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 ...

The M6xTT borrows its bigger brother’s tonearm design – “an ultra-low resonance design with transparent acrylic bearing ring ...