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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 -
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