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MERGING TECHNOLOGIES AT RMAF 2017
|http://www.merging.com/uploads/assets/packs/NADAC_Marketing_Pack-May_2017.zip Puidoux, September 2017: The MERGING+PLAYER, MERGING+NADAC and MERGING+POWER will be featured in a dedicated room at The Rocky Mountain Audio Festival in Denver. This late decision to take a room at the show was ...read more -
Oppo Digital Sonica DAC
|Many enthusiasts recognise Oppo Digital as a manufacturer of overachieving universal disc players, high performance planar magnetic headphones, and related personal audio electronics. But, over the past year or two, Oppo has begun to explore ...read more -
Audio Research DAC 9 digital converter
|A few years ago, Audio Research began to introduce a series of design changes to both the interior and exterior of its products, starting with the G-Series. The initial development was very much a high-end ...read more -
Benchmark Media Systems DAC3 HGC digital converter
|Benchmark Media Systems is one of the bastions of the new face of audio electronics. Benchmark was and is a pro audio brand at the forefront of the democratisation of the recording industry and audiophiles ...read more -
Weiss Medus DAC
|Weiss has long been at the forefront of digital audio technology. It was the first company I recall making a DAC equipped with a Firewire input for the Mac computers that were used as a ...read more -
dCS announce Vivaldi One digital player
|Editor's Note: The UK press were given an exclusive preview of the dCS Vivaldi One, in the run-up to the Munich High End show, but were under strict embargo not to divulge details until the ...read more -
Bel Canto Design DAC 2.7 DAC and REF600M power amplifiers
|The Bel Canto Design that is celebrating its twenty-fifth anniversary this year is a long way from the original firm founded in 1991. Debuting as a tube amp manufacturer noted for their SET designs Bel ...read more -
Hi-Fi+ Awards 2016: Digital Audio
|DAC of the Year Chord Electronics DAVE Some awards categories were difficult to choose, and notionally that could have applied to the fast-moving and extremely competitive DAC market. In fact, there’s really only one DAC ...read more -
Rockna Wavedream DAC
|Rockna is a Romanian company that started just before the millennium with a pair of monoblock amplifiers, but its founder Nicolae Jitariu is something of a digital wizard. Jitariu has done design work for Goldmund, ...read more -
PS Audio Directstream Jr digital to analogue converter
|Two years ago PS Audio made a bold statement in the DAC world with the release of the universally hailed and much awarded DirectStream DSD DAC. The DirectStream converts all inputs to one-bit DSD and ...read more -
AURALiC ALTAIR wireless streaming DAC
|Hi-Fi+ has covered many AURALiC products in the past, but two enduring favourites would be the VEGA digital audio processor (or DAC/preamp) reviewed in Issue 106 and the ARIES wireless streaming bridge reviewed in Issue ...read more -
Chord Electronics DAVE DAC/headphone amp
|In this review, I’m going to take the unusual step of starting with the negatives first: Dear Chord Electronics, you called it DAVE? Really? Is there some kind of kid’s TV thing going on here ...read more -
dCS Vivaldi 2.0 digital playback system
|The full four-box dCS Vivaldi system embodies what high-end digital audio should be all about. It is complex, beautifully made, endlessly functional through its myriad of connection options and of course, very expensive. Unlike so ...read more -
APL DSD-S digital converter
|Comparatively little known outside its native Bulgaria, APL Hi-Fi, Ltd has actually been around since 1988. The company’s chief designer, Alex Peychev, exploits his decades working in professional and broadcast electronics to create a comprehensive ...read more -
Questyle Golden Reference DAC/preamp/headphone amp system
|Back in Issue 133, we reviewed Questyle’s excellent CMA800R headphone amplifier. At the time, we suggested there would be a follow-up review of a pair of CMA800Rs for balanced operation. But then, an idea was ...read more