My Video Review: When I finished my FiiO BTR5 review, I was so impressed by its performance and overall sound quality in both wired and wireless mode that I immediately sent an email and a tweet to FiiO, literally begging for a DAP the size of M5 or slightly bigger, without any wireless …

My Video Review: Once I started testing a lot of digital sources from all over Asia, few of our readers suggested testing some of the digital to analog converters from the Gustard team. After some research, we found that Gustard is quite popular in China, especially over Erji.net they have quite a …

My Video Review: I still remember it clearly when Audio-GD announced that they bought the latest batches of the best commercial made DAC chips from Burr-Brown, the legendary PCM1704 chips that everyone wanted to have in their digital sources. That news had a twofold effect on me. On one hand I was …

My Video Review: With the release of their entry level Digital-To-Analog-Converter Ares – which symbolizes the God Of War in Greek Mythology, Denafrips officially announced a long-term-assault and declared war to the Delta-Sigma DACs found in 99% of all your modern audio sources as smartphones, …

My Video Review: You might have heard about a company from the land of the Red Dragon called Audio-GD. They are crafting anything really in the digital and analog domain. From simple DAC and headphone amp units to big and heavy integrated amps and mono-blocks. In the early days of headphone …

My Video Review: Who would thought that at their flagship year from its inception, FiiO would announce at their Winter Launch Event in an One More Thing stunt, their highest performance and highly anticipated M15 DAP. What was quite unusual even for FiiO is that instead of just showing it to the …

My Video Review: Without too much fanfare on 30 July of this year (2019), FiiO dropped the bomb and announced their latest and greatest M11 PRO DAP in a Facebook post. To this day, that one was the most commented post in FiiOs history and a clear message that people were genuinely excited about …

My Unboxing video: My video Review: Disclaimer: Burson Conductor 3 Reference was loaned to us for a two-week evaluation in exchange for our honest opinion. We thank team Burson Audio for this opportunity! It all started about 2 years ago when I sent an email to Burson Audio asking when Conductor …

My video Review: Disclaimer: Sound BlasterX G6 was sent to us free of charge in exchange for our honest opinion. We thank team Creative Labs for this opportunity. OK guys, confession time: Yes, I game myself time and time again. I’m mostly a single-player type of gamer, searching for nice and …

My video review: One of the most advanced, if not The most advanced portable DAC and headphone amp that could be connected wired or wireless to a smartphone was FiiO Q5 released about one year ago – a marvelous piece of equipment that worked with PCs/Laptops and with Android or iOS devices alike, …

My video review: FiiO released a lot of portable devices capable of playing back music for the general public or for starry-eyed audiophiles, they even shown efforts for the wireless aficionados and released few products as well. At FiiO Spring Festival 2019 was shown a product what was positioned …

My video review: Converting vinyl lovers to digital music is like converting vegetarians, that will most likely never happen. Well, except if a digital source is not sounding “digital” anymore. That was the basic idea behind R-2R Ladder DACs that are doing things differently compared to …

Disclaimer: KECES S3 was send to us as a review unit in exchange for our honest opinion. We thank team KECES for this opportunity. My video review: KECES Audio is proudly making Digital to Analog Converters for more than 10 years already. I still remember researching for affordable DACs at that …

This is my 4-way DAC Comparison/Review that I hope will help you choose the right DAC for you. My video review: Hey everyone, as promised my 4-way DAC comparison is ready and here are my findings. All of them except for DAC 3 L were reviewed around here and my personal DAC is the X-Sabre Pro, all …

Disclaimer: Matrix Audio Element X was loaned to me directly from the factory. It will be returned back after the test period ends. My video review: In the fall of 2018 Matrix Audio shown the world the face of their newest Element series of products. Being an early adopter and later on an owner of …

My video review: Designed in New York, USA and Made in Poland proudly says the founder Michal Jurewicz about their products. He founded Mytek Digital in 1992 in New York but a couple of years have passed until their first product seen the light of the day. All the assembly work was moved entirely …

