Filed Under: Things that shouldn’t matter Staring at the Innuos Statement (website), a $13,750 dedicated computer audio server, I’m reminded of a long-ago period in the evolution of digital audio. If you’ll cast your thoughts […]
Adventures in … Consolidation? Simplicity. If I have to summarize what I believe we ought to be talking about with “lifestyle audio products”, that’s what I have in mind. Not all-in-one compromises, not tiny speakers […]
“Amphion is focusing more on the lifestyle aspect of their products,” Trevor Fedele said to me as I entered his exhibit room at the 2018 Capital Audiofest. Trevor is part of the sales and marketing […]
Gordon Rankin of Wavelength Audio is no stranger to controversy. He’s the guy that single-handedly brought computer-based audio into the realm of high-fidelity with “asynchronous USB”, and most such products today either use his work […]
Audiophiles like smoothness. Audiophiles don’t like rough edges, bumps or dips in frequency response, falloff in off-axis listening, hot treble, or exaggerated bass. Linear playback without attention being drawn to any particular part of the […]
Binghamton, New York is a very busy place based on the number of announcements that come across my desk regarding McIntosh Labs product launches. The most recent salvo fired across the digital frontier from the […]
For those who’ve followed my path meandering through digital audio, and streaming in particular with Tidal Hi-Fi, the name totaldac might be a familiar one. I’ve been hooked on Vincent Brient’s designs for more than […]
MUNICH. Have you seen the 2005 Academy Award® historical thriller by Steven Spielberg? If you haven’t let me just say it’s intense. I bring it up because if you have been to the High End […]
The 2018 Vancouver Audio Festival (VAF) had a charm about it that most shows lack, and that’s not because AXPONA, or RMAF don’t have style or class, or great people, vendors, and attendees… it’s strictly […]
I love Italy, and I love the sound of older DAC chips, and also R2R ladder DACs, but I’m part Italian so I guess I come by the first part naturally, the second has grown […]
Somnambulists. A lot of them. Walking in circles, and randomly bumping into each other. That’s what the Magnepan 30.7 demo event at Hifi Centre in Vancouver would have looked like if you peeked through the […]
The hits keep coming from McIntosh Labs. Apparently the iconic American high-fidelity company can’t stop itself from launching new products, something you won’t hear any complaints from me about. The latest announcement from the Binghampton, […]
What price would you pay to be free from digital-file type constraint? $2,000? $5,000? $10,000? How about $995 USD? Mytek Digital’s new Liberty DAC can up-convert to 384K/32bit PCM/DSD256 through it’s ES9018 Sabre chipset, its […]
DOWNLOAD YOUR COPY OF OUR BRAND NEW WINTER EDITION HERE If you’re reading this than I’m still alive, and none of my family or friends has tied me up, and left me for dead in a […]
There has been much interest in MQA of late and on some audio forums it seems quite a topic of controversy as well. So I thought I would do some digging on it in advance […]
Donna Summer had many hits in her long, multi-decade career. Her work with Goirgio Moroder in the mid seventies on LPs like Love to Love You Baby – to me – were the progenitors of electronic […]
That ubiquitous spinner known, and loved by many digital-audio junkies (as well as AV-gear heads, and audiophiles alike) – the Oppo UDP-205 – has announced a partnership with music mastering, and hi-fi industry juggernaut MQA […]
Vancouver-area dealer Edward Ku of Element Acoustics is hosting a special one-day seminar this Saturday (tomorrow, Nov. 24th) for those audiophiles interested in digital, or computer audio and how to best approach purchasing, and setting […]
I’ve been a long-term fan of Amarra and the recent massive upgrade to Version 4 has been terrific in both sound and user interface. Sonic Studio has now included MQA support in the Luxe version. […]
Headamp always has their great Blue Hawaii and GS-X amplifiers sounding excellent at RMAF but this year was an introduction of the much more affordable Gilmore Lite 2 at $499 USD. Shipping in a few […]
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