digital audio

McIntosh Labs launch new MS500 Music Streamer and MCD600 SACD/CD Player

May 16, 2018 // 3 Comments

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 [...]

Vancouver Audio Festival 2018: Bryston meets with Sonus Faber

May 1, 2018 // 1 Comment

Sonus Faber is an Italian loudspeaker brand with a storied history, and designs which have been lauded as timeless classics. Bryston is an award-winning Canadian [...]

Vancouver Audio Festival 2018: McIntosh Labs and YG Acoustics

April 29, 2018 // 2 Comments

Walking into this room at the Vancouver Audio Festival was a bit like turning the fairy tale Beauty & The Beast into a visual audiophile metaphor. Scoping out the massive [...]

Vancouver Audio Festival 2018: Devialet energizes with Bowers & Wilkins

April 28, 2018 // 1 Comment

Some think they’re beautiful, others feel they emulate what artificial intelligence will look like in the far future. I’m in the former camp, and have always [...]

AXPONA 2018: Sunday morning coming down

April 18, 2018 // 1 Comment

It was dark, and it was cold, and the faint morning light seeping through a crack in the curtains of my hotel room was grey, and did nothing to prompt me to throw them back, [...]

Aqua Hifi to premiere Discrete R2R DAC module for La Voce S3 at AXPONA

April 9, 2018 // 2 Comments

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 [...]

Magnepan 30.7 Demo Event at Hifi Centre

March 17, 2018 // 0 Comments

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 [...]

Periodic Audio introduces Nickel Headphone Amplifier

February 17, 2018 // 0 Comments

Periodic Audio makes a terrific set of inner ear monitors at very reasonable price points. Roger Skoff and I awarded their Be IEMs an Alfie Award at the LA Audio Show. And [...]

MQA: A fresh take – why the big labels are converting their catalogs

January 9, 2018 // 14 Comments

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 of [...]

Tidal offers 12-Days of streaming for free… what are you waiting for?

December 27, 2017 // 6 Comments

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 [...]