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Headroom Show 2016
|Now in its second year, the Headroom show ran at the end of January at the Metropolis Studios in Chiswick, West London. With almost every exhibitor at last year’s show turning up again for this ...read more -
Optoma NuForce DAC80 DAC and STA120 power amplifier
|A few short years ago, NuForce was the audio industry’s enfant terrible: a new brand, growing at an exponential rate, with some of the best products in every category it touched. It couldn’t last, and ...read more -
Computer Audio Design 1543 MKII DAC
|The world’s finest dedicated USB digital-to-analogue convertor has been upgraded. Computer Audio Design has announced a refit to its unique CAD 1543 DAC, now using proprietary EMI/RFI reduction materials, improved DAC circuit boards, single-crystal UP-OCC ...read more -
Wadia 321 Digital Converter
|Wadia was one of the first companies to make a decent CD player back in the early nineties. It achieved this by identifying that jitter was a major source of problem for digital audio, a ...read more -
Merging NADAC digital converter
|Merging might not be one of those names that trips off the audiophile tongue, but if you scratch the surface, this Swiss company has one heck of a pedigree. The company is extremely well known ...read more -
Benchmark Media Systems DAC2 HGC digital converter
|Benchmark was the brand that introduced the first serious small scale digital to analogue converter. Before the original DAC1, most converters were either full width or not taken seriously. All that has changed with a ...read more -
Melco/Exogal/Vitus/Estelon system
|As a reviewer I crave change and am always expecting to hear something that just might tell a different musical story. It’s even more intriguing when it comes with solid recommendations and takes the shape ...read more -
Moon Evolution 780D digital converter/network streamer
|We keep beginning these reviews of state-of-the-art digital products with variations on the theme of ‘how the digital world is changing’ for a reason: it IS changing. Moon’s prestigious Evolution range is perfectly indicative of ...read more -
PS Audio Yale OS firmware for the DirectStream DAC
|Have you ever purchased an audio product only to learn that the manufacturer had released a new, improved, and upgraded version of your new baby only a few short months after you plunked down your ...read more -
Metrum Acoustics Pavane DAC
|Metrum has always done things a bit differently. For a start, all its products are NOS (non oversampling) types, which removes a stage of filtering, and they all have ladder DACs built with discrete components ...read more -
What a week!
|No, not the Queen becoming the longest serving English monarch, or the election of left-field, left-winger Jeremy Corbyn to the post of Leader of the Labour Party out of almost nowhere, we're talking audio here. ...read more -
WIN! LH Labs Geek Out V2 USB Headphone Amp/DAC worth $299 must be won!!!
|HiFi+ has teamed up with the good folks at LH Labs to give away one of the company’s excellent Geek Out V2 USB Headphone Amp/DACs, worth $299. The Geek Out V2 was reviewed in issue ...read more -
NADAC DISTRIBUTION IN EUROPE Merging Technologies announces key European appointments
|Puidoux, Switzerland. August 2015: The appearance of Merging’s NADAC (Network Attached DAC) at the High End Show in Munich created quite a stir and attracted interest from distributors of high end audio products worldwide. As ...read more -
Hi-Fi+ visits the Schiit Show
|There are perhaps no bigger fans of feisty, puckish humour in all of high-end audio than Jason Stoddard and Mike Moffat, co-founders of the Valencia, California-based firm Schiit Audio. Yes, that really is the company’s ...read more -
PS Audio PerfectWave disc transport/DirectStream DAC (with Pikes Peak OS)
|Not so long ago the Boulder, Colorado-based firm PS Audio touted its PCM-focused PerfectWave DAC and matching PerfectWave Transport as its premier digital audio products, but all that changed with the arrival of the firm’s ...read more