computer audio

Vancouver Audio Festival 2017: Sonos wants to get you into great sound

July 8, 2017

Sonos had a strong showing at the Vancouver Audio Festival with it’s PLAY:5 speaker system, and the new PLAYBASE television sound base. I’ve seen, and heard the budget-oriented PLAY:1, PLAY:3, and PLAY:5 speakers a number of times, but [...]

Review: BorderPatrol USB Digital to Analogue Converter (SE Version)

April 16, 2017

Good things come in small packages. To be fair, good things come in big packages too. The common denominator is “packages” and I sure like packages. Sometimes, I’ll order something silly (like a pack of pens) from Amazon just so [...]

Review: Roon, Tidal and totaldac – Part Two – delving into Roon

April 6, 2017

This is the second part of a three-part series on living with a computer-based audio system from an analog diehard’s perspective, and how it has changed the way my family, and I listen to music compared to a previously vinyl-only household. In [...]

Audirvana Plus announces MQA integration on Mac OS

March 18, 2017

MQA continues to muscle through the audio world with yet another coup in the digital-audio player market. Audirvana Plus, the well-loved desktop music application for Mac OS has just announced that their latest Plus 3 player includes MQA [...]

Review: PS Audio LAN Rover

March 11, 2017

The PS Audio LAN Rover seems like a weird little device. Well, two devices, actually, but the point stands: weird. Not ‘weird’ as in “ha ha, that’s funny” or ‘weird’ as in “it is beyond natural [...]

Raspberry Pi 3 officially launched!

February 29, 2016

Brand new Raspberry Pi 3 officially launched! [...]

Review: Aurender X100L Music Server

September 19, 2014

by John Grandberg State of the Art It’s a great time for computer-based audio. Just ask Chris Connaker from Computer Audiophile. His site started in 2007 and has grown to become kind of a big deal. It’s funny to read posts like [...]

AXPONA 2014: Auralic Teases

April 30, 2014

Xuanqian Wang and Richard Colburn of Auralic were on hand to show off their Gemini headphone amp/DAC combos. If you haven’t seen them, they’re rather striking — a tall, columnar headphone stand finished in lacquered paint and [...]

Killer Computer Audio: Auraliti PK90

February 14, 2014

by John Grandberg Computer Audio. Do you shudder at the term? Is it a confusing, murky category that you don’t fully understand? Do you read show reports and sense the inevitability, like you had better figure it out sooner than later? As CD [...]

Audiophileo 1 with Pure Power: The Little Combo That Could

September 6, 2013

— by John Grandberg Just how important is the transport in a quality audio system? It’s a deceptively difficult question. Notice I’m asking specifically about transport rather than DAC. If you browse various audio forums [...]