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Chord Electronics Hugo TT 2 DAC/M Scaler upscaler
|As many music lovers know, the legend of Chord Electronics’ Hugo family of products started several years back with the first generation Hugo, which was a wildly overachieving portable headphone amp/DAC that took the marketplace ...read more -
Melco Audio N10 music server and D100 ripper
|This is always going to be a bit of a hard sell, but we should be celebrating that we are in the finest times for music servers and streamers. We have finally – in many ...read more -
Exclusive: Stack Audio Link USB streaming bridge
|Stack Audio is a small British company that does things to sources! It makes a series of clever upgrades for the ever-popular Linn LP12, but recently it turned to the digital side with the Link. ...read more -
The Hi-Fi+ Awards: Personal Audio products of the year
|High-End Headphone of the Year: MrSpeakers VOCE MrSpeakers is led by Dan Clark, a keen-eared headphone enthusiast and an engineer’s engineer. The company takes its name from an earlier phase in Clark’s career where he ...read more -
The Hi-Fi+ Awards: Digital Audio Components of the year
|Disc Player or Transport of the Year: Chord Electronics Blu MkII The CD, we are told, has had its day. Everyone who’s anyone is streaming nowadays and using a format that was first launched in ...read more -
AURALiC VEGA G2 streaming DAC with LEO GX clock
|It can’t be many years since AURALiC’s first cute and curvy ARIES streamer appeared on the market, but since that time the company has created some very interesting digital audio products and last year unveiled ...read more -
The Hi-Fi+ Directory of High-End Audio Manufacturers, 2019
|We’ve selected and showcased the work of 32 of the finest manufacturers in high-end audio in our exclusive guide. Regardless of price, product type, or brand name, we’ve uncovered the most exciting and innovative companies ...read more -
Questyle Audio HB2 hub for QP2R DAP
|The Questyle QP2R (reviewed in Hi-Fi+issue 154) is one of our most valued DAPs (digital audio player) we’ve ever tested. It’s the real deal, covering virtually all the bases in terms of formats, has outstanding ...read more -
Moon Neo MiND streaming UPnP renderer
|The streaming world has all but been cracked, but there are still many audio enthusiasts who have a good, existing system with a range of fine digital products from a previous generation. They have no ...read more -
dCS Network Bridge
|Data Conversion Systems (dCS) is based just outside Cambridge (UK) and has its roots in some of the first analogue to digital converters as used for military applications in the 1980’s. This naturally led to ...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 -
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 -
Digital Sources – A Baker’s Dozen from Munich High End 2016
|The Munich High End show is massive and my assignment(s) this year involved several key product categories, one of which was digital source components. Since I visited nearly 110 different manufacturers over the course of ...read more -
Hi-Fi+ Products of the Year: Ancilliary components
|Accessory of the Year Joint winner: Townshend Seismic Podiums Townshend Audio has been concerned with low-frequency resonance in audio systems for years, but the company’s previous attempts at a ‘fix’ have been difficult for domestic ...read more -
AURALiC ARIES Wireless Streaming Bridge
|After scanning the title of this review article my bet is that your first question might be: ‘What exactly is a wireless streaming bridge?’ The question is perfectly understandable given that the lines of distinction ...read more