How stories are sourced
Where Pocket Fidelity's news comes from, how it's checked, and what the labels mean.
Last updated 30 Oct 2026
Every story starts with a source and ends with a list of them, so you can check the facts yourself. This page explains how that works.
Finding the news
Portable audio news is scattered across brand sites and stores, retailers’ new-arrivals pages, Bluetooth SIG listings, forums (Head-Fi, Audio Science Review, erji.net), Reddit, Google News and alerts, brand YouTube channels and English-language audio sites. Many launches are announced in Chinese or Japanese first.
I use software and AI tools for research: watching those sources, collecting news and leaks from international outlets across the web, and translating them. The original is always linked.
Checking it
- I check every story against its original sources before it’s published, and I decide what’s news and what isn’t. Nothing is published automatically.
- Any quote, spec, price or date that can’t be traced to a published original doesn’t go in. AI tools are never treated as a source.
- If something turns out to be old news, it isn’t published.
Sound
I won’t describe how a product sounds unless I’ve listened to it myself, and the story will say so. Anyone else’s impressions are credited to them.
Images
Product images come from the brand’s own website or press materials and are credited under each one, never from shops or other outlets. Any image a brand asks me to remove comes down.
Sources
Every story ends with a numbered list of sources, linking to the original rather than to someone else’s write-up whenever possible.
- Official sources (a brand’s own site, press release or store listing) are marked “Official”.
- First reported by: when another outlet or a forum had the story first, the story says so and links to them.
- Where possible, each source shows its language and date, plus an archived copy of posts likely to vanish, such as social media posts and store listings.
- Brand claims are attributed. “The brand says the battery lasts 12 hours” rather than “the battery lasts 12 hours”.
Labels
Every story has a label so you know how solid it is:
- News: confirmed news, usually from the brand itself.
- Teaser: shown or announced by the brand, with details still missing.
- Leak: not confirmed by the brand. Leaks are marked with a dashed border, and the story says where the leak came from and, where possible, how reliable that source has been.
- Filing: spotted in a certification or regulatory listing, such as Bluetooth SIG or FCC.
- Firmware and Price: software updates and price changes.
- First in English: I couldn’t find the story in English anywhere else when it was published.
Times and updates
All times are Sydney time. When a story changes in a way that matters, such as a new price or a corrected fact, it shows an “Updated” time and a note saying what changed. Mistakes are fixed and listed on the corrections page.
Questions
If something here isn’t clear, or you think a story fell short of it, email hello@pocketfidelity.com.