Articles
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Chord Electronics’ Poly streamer turns the smartphone into a hi-fi-quality music player
|19th October 2017, Kent: British high-performance audio specialist, Chord Electronics, is empowering smartphones as hi-fi-quality music players with the launch of Poly, an advanced streamer that combines with Mojo to wirelessly stream music from a ...read more -
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 -
Hegel and Chartwell system
|Some systems here are easy recommendations, because they are the output of a single brand. Others are more a reflection of listening tests along the way. This one is slightly different. It’s taking two known ...read more -
Linn Products Klimax system
|In a world filled with complete audio systems, Linn’s latest range-topper is perhaps the most ‘systemic’ of them all. The Klimax system does not have a high degree of mix-and-match potential; the streamer feeds the ...read more -
Moon's Neo ACE – success is not the only reward
|Moon's Neo ACE integrated streaming amplifier is a profoundly good product, a true audio Swiss Army knife with extensive digital and analogue functionality that makes it the one-box does-it-all amplifier of the moment. We thought ...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 -
McIntosh Labs MB50 streaming audio player
|McIntosh is something of a law unto itself in audio. Few companies share McIntosh’s fan base, which have been fanatically loyal to the brand for decades, to the point where faced with the choice of ...read more -
Munich High-End 2017: Final Thoughts and Product of the Show!
|As is often said – including by myself – Munich High-End has become the most important event on the audio calendar. This is not simply because of the attendance figures (even if they are continuing ...read more -
AURALiC POLARIS wireless streaming integrated amplifier
|AURALiC titles its new POLARIS convergence device a ‘Wireless Streaming Amplifier’, which is shorthand for a wireless Roon-ready PCM/DSD streaming DAC with moving magnet phono preamplifier integrated amplifier. It can also be purchased with 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 -
Hegel Röst integrated system amplifier
|Hegel Music Systems has come up against the Law of Unintended Consequences with its new Röst integrated amplifier. The flexible, easily networkable, white-fronted integrated amplifier came as a result of direct requests from the iChummy ...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