From palm-sized portables to living room centrepieces, 2025’s audio gear show you don’t need separates stacked teeteringly to the ceiling to get outstanding sound. Time to reveal which speakers earned ...

As for those digital-to-analog conversions, the A8 Apex and A10 Apex use the same “high-quality” DAC (ESS9018). While the flagship A12 Apex has been given a top-tier ESS9039 DAC for “ultimate audio ...

Steve Sells is describing the first listening test of the Naim Statement amplifier system, and how it pumped the heavy, ...

We want you to hear about some the best things we heard in the last year, so here are 25 audio products and experiences that ...

This week Bang & Olufsen celebrated its 100th birthday. And as I read our news story covering its celebratory special edition ...

News; 22/10/2025 ; The new Ray Dolby Centre at Cambridge University boasts a fusion of technology that ranges from the ...

Quad has officially launched the Platina Integrated Amplifier, the centrepiece of its new Platina Series and what the British ...

Abstract: This paper presents a battery-powered Class-D audio amplifier (CDA). The single-stage topology boosts the output to up to $2 \times$ of the battery voltage using a flying capacitor directly ...

The Platina Stream, developed alongside the Integrated, brings Quad’s legacy into the streaming era with flagship ESS Sabre DAC architecture , precision clocking, and isolated digital and analog ...

Hi-res audio is the pinnacle for digital music fans, but what is it, how can you get it, and what kit do you need to listen ...

Big and bulky units certainly have their place, and the trend towards more size equalling more sound is pretty inescapable, ...

In 2020, Virgil Abloh, the late artistic director at Louis Vuitton and founder of Off-White, started developing an artistic proposal for McIntosh, with the hope that it would lead to a special series ...