Articles
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AURALiC VEGA G2 streaming DAC with LEO GX clock
|It can’t be many years since AURALiC’s first cute and curvy ARIES streamer appeared on the market, but since that time the company has created some very interesting digital audio products and last year unveiled ...read more -
The Hi-Fi+ Directory of High-End Audio Manufacturers, 2019
|We’ve selected and showcased the work of 32 of the finest manufacturers in high-end audio in our exclusive guide. Regardless of price, product type, or brand name, we’ve uncovered the most exciting and innovative companies ...read more -
Rotel T14 tuner/streamer
|Stop me if I’m being presumptuous but I suspect that most of the readers of this august journal can remember a time when the only way to listen to music without paying for it was ...read more -
Linn Selekt DSM digital streaming platform
|Editor’s note: In the weeks between encountering the Linn Selekt DSM and today, some of my opinions have changed. They are included in an addendum at the bottom of this review. In the network streaming ...read more -
FiiO X7 Mk II Digital Audio Player
|FiiO is an approximately 10 year-old Chinese firm that enjoys a reputation for building high performance, high technology, and high value personal audio products. No wonder the company’s whimsical slogan, which translates only imperfectly into ...read more -
RIVA Festival wireless loudspeaker
|Riva has had a phenomenal success rate. In a remarkably short time, the company has had hit after hit, first with its highly portable Turbo models (we tested the Turbo X in Issue 133) and ...read more -
dCS Rossini – MQA updates
|This is the review I was beginning to wonder if I would ever write. Back in 2015 Alan Sircom wrote a very comprehensive take on the then-new dCS Rossini CD/DAC and clock with the thought ...read more -
Questyle Audio HB2 hub for QP2R DAP
|The Questyle QP2R (reviewed in Hi-Fi+issue 154) is one of our most valued DAPs (digital audio player) we’ve ever tested. It’s the real deal, covering virtually all the bases in terms of formats, has outstanding ...read more -
Roon Nucleus+ music server
|Streamed music always seemed to me like a great idea, but one that, over the years, I have had begun to have serious doubts about. I know that, in many households, music has been somewhat ...read more -
Echobox Explorer Digital Audio Player
|Remember when your mobile phone was actually only a telephone? Can you still vaguely recollect life before texting, GPS location, and the never ending army of apps dictating your day to day events? Looking back ...read more -
Astell&Kern KANN portable, streaming high-resolution digital audio player
|Reflecting back on the development of personal products over the past six years, it might be fair to say that the firm Astell&Kern almost single-handedly invented the portable, high-resolution digital audio player (DAP) product category. ...read more -
AURALiC VEGA G2 streaming DAC/preamp
|At the Munich High-End show 2017 AURALiC held a press conference in which the firm announced that it had all new G2 versions of its popular VEGA Digital Audio Processor and ARIES wireless streaming bridge ...read more -
Cary Audio DMS-500 music streamer
|The last time I had a Cary Audio product in the system it was a valve amplifier. Cary still builds a lot of valve designs to this day, but the North Carolina-based company also makes ...read more -
Moon Neo MiND streaming UPnP renderer
|The streaming world has all but been cracked, but there are still many audio enthusiasts who have a good, existing system with a range of fine digital products from a previous generation. They have no ...read more -
Innuos ZENith SE Mk II music server
|Noise. That’s what’s wrong with digital audio reproduction. Yet how could this be? CD introduced the silent background, the hiss free ‘inky blackness’ that allowed the music to stand out. But it didn’t... it just ...read more