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Forté Distribution unveils U.S. release of the Luxsin X8 DAC & headphone amp, a dual-mono, AI-enhanced powerhouse with eight DAC chips, advanced DSP, and support for 2,500+ headphone models.
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This 2025 holiday gift guide charges through sub-$400 audiophile gems, spotlighting beryllium-kissed headphones, Chi-Fi IEM overachievers and Andrew Jones–tuned speakers, sketching a lineup that sounds far pricier than its festive price ceiling.
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Robert Schryer finds himself unexpectedly swept away by NuPrime’s IDA-9, a sleek, compact powerhouse whose rich, dynamic sound belies its price.
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While streaming dominates, Shanling SCD3.3 is a bold high-end SACD/CD player and DAC, featuring a custom R2R DAC, tube output stage, and top-loading transport — defying trends with audiophile precision.
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NuPrime’s IDA-9 replaces the IDA-8 with a faster 600 kHz Class-D stage, GaN-based power supply, and precision resistor-ladder volume control—all in a compact chassis engineered entirely in-house for speed, consistency, and control.
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Robert Schryer spends a week with Rega’s new Mercury preamp and Solis amplifier stack before they’re shipped off for their North American launch in Victoria, British Columbia—and misses them dearly once they’re gone.
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MACO’s Macaria open-baffles and Whammerdyne’s 2A3 monoblocks delivered ultra-transparent, tactile sound with striking vocal intimacy.
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MOON by Simaudio’s 371 network player/amplifier—the debut of the new Compass Collection—has landed, packing serious tech and features into one sleek box.
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Howard Milstein takes the Allnic Audio A-2000 Mk3 tube power amplifier out for a test drive and discovers how powerful it is.
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Frank Doris discovers his system’s sound had subtly worsened—until a corroded breaker, a house-wide power mystery, and an unexpected speaker tweak revealed what was really going on.
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Tom Gibbs discovers fabulous new power conditioning gear from Vera-Fi Audio and a 300B amp for under $1K he can’t stop listening to.
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Bruno Putzeys concludes his two-part series that explains why active speakers are inherently better than passive ones.
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Stéphane Hautcoeur’s Eon Art blends class-A purity with class-D power in modular, upgradeable amps—rejecting separates to preserve signal integrity and maximum linearity through science, not myth, with their flagship Hadron leading a bold push into the high-end market.
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What can active speakers do that passive ones can’t? Impulse response, impulse response, impulse response, says Bruno Putzeys. That, and their sheer practicality, makes them the wave of the future.
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What can active speakers do that passive ones can’t? Impulse response, impulse response, impulse response, says Bruno Putzeys. That, and their sheer practicality, makes them the wave of the future.