My video review: At FiiO Spring Launch Event held in March 2019, FiiO wowed the crowd with multiple new and innovative devices. As far as I know they embraced first the THX AAA lowest-noise amp module that could be used in a DAP, they introduced a DAP with 3 headphone outputs to impress the crowd, …

Disclaimer: The Burson Audio Swing was sent to us free of charge in exchange for our honest review. We thank team Burson Audio for that! My video review: 2019 seems quite busy for Burson Audio, first release of the year was the extraordinary Playmate and now they offer a much-needed dedicated DAC …

Disclaimer: Aune S6 PRO was sent to us free of charge in exchange for our honest opinion. We thank team Aune Audio for this opportunity. My video review is right here: At München High-End Show 2019 that was held just few days ago Aune Audio unveiled few updated audio components, to us the most …

Disclaimer: the LOXJIE D20 was sent to us free of charge in exchange for our honest opinion. We thank Mandy for this opportunity. My video review can be seen right here: You will need a lot of courage, commitment and a bit of insanity in an abundant sea of chi-fi audio components to launch a …

My video review can be found right here: My all-time favorite FiiO device for a very long time was the E10K DAC/headphone amp combo, I loved that thing to death, it went with me in shorter or longer trips, it was very easy to use and very reliable. I just knew what to expect from it, I started to …

Disclaimer : The Burson Playmate was sent to us free of charge in exchange for our honest review. We thank team Burson Audio for that! Our video review is right here: Burson forges are running hot these past days. The fire just settled down around the Play, Fun and Bang, all released not too long …

Disclaimer : The FiiO M6 was sent to us free of charge in exchange for our honest review. We thank FiiO for that! For me newest addition to the M series of DAPs from FiiO came as a surprise. I just didn’t see it coming and no one knew about the M6 development. A bigger surprise came after I realized …

Disclaimer : The FiiO M9 was sent to us free of charge in exchange for our honest review. We thank team FiiO for that! There were many things that bothered me in the past regarding X series of DAPs from FiiO, they looked modern and cool but the actual finish was never top-notch and not at a very …

Hello, my name’s Hugo, I like rainbows and I’m an audioholic! Hello Hugo, I’m Sandu, I love bock beers and I’m also an a̶l̶c̶o̶ho̶l̶i̶c̶ audioholic! Four years ago, Rob Watts revolutionized the DAC market by introducing the cute little Chord Hugo – a high performance DAC and headphone amplifier. …

Disclaimer : The FiiO M7 was sent to us free of charge in exchange for our honest review. We thank FiiO for that! FiiO redesigned their entire line of portable DAPs and M7 is first from this newborn series. At first inspection I realized that M7 is completely different from other DAPs rooted in X …

Disclaimer : The FiiO Q5 was sent to us free of charge in exchange for our honest review. We thank team FiiO for that! We have been waiting for a long time for a top DAC/Amp combo from FiiO, especially if we take into consideration that the last such devices were E18 and E17K launched 4 years ago …

Disclaimer : The Burson Play was sent to us free of charge in exchange for our honest review. We thank team Burson Audio for that! You know what? I have a soft spot for Burson Audio gear. And that’s because 7 years ago I was publishing my absolutely first review on this website and that review was …

Disclaimer : The FiiO M3K was sent to us free of charge in exchange for our honest review. We thank FiiO for that! At the beginning of 2016 I had the pleasure of testing the smallest Hi-Res capable DAP on the market, the FiiO M3. I was pretty enthusiastic about it as the sound was exactly what I was …

iFi Audio iDAC2 review You have probably heard by now about iFi Audio. They are quite new to the audiophiles but that was enough to take by storm the affordable audio equipment market. However iFi are not beginners, they are a division of Abbingdon Music Research (AMR) who already have the expertise …