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Antelope Audio Zodiac Platinum DSD DAC/Headphone Amp Review
If the Top Trumps company were looking for a new subject for their immortal card based shenanigans, they could do worse than look at DACs. Not only are there enough of them to make a satisfying pack of...
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McIntosh MCD550 Review… CD is Gratefully not dead!
Everyone has an opinion on McIntosh, certainly that’s the feeling I get when chatting to people at shows and reading the forums here. Most people comment on the styling, some comment on the price (it...
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Pimp my Laptop! Chord’s Hugo does it’s thang.
Hugo! Sounds like a man in red chords and yellow socks to me, perhaps with a brightly coloured sweater over his shoulders and a pair of Wayfairers on his head. But hey, deck shoes and Tattinger are not...
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Modwright Elyse DAC Review
For a company that started out nearly fifteen years ago providing modifications to digital equipment, Modwright’s first standalone DAC has had a long gestation. Still if something’s worth doing, it’s...
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Chord Mojo DAC/Headphone amp review
Whether we like it or not, the shape of audio equipment is slowly but inexorably starting to change. Freed from the need to accommodate physical media and with the analogue preamp being challenged by...
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Nu Force Primo 8, high end in-ear speaker system..
An in ear speaker system, what kind of bunkham is this? It sounds like the marketing department have had their way. In the same way one might call a haircut a “head re-shaping”. But no, it turns out...
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A portable DAC for
As some of you may remember, I reviewed the Chord Hugo about a year ago. This was my my first adventure with DSD files, and portable DACs. The idea seemed a little odd to me, but having now lived with...
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Leema Libra DAC Review
Companies that produce digital products very crudely break down into three categories. There are those that buy the chipset of their choice and implement it in an off the shelf configuration. Then...
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SW1X Audio Design DAC 1 Signature – a Review by Kevin Fiske
It is a rare thing indeed to witness the hatching of a new and enduring British high end audio brand. I hope, really hope, that this what we are seeing in the first flutterings of SW1X Audio Design of...
View ArticleNext-generation Hugo 2 revolutionises Chord Electronics’ game-changing debut...
Hugo 2 adds new features, state-of-the-art performance, plus an all-new chassis design 5th January 2017, CES, Las Vegas: Chord Electronics has unveiled Hugo 2, a dramatically redesigned version of its...
View ArticleCambridge Audio Azur 651BD-B Review
What is it? Essentially a Blu Ray player, which supports 3D.. but it’s oh so much more. It also plays DVD’s DVD Audio, Super Audio CD’s and HDCD’s. There are a few of the more exotic BD formats, such...
View ArticleThe JK DAC 32 Review
What is it? A battery powered (re-chargeable) USB to Analogue output DAC/Sound card for a PCor MAC. It comes with a USB cable to charge the internal batteries, so can be left powered up, or run...
View ArticleDSPeaker Anti-Mode 2.0 Dual Core Review
Automated room correction system Normally when approaching a new piece of kit, one has a reasonable idea of the scale of the difference one might expect to hear. With speakers the potential scale of...
View ArticleCambridge Audio – Stream Magic Review
This is a good sounding yet slightly clunky device and to be brutally honest I’ve avoided publishing my review of this bit of kit for some time. When it first arrived it was actually the first bit of...
View ArticleJolida Fusion DAC & Transport (CD player) Review
“It’s not a CD player! It’s a DAC with a built in transport” “So it plays CDs then?” “Yes” “Like a CD player!” “Well, yes, but it has digital inputs, lots of them” “Like a CD player with digital...
View ArticleAudio Note DAC 2.1x/II Balanced Review
Until recently, I have been blissfully happy with my trusty old Victor XP-DA999 DAC, preferring it to the dCS Ring DAC, and even to vinyl in my system. That was until I lugged the Victor over to...
View ArticleJolida Glass FX II DAC Review
After their strong showing at the Scalford show this year I hope some of you will now be familiar with Jolida . Also my rave review of the Fusion CD player may have raised them up your flag pole so to...
View ArticleComputer Audio Design CAD1543 DAC Review
My first review for the ‘wam puts me scarily close to breaking a personal rule of mine. When I’m approached by someone who has effectively brought a product to market single handed, I’m always nervous...
View ArticleSonneteer Byron CD Player Review
All the technical details can wait. Eleanor Rigby from the Beatles’ Love album has just started and we need to talk about the sound – Now! Anyone familiar with George Martin’s re-engineering of the...
View ArticleAudio Glu Music Server Review
Why? My PC has a 1TB hard drive and a large library of music ripped onto it. Probably >800 CD’s ripped so far. Not as many as some I’m sure, but still it’s a fair amount of FLAC. An ideal music...
View ArticleJolida Glass FX Tube Dac III
After finally getting around to ripping my CD collection it seems that 2013 has been the year that I started to seriously look at some standalone DAC options and try and see what separates one from...
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