MQA and Deezer announce partnership
Even though it’s Labour Day around the world, and we’re all supposed to be doing our level best to avoid work like the plague, I felt compelled to bring you news [...]
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Devialet unveils partnership for TV audio hardware with UK giant Sky
The French wunderkind of advancing digital amplification is at it again. Devialet is getting into television audio in a big way. Having smashed into the audiophile world [...]
LA Audio Show 2017: Elite Audio Systems create space with Viola Audio Labs, Kharma and Linn
Elite Audio Systems out of San Francisco, California created a very unique, and Zen-like listening space at the Los Angeles Audio Show. They had put up a large [...]
High End 2017: dCS celebrates their 30th Anniversary with the Limited Edition Vivaldi One
dCS is celebrating their 30th Anniversary (1987-2017) and are bringing some surprises across their model line at the High End Munich 2017 show. First, allow us to [...]
MQA update for AudioQuest Dragonfly Black and Red coming May 17 – new partnerships announced
The MQA freight train keeps rolling down the tracks of high-fidelity seemingly without resistance. A press release just announced that portable USB DAC wünderkind AudioQuest [...]
Review: Roon, Tidal and totaldac – Part Two – delving into Roon
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 [...]
Pass Labs and DeVore Fidelity arrive for review
Some equipment just speaks your language. Pass Labs designs have always been a favourite of mine on the audio-show circuit. They construct incredibly [...]
Audirvana Plus announces MQA integration on Mac OS
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 [...]
Update: Roon Labs release major update with version 1.3
Nine months in the making, Roon 1.3 goes live today with major upgrades, and additions under the hood of the digital audio player, and represents a milestone for what [...]
Newport 2016: A New Hope for High Fidelity
The young, Rockabilly-esque couple sat down about 20 feet away from Brian Hunter and I as we both sat together writing in the bar seating area of the Hotel Irvine’s [...]