The King is dead. Long live the King. Daniel Ek has stepped down as CEO from Spotify to become Executive Chairman. Alex Norström and Gustav Söderström will now share the CEO role.

Shipping from tomorrow, 1st October: a new CD transport from TEAC. The PD-507T is 4kg half-width box that utilises the Japanese company’s in-housed designed and manufacturerd ‘floating’ disc mechasism ...

Those VU meters neatly centralise T+A’s intent to walk the aesthetic middle ground with between the Braun aesthetic and straight-up Future-Fi. The Symphonia is made in Germany, which is one reason why ...

Perhaps most notable to eagle eye readers is the PX8 S2’s slimmer profile (and its more compact travel case). Bowers & Wilkins has reportedly worked on improving on-head comfort; here’s hoping they’ve ...

Three days ago, we reported on a firmware update (v1.04) rolling out to Rotel Michi Q5 owners via the unit’s network connection. The update would 1) make cover art’s download n’ display considerably ...

From the press release: “The new “enhanced magnet” uses rare-earth-free magnetic materials with an optimally designed structure to achieve a level of sensitivity that is comparable to drivers with ...

Less thrilling was the failed promise of cover art display on the front panel, albeit as a postage stamp-sized render. A software glitch caused the Michi Q5 to successfully pull-down cover art via its ...

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

The Phantom Ulitmate 108dB and the smaller – but cheaper – Phantom 98dB retain the 2015 original’s dinosaur egg shape and its HBI (“Heart Bass Implosion”) tech to offer infrasonic bass down to 14Hz ...