My favourite Bluetooth headphone of 2025, the Px8 S2, edged out the Sennheiser HDB 630 on excitement and dynamics. Now Bowers ...

It's not just about bass whomp.

How many subwoofers are Darko.Audio’s YouTube viewers actually running? The answer, it turns out, is mostly none or one. I ...

AXPONA 2026 has wrapped its three-day run at the Renaissance Schaumburg Convention Centre. The USA’s largest hi-fi show drew its usual crowd of manufacturers, distributors and enthusiasts. And if ...

Shanling has announced the SM1.3R, an R2R-powered sibling to the SM1.3 streaming DAC that landed in late 2024. The chassis, ...

The most persistent objection to acoustic treatment isn’t cost. It’s aesthetics. Very few hi-fi enthusiasts want their ...

A €5000 loudspeaker cable that a listener swears sounds more open and airy than a €50 one, yet no measurement can identify ...

Four posts a week. That’s the cadence I’ve maintained on this website since 2016, and it served me well, especially as YouTube video production began swallowing more and more of my working week. Then, ...

Audiophiles are terrible at prioritising. They are also terrible at explaining those priorities to newcomers. First-hand experience tells us that almost everything makes a difference – yes, even ...

The M6xi is aimed squarely at listeners with an established source chain, whether that is vinyl, CD or a dedicated external ...

Named after the primaeval giant of Norse mythology, the Ymir arrives as a complete clean-sheet design, sharing nothing with the Icon 12 or Verdande that preceded it.

So there you have it: five reasons to add a subwoofer to your hi-fi system. Not explosions. Not car-audio showboating.