CanJam SoCal 2016: Chord Electronics DAVE, TT and Mojo
Chord Electronics has offered what may well be the greatest headphone DAC/amp combo ever — and they call it DAVE. You can queue the 2001: A Space Odyssey music at any point. Shown here with […]
Chord Electronics has offered what may well be the greatest headphone DAC/amp combo ever — and they call it DAVE. You can queue the 2001: A Space Odyssey music at any point. Shown here with […]
2015 is over, much to my shock and chagrin. Honestly, I’m not quite sure how it happened. No. Seriously. I kinda feel like I’m Rick Grimes; I just woke up, everyone is gone, and WTF […]
DACs have been hot for a few years now and the rate of improvement seems to be at least constant, if not actually improving. Apart from the conversion methods themselves (commercial DAC chips), obscure chipsets from non-audio […]
by John Grandberg The proliferation of really-high-end headphones is undeniable. Back in the day, a $500 headphone was considered expensive, and the few thousand-dollar-plus models in existence were typically limited-edition rarities. Nowadays? Not so much. […]
by John Grandberg Chord comes out of left field with a portable DAC/headphone amp to challenge the best of the best. Do they succeed? In sound quality — yes! In other areas … not so much. […]
Munich saw the introduction of our Hallowed and Illustrious Computer Overlords. All hail. Oh, and his name is Dave. Hi, Dave! I’ll admit to a moment of inappropriate laughter (yes, that was me) when the […]
by Amos Barnett “Have you heard the Aurender Flow yet?” “The who and what?” That was how the conversation went as we headed towards the Emilie offices in Tokyo for an evening of pizza and […]
By Lee Shelly Schiit Audio The first stop I made (pre- show!), was to the Schiit booth. When I got there, Jason Stoddard was fighting with his flagship system … no sound was coming out … […]
Before, after and during. That’s when I heave out the long sigh. An audio show — any audio show — wrings that out of me. But this year, CES was … different. Whinging For me, […]
It was the best of times. It was the not-best-of-times. But whatever it was, and wherever it lies on the Arc of Interesting, 2014 saw some pretty amazing stuff and some truly inspiring stories, and […]
Brannan Mason, the public facing half of Noble Audio, brought a set of Chord Electronics‘ Hugo DACs to the party at CanMania for use with his company’s outstanding in-ear monitors. The Hugo, a battery-driven, USB-connected device, […]
SoCal dealer Brooks Berdan was showing off some very fancy electronics at Newport this year, and when I turned the corner and saw the recently reviewed $30k Direct Drive Signature turntable from VPI and Light Harmonic‘s $31k Dual DAC, I […]
By Dr. Panagiotis Karavitis If you are somewhat attracted to the “monitor” sound, preferably the one that comes from a consumer line of products created by companies with close relationships to the pro world, then […]
I’m not going to CES this year. Sorry. Couldn’t do it. It’s not that I didn’t want to go. I did (God help me), and still do! It’s a lot of fun, there’s a ton of new […]
Dave Lalin, New Jersey’s Audio Doctor, was here at NYAV12 showing all manner of things. Depending on how you count, this was the second room (with the Scaena room being first) and this one was […]
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