Podcast #60 – Flatten your vinyl records w/ Pro-Ject & more

🎥 Camera 1: John Darko
🎥 Camera 2: Srajan Ebaen
🎬 Editor: John Darko
🕺🏻 Motion GFX: John Darko
💰 Ad segment: Jana Dagdagan

In this episode of the Darko.Audio podcast, Srajan Ebaen and I go deeper than the press release into six new products landing in the head-fi and hi-fi spaces: a vinyl flattening device from Pro-Ject, a tube buffer from Musical Fidelity, some luxury closed-back headphones from Meze, a pair of 2-way active standmounts from DMX, a mains filter from Kinki Studio and an SACD transport from Shanling.

Here are the timestamps:

0:00 Intro
0:59 Pro-Ject
8:46 Kinki Studio
20:02 Shanling
29:57 Meze
47:28 Musical Fidelity
55:33 DMAX

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👉 As discussed in this episode…

Pro-Ject Flatten It
📖 https://darko.audio/2025/03/say-buh-bye-to-warped-vinyl-with-pro-jects-flatten-it/

Musical Fidelity X-Tube
📖 https://darko.audio/2025/03/how-to-add-tubes-to-any-dac-streamer-or-cd-player-for-e499/

Shanling Onix Zenith XST20
📖 https://darko.audio/2025/03/the-onix-zenith-xst20-is-a-new-sacd-transport-from-shanling/

Kinki Studio x Vinshine Tai Hang
📖 https://6moons.com/audioreview_articles/tai-hang/

Meze Poet
📖 https://6moons.com/audioreview_articles/meze-poet/

DMAX PH61
📖 https://6moons.com/audioreview_articles/dmax-ph61/

Cables and power products by AudioQuest
🛒 https://audioadvice.io/Audioquest

Hi-fi furniture and speaker stands by Solid Steel
🛒 https://howl.me/ckbW9947Hdi

Room treatment by Vicoustic
📖 https://audioadvice.io/Vicoustic

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