Magnetar's $12,000 ULTIMA Ships as a Transport With No DAC
Magnetar debuted its ULTIMA Ultra HD Blu-ray Reference Transport in the US at CEDIA Expo 2026 on 2 September, priced at $12,000 and shipping now. It ships without a DAC or analogue outputs, sending...
Sonos used a 1 September 2026 press event to introduce the $449 Ace Ultra headphones — with a user-replaceable battery, Bluetooth 6.0 and a direct Wi-Fi link to Sonos speakers — alongside the $699/...
KEF announced its first dedicated Outdoor Collection on 1 September 2026, bringing the Uni-Q coaxial driver to landscape satellites and bollard speakers rated IP66 or IPX5 and salt-spray tested bey...
Feliks Audio's Eos Puts a 300B Hybrid Stage Behind Both Headphones and Speakers
Feliks Audio has detailed the Eos, a 300B-based hybrid amplifier the company says is designed to drive demanding dynamic and planar-magnetic headphones as well as suitably matched loudspeakers from...
Fosi Audio Brings a $99.99 Portable CD Player and Two Sub-$150 Debuts to IFA 2026
Fosi Audio is showing four products at IFA 2026 in Berlin from 4 to 8 September: the Carbon12 IEM, the ZH1 desktop DAC/headphone amp, the DISC Nano portable CD player and the already-shipping S3 Li...
Yamaha Replaces the Decade-Old WXA-50 and WXC-50 With the WXA-70A and WXC-70A
Yamaha has announced the WXA-70A streaming amplifier and WXC-70A streaming preamplifier, the first replacements for the 2016-era WXA-50 and WXC-50. Both add an ESS Sabre ES9039Q2M DAC, YPAO room co...