Astell & Kern has launched two new products: a diminutive DAC and a new set of reference in-ear monitor earbuds. The AK HC5 is the size of a lighter but there's nothing small about its specification.

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FiiO just announced the Snowsky Disc, a brand-new digital audio player that blends throwback CD style with serious modern audio guts. This device follows the success of the Snowsky Echo Mini and Nano ...

Fiio M21 is a high-resolution digital audio player made for music lovers who want premium sound quality on the go. Designed to be versatile and powerful, the M21 works not just as a standalone player ...

That R2R resistor array DAC architecture is twinned with a multi-stage audio amplifier which, says FiiO, produces clean ...

The new FiiO DM15 R2R is a new next-generation portable CD player that is designed to redefine what a portable CD player can do with Bluetooth streaming, CD ripping and DAC duties. Hardly a week seems ...

[shiura] had a problem — they wanted a nice high-quality audio output for their computer, but they didn’t fancy any of the DACs that were readily available on the market. They specifically wanted one ...

The player itself features the same audio circuit design as the flagship SP3000, but represents the first outing for AKM's AK4498EX digital-to-analog converters (DAC). In fact the PD10 rocks four of ...