s rate. In 2026, that rate has ...

🎵 Song IDs? Playlists of all music heard in this video – and other videos – can be found on PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/johndarko John splits his time ...

Most DACs available today use a delta-sigma chip. However, a handful of holdouts still prefer R2R, which does the digital-to-analogue conversion with a ladder of resistors, one rung per bit. The R2R ...

Two months with the Bowers & Wilkins 804 D5, and this 3-way floorstander surprised me in three different ways. At €18,000/US$25,000 per pair, that’s not a claim I make lightly. The 804 D5 doesn’t ...

Hi-fi prices only ever seem to travel in one direction, so a new DAC arriving at US$100 less than the model it replaces is unusual enough to lead with. Schiit Audio has announced Bifrost 3. It keeps ...

Marantz has taken the wraps off the MCR 60n, the follow-up to the M-CR612 (which was known as the Melody X in some markets). By the company’s own reckoning, it’s the most capable compact all-in-one ...

17:30 Who is it for? John splits his time between Lisbon and Berlin, where he creates videos and podcasts for Darko.Audio. He has previously contributed to 6moons, TONEAudio, AudioStream and ...