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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 -
WIN! Henry Audio USB 128 mk II DAC worth £159!!!
|We are running a fantastic competition with the opportunity for a lucky reader to win a HenryAudio USB 128 mk II DAC worth £159. Alan Sircom reviewed this innovative DAC in issue 133 of Hi-Fi+. ...read more -
System Feature: Naim Audio NAC-N 272 network preamplifier and ATC SCM40 active floorstanding loudspeakers
|It seems that we live in an age where less (in the way of audio equipment) is seen as more (in the domestic acceptability sense). Linn has been using this approach and has honed almost ...read more -
Computer Audio Design CAD 1543 MKII Digital converter
|When Scott Berry brought me the first incarnation of his CAD DAC, I chided him for only including a USB input and not having a removable mains cable: it seemed like single-minded madness. But the ...read more -
Rockna Wavedream Dac coming soon to the Uk @ BD-Audio
|We are proud to announce our new Wavedream dac series. There are 2 main models : Edition (featuring Rockna RD-1 discrete dac modules) and Signature (featuring Rockna RD-0 discrete dac modules). Each version can be ...read more -
Hi-Fi+ Products of the Year: Digital Audio
|DAC of the Year Joint winner: Nagra HD DAC There are a vast number of excellent DACs on sale at all prices, so it’s hard to justify a high price for a DAC unless that ...read more -
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