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SMSL DA-8S Review – Affordable Power

SMSL released a product line that is even friendlier with your pockets, which promises great performance at less than $250 per component. It is their S-8 line of which 3 products have been released...

TOPPING A50 & P50 Review = Double Impact!

What a crazy and crowded year was 2019 for TOPPING. They were able to release not one, not two but three flagship DACs: the technical and serious DX7 Pro, its musical and playful brother D90 and th...

Moondrop Starfield IEM Review

Nobody believed single driver IEMs could sound as good as top-of-the-line multi-BA IEMs. That is until Sennheiser proved everybody’s wrong with the release of the single driver IE800 in 2012. It so...

xDuoo TA-30 Review – A Box Full of Surprises

Considering that TA-30 is an all-tube design, I expected a slower and a mellower tonality, but xDuoo managed to impress me with a neutral, transparent, energetic and faster sound presentation. It b...

TOPPING D90 Review – A Genre Master!

I knew TOPPING was brewing something new about one year ago, something that would sit on an iron throne in their product line, in the summer of 2019 I found out it’s their flagship D90 DAC that jus...

xDuoo XD05 Plus Review - Desktop Power on the Go

The headphone jack of modern smartphones looks like a beautiful forgotten dream and since no one wants to use outdated smartphones just for their headphones jacks, the audio industry needed to wake...

Matrix Audio Element X: Audiophile Hub Review

From the start, I can tell you that element X is again a pioneer in terms of feature set since not a single commercial DAC will offer the same quality-of-life improvements and features that element...

TOPPING DX7 Pro Review - A flagship for Everyone!

TOPPING DX7 Pro delivers a solid performance on all fronts; it has everything a knowledgeable audiophile would desire and as result, I consider it an incredible all-in-one device packed with featur...

SMSL M500 Review – MQA for the masses

The coolest product line in the SMSL family to us is their M line of desktop DACs. I’m quite sure you’ve seen at least once their latest designs with an elongated and colorful body. The super tiny ...

SMSL SP200 Review – Hi-Fi sound at a Low-Fi price

Probably the biggest hype I ever encountered in the headphone kingdom was the announcement of THX AAA 789 headphone amp by Massdrop. People called it as the Holy Grail of headphone amplification, a...

TOPPING D50s Review: Potent Essence in Small Bottles

This year was such a busy year for TOPPING and I’m sure it was their best one yet. TOPPING released two incredible DACs that can fight in the heavyweight category with bigger boys, D70 and DX7 Pro ...

TOPPING D70 DAC Review

If I ask you a few years ago about TOPPING you would raise your shoulders, however, nowadays it is a different picture as this brand also rhymes with good sound quality at very affordable prices. T...