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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 -
RME ADI-2 DAC digital converter/headphone amplifier
|In all honesty, most domestic DACs fall somewhere between ‘inadequate’ and ‘woefully inadequate’ when it comes to telling the world what they are doing. There are exceptions of course – Chord Electronics and its colour-coded ...read more -
Cayin iHA-6 headphone amp, iDAC-6 DAC, and iDAP-6 digital audio player
|If you jumped into an audiophile’s time machine and went back about a year and a half (to late 2016), you might have seen and heard two compact yet very impressive new components from Cayin ...read more -
Exogal Comet DAC and Ion stereo power amplifier
|It’s refreshing to come across a deeply engineered and well-made product that doesn’t arrive with swathes of sales guff to seduce prospective buyers. Exogal is that rare thing; an audio company that is more interested ...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 -
iFi Audio Pro iCAN, Chord Hugo2, Final D8000, and Campfire Andromeda system
|As high-performance personal audio systems have evolved, they have become more specialised. Some focus on top class headphones and electronics intended for use within the relative quiet of one’s home, while others centre on advanced, ...read more -
RME Launch ADI-2 FS at IBC 2018
|London Colney, UK - RME have chosen IBC 2018 to unveil the new RME ADI-2 FS, the latest addition to their range of professional AD/DA converters. A compact and flexible 2-channel AD/DA and format converter, ...read more -
dCS Rossini – MQA updates
|This is the review I was beginning to wonder if I would ever write. Back in 2015 Alan Sircom wrote a very comprehensive take on the then-new dCS Rossini CD/DAC and clock with the thought ...read more -
dCS launches new Bartók upsampling network DAC with headphone amplifier
|From the dCS press release: CAMBRIDGE, UK: dCS proudly announces its Bartók network DAC and headphone amplifier – a singlebox, state-of-the-art digital-to-analogue converter with full network streaming functionality and Class A headphone amplifier. Retailing at ...read more -
Aqua La Scala digital converter
|There are several ways of skinning the proverbial digital rabbit and turning it into a tasty analogue stew. The most popular one is to use a chipset from one of a small number of large-scale ...read more -
Chord Electronics DAVE DAC/SPM 1050 MkII stereo power amplifier
|I think it was Krell that got the ball rolling on heavy duty chassis construction for audio. Many have picked up this ball since the 1980s but no company (in the UK at least) has ...read more -
Sugden Sapphire DAP‑800 preamp and FBA-800 power amplifier
|For just over half a century, for almost as long as there have been transistor amplifiers in fact, there has been Sugden. The company moves to its own beat; it makes amps that don’t follow ...read more -
AURALiC VEGA G2 streaming DAC/preamp
|At the Munich High-End show 2017 AURALiC held a press conference in which the firm announced that it had all new G2 versions of its popular VEGA Digital Audio Processor and ARIES wireless streaming bridge ...read more -
Meridian Audio Ultra DAC digital converter
|Meridian has always had a reputation for thinking outside the box, dating right back to the strikingly original 104 series amps. More recently, Meridian is compatible with MQA, which in case you haven’t heard, rolls ...read more