For a hi-fi or head-fi product to qualify for ‘Product of the Year’ or ‘Best of 2024’ at Darko.Audio, I must have spent several weeks with it. That immediately disqualifies products seen and heard at ...

End-of-year ‘best of’ lists should be easy to put together: take a breezy look back at the year almost gone and pick a few favourites. Job done. If only it were that simple. I think calling ‘best’ is ...

Best? When I say best, I mean favourite. My favourite hi-fi products for 2024 were chosen on merit and my predilection for ...

Designed in collaboration with Nine Inch Nails bass/synth player, solo electronic musician and - full disclosure - personal friend Alessandro Cortini.

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

UPDATE 17th December: an abridged video version of this gift guide can be found here. Meze didn’t send me the 105 AER. I bought a pair from my local hi-fi store. Shout out to Hifi im Hinterhof in ...

I want to name the best hi-fi products of 2024 — but who am I kidding? Per October’s YouTube short, if we’re going to consider what’s ‘best’, we really gotta ask: “best for whom?“. We are all ...

In the wake of Musical Fidelity’s M8xTT turntable comes the smaller and lighter M6xTT. The new model aims to bring the flagship’s design philosophy down to a more affordable price point. And that ...