They are essentially smaller and more affordable versions of the brand's award-winning audiophile loudspeakers.

The FiiO X5 2nd Gen portable high-resolution music player ($349, £289) is an audiophile player, but it's not a high-end design. The Chord Hugo ($2,495, £1,400) looks, feels and sounds way better ...

FiiO is a rising force in the budget-friendly hi-fi space. And while it’s best known for its portable audio players, DACs and ...

As one of my pals recently put it, "I can stop being an audiophile nerd, ... I went "cold turkey" and stopped listening to my high-end audio system for a few weeks in the 1990s.

Here’s how we’d build a complete hi-fi audio system around Q Acoustics’ M40 wireless speakers for under $2,500. Putting together a high-end audio system in 2024 for $2,500 has never been easier and is ...

As one of the most affordable speaker systems at the High End Munich 2024 show, I got to hear two speakers models from the new series. Both sounded excellent with a great sense of stereo sound ...

In the first three installments of the “Audiophile System Builder“, we gave you a plethora of options between $1,000-$5,000 that offer a real taste of high-end audio; systems that wouldn’t ...

Now we have the Audeze MM-100, which aims to take the best of Audeze's audio expertise and condense it down into a wired, open-back pair of high-end headphones that the "regular person" can afford.

They sold Transparent Audio, plus competing MIT and easily 20 more cable brands. They sold uber-high-end dynamic speakers, including Wilson Audio, Bowers & Wilkins, and everything down to Spica, plus ...

Any of the four systems listed above will offer a genuine taste of the high-end and completely alter your perception that one needs to spend more than $10,000 for a great audio system.

Because now we are blessed with high-resolution streaming audio and high-end headphones. It took me about two years to accept high-resolution streaming, but now I am obsessed. Platforms such as Tidal ...