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Web Exclusive: Arcam irDAC digital converter
|We’ve been running very late with some of our more value-led reviews, in part because things that are easy to lift tend to get moved out of the way when hernia-inducing high-end products get hefted ...read more -
iFi Nano iDSD portable DSD DAC/headphone amplifier
|Have you ever wondered what would happen if a high-end audio manufacturer with a reputation for sonic excellence applied itself wholeheartedly to designing affordable electronics for personal audio applications? As it happens, that very question ...read more -
Devialet 250
|I’ve had a Devialet D-Premier more or less since the get-go. Which, on reflection, is only about four years. In that time, it went from being a stylish, thought-provoking piece of audio technology, via genre-bending ...read more -
Chord Electronics Hugo DAC/Headphone amplifier
|Are those people crazy?” asked a high-end audio/headphone enthusiast who had just learned the suggested retail price of Chord’s new Hugo portable DAC/headphone amplifier. “That’s an awfully steep price for a portable.” “It’s certainly not ...read more -
Roksan Oxygene (integrated amplifier / bluetooth DAC)
|Roksan Audio's Oxygene integrated amplifier will anger reactionary audio enthusiasts as a result of it being nothing like an amplifier from a bygone age. It does not have a big, comforting volume knob on the ...read more -
ELAC AIR-X active loudspeaker system
|Along with companies like Audiovector, ELAC has looked to the future of audio and concluded it lies in active loudspeakers driven by small digital hubs. This is known as AIR-X in ELAC parlance. However, although ...read more -
Audioquest Dragonfly v1.2
|We missed out on the first version of the Audioquest Dragonfly DAC, but the game-changing DAC recently saw a simultaneous price drop and upgrade. That makes it all but irresistible. The Dragonfly concept remains the ...read more -
MiZiK dVin phono preamp, dPlay (and dStream) preamplifier
|On the surface, all may be well in the land of audio. OK, prices of top-end equipment are now reaching the stratosphere, but the performance of good high-end equipment of 20 years ago can be ...read more -
Unboxing (of sorts) – HRT Streamer III
|Back in 2009 (which in computer years is like saying ‘back in 1609’), High Resolution Technologies launched its first USB-powered Streamer DAC at an incredibly keen price. This was one of the first dedicated USB-based ...read more -
High Resolution Technologies Stage System
|High Resolution Technologies has made its mark delivering top-class PC-powered DACs and headphone amps that don’t cost a fortune. When the products first appeared in 2009, they represented something of a paradigm shift in audio ...read more -
AURALiC's ARIES Streamer Bridge Endows DACs with Hi-Res Streaming Functions
|AURALiC Debuts the ARIES Streamer Bridge, First Product In Their Lightning Wireless High-Resolution Streaming Solution That Supports Double-Rate DSD, DXD & USB Output to DACs Munich HIGHEND Show, May 15-18, 2014 -- Following AURALiC's CES ...read more -
Show Report: AXPONA 2014 - Digital Audio
|In most cases Hi-Fi+ show reports are presented in prose form with illustrations, but for this section we will take more of an image-intensive ‘Postcards from…’ approach. Thus, this is not an exhaustive report, but ...read more -
Meridian Director DAC
|Meridian Audio is a complex brand. The firm is at once a high-end audio company, a luxury label, and a champion of new audio technology, so it has feet in many camps. Recently, though, Meridian ...read more -
Cambridge Audio Minx Xi
|In the time before it fell under the auspices of Audio Partnership, Cambridge Audio was an audio innovator of note. Back in the early 1980s, Cambridge Audio’s founder Stan Curtis launched the first multi-box CD ...read more -
Peachtree Audio nova125 integrated amplifier/DAC
|Some years ago, Peachtree recognized that a seismic shift in the high-end audio universe was at hand—a shift wherein PCs would step outside of their traditional roles as office tools to become full-fledged digital audio ...read more