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FiiO M15S Digital Audio Player

FiiO M15S

Hi-Res Portable Digital Audio Player

Auralic Altair G1.1
The Auralic Altair G1.1 is a true heavyweight among streamers and USB DACs – and that also refers to its sound quality. Chinese company Auralic is already an old hand in the digital audio business. It was founded in 2009...
Mission 700
Up until the 1980s, it was easy to identify the speakers of a particular brand from afar in the dealer’s display window due to their design. Mission, along with its sister brand Wharfedale, has now taken advantage of this and...
Bassocontinuo Zen Line Itabashi 3.0
Sonic performance or stylish living space friendliness? With the Zen Line, Bassocontinuo provides a bold answer to this age-old high-ender question: both! “Technical Furniture” – in principle, you could readily use the term Bassocontinuo uses to describe the Zen Line...
Phasemation PP-500 and EA-320
Phasemation knows how to use synergy to make the black gold shine. One could almost get the impression that the engineers at Phasemation in Yokohama, Japan, are bubbling over with ideas and new developments, considering the wealth of components that...
Loudspeaker Phenomena
A good hi-fi system reproduces an incredible amount of detail: a ringing here, a deep impulse there. But sometimes, what’s missing is even more decisive for our perception of tonality and imaging. Sometimes our senses need a jump start in...
FIDELITY visit to 1210berlin
Everything revolves around the legendary Technics turntable at 1210berlin. It’s easy to miss the inconspicuous store window in Berlin’s Reuterkiez district, a corner in the north of Neukölln where luxury renovations and housing decay are often just a block apart....
The Course Is Set
Lightning could reach the Earth much quicker if it wouldn’t zigzag so much. Fickle creatures, those music playback systems. Not only do they refuse to play nice depending on the day’s mood, but their long-term consistency also leaves a lot...
Visit to Dan D'Agostino in Cave Creek, USA
Hamburg-based distributor Audio Reference invited us to a meeting with Daryl Wilson and Dan D’Agostino in December. This is the second part of our journey through the “Wild West” of the USA. After our visit in Provo, we traveled via...
Fernande Decruck - Concertante Works
She studied in Paris with Marcel Dupré and counted Olivier Messiaen among her own students. She gave organ concerts in the United States, lived there for about a decade, became a member of ASCAP, and later taught harmony in Toulouse....
Jutta Hipp
There was nothing ordinary about Jutta Hipp, from the fact that she was the only white European woman signed to Blue Note Records in the 1950s to the fact that, six years after that signing, she dropped out of the...
Interview with Richard Kruspe
With Rammstein, he plays guitar flanked by flamethrowers. With his solo project Emigrate, however, Richard Kruspe concentrates entirely on the music. The Persistence Of Memory is the band’s fourth album. In this interview with FIDELITY, Kruspe talks about the sound...
Keith Jarrett vs Will C.
Covering normally refers to songs being performed by other artists, but actual album covers attract their share of impersonators, too. The covered cover: Is it a witty reference, respectful homage or parody? Or is there a deeper meaning behind it?...
Gold Note Vasari Shibata
Gold Note is happy to announce the release of a new member of the Vasari cartridges family, the Vasari Shibata. The new Gold Note Vasari Shibata MM cartridge features a peculiar shape of the stylus. The Shibata stylus was designed,...
AXPONA 2023 Top Ten Experiences
Shop the latest products, enjoy live concerts, partake in compelling seminars, tastings and more. AXPONA (Audio Expo North America) will return for the 12th edition, April 14-16. Audiophiles, music lovers, musicians and collectors will unite at the Renaissance Schaumburg Hotel...
Silent Angel Rhein Z1 Plus
Stream Music Like Never Before with the Z1 Plus. Experience superior high-resolution music streaming with the Silent Angel Rhein Z1 Plus. This versatile music server delivers exceptional digital audio playback with support for DSD512 and PCM up to 768KHz. With...
Audiovector Storyvideo
If you use only traditional engineering principles, you get a traditional product. – Ole Klifoth, Founder Audiovector For more than 40 years, Audiovector Speakers have been designed, developed and handcrafted in Denmark. In a new video, Ole Klifoth, founder, and...