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Chord Hugo TT tabletop DAC/headphone amplifier
|When the Chord Electronics Hugo portable DAC/headphone amplifier arrived on the scene back in 2014, it took the high-end headphone world by storm. The paperback book-sized Hugo was brilliantly conceived, beautifully executed, and bristled with ...read more -
AudioQuest DragonFly Red and DragonFly Black DACs
|AudioQuest has been making the DragonFly portable DAC since 2012. The DAC’s appearance hasn’t changed much, but it’s been through two iterations, and now there are two new models vying for your readies. Up until ...read more -
Moon Neo ACE integrated streaming amplifier
|I’m not even going to resist temptation here. The Moon Neo ACE is audio’s Swiss Army Knife – even though it’s made in Canada. This all-in-one amplifier-meets-media player is on the very cutting edge of ...read more -
Audio Alchemy DDP-1 DAC/preamp, PS-5 power supply, and DPA-1 power amplifier
|Those of us with long audio memories might recall Audio Alchemy. Back in the mid nineties, Audio Alchemy was the main protagonist in providing no-nonsense, low-cost DACs in basic boxes. At a time when DACs ...read more -
Mark Levinson Audio Systems 585 integrated amp and DAC
|What’s more common than high-priced, heavyweight, high-end integrated amps? High-priced, heavyweight, high-end integrated amps that incorporate an internal DAC. You can argue about who was the first to offer a high-end integrated amplifier, aiming to ...read more -
COS D1 digital converter/preamplifier
|If one were to judge this particular book by its cover it would not be hard to come to the conclusion that an awful lot of effort and expense had gone into the casework and ...read more -
Exclusive First Listen – Moon Audio Neo ACE
|I’m not even going to resist temptation here. The Moon Audio Neo ACE is audio’s Swiss Army Knife – even though it’s made in Canada. This all-in-one amplifier-meets-media player is on the very cutting edge ...read more -
iFi Audio Micro iDAC2
|ifi Audio has been on a roll for a while now. The lifestyle arm of Abbingdon Music Research has continued to expand and improve its exciting lineup of price/performance audio champions. The company’s booth at ...read more -
Opera Consonance Reference DSD1.1 digital converter
|Opera Consonance is one of those brands that fly perpetually beneath the audiophile radar for no good reason. It’s a company that makes a range of highly respected, multi award winning products, including analogue and ...read more -
Leema Acoustics Libra DAC
|These are strange times for the digital to analogue converter. Having come back from the edge of extinction, it is no longer sufficient for a DAC to be simply a means of turning your ones ...read more -
Scansonic M-6 BTL Bluetooth-enabled loudspeaker
|It’s important to get the name absolutely correct; it’s a Scansonic M-6 BTL, not a Scansonic M6. The problem is the company makes so many audio products sometimes names blur into one another, and while ...read more -
Lampizator Lite 7 digital converter
|Lampizator is not your average audio electronics company. It’s chief designer Lukasz Fikus is very forthright about what is and isn’t important when it comes to building the best gear. When it comes to the ...read more -
Schiit Audio Yggdrasil DAC and Ragnarok headphone/integrated amplifier
|Schiit Audio is the brainchild of two high-end audio veterans: Jason Stoddard, former design chief of Sumo Electronics, and Mike Moffat, founder of Theta Digital. As you might expect from their company’s unorthodox name (which ...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 -
Henry Audio USB 128 mk II DAC
|The high-end audio world is too bound up by convention. OK, so denouncing the reactionary bourgeoisie is a bit too 1965 for my tastes (and let’s face it, that didn’t work out too well in ...read more