I just came across Audio-gd's latest offering, the Sparrow. It's advertised as a portable unit, but... you need to plug it in the mains and it doesn't seem to have a battery. Curious that. Still, I'm already considering it as a simple DAC/Amp to use at work.

There's a curious phenomenon when it comes to collecting classical music: Some works simply seem to collect themselves. In my case the most obvious candidate is Liszt's Piano Sonata in B minor. I know have 14 performances of this work (perhaps more, I may have missed a few) and yet I have never...

As some of you will know, the AKG K500s are available in (at least) two slightly different versions. They are most easily differentiated by the plugs, one of them is the heavy solid metal plug, the other is partly plastic and of the same type also used for the K501. I just bought a second pair...

Just what you needed, right? Another “need advice”-thread. But, although I’ve searched the forums extensively, I haven’t found the answer to my particular ‘problem’: It boils down to this; I need a pair of properly full-sized (circumaural) headphones for when I’m travelling on public...