dCS brings on MQA
dCS products age like a fine wine, getting better over the years as the dCS team adds a flurry of new capabilities to keep their products fresh and current. Most of these [...]
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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 [...]
MQA: A Canvas of The Future
by Eric Franklin Shook Sometimes paranoia is having all the facts. In the hierarchy of arts, writers are classed a smidge below clowns and a little above trained seals. So [...]
CES 2017: TIDAL Masters brings MQA
A juicy tasting of MQA was experienced at T.H.E Show @ Newport on a Meridian Ultra DAC, and ever since we have anxiously awaited the arrival of more MQA content. The day [...]
Newport 2016: Meridian DSP 7200 Special Edition and MQA
There’s something to be said for 240 lbs of digital-active loudspeakers (analog gain & filtering featuring proprietary Meridian Class-A discrete amplification – [...]
Newport 2016: Sunny’s Audio Video brings Meridian, MQA, Audio Research, Wilson Audio, Audioquest, & HRS
A day prior to the start of THE Show Newport, Meridian announced their new Reference Meridian Ultra DAC that caught my attention. Looking at the spec sheet- a dedicated [...]
High End 2016: Here we go
Scot is flying towards Munich; I will be doing the same at dawn. I hate flying that early and would do it for one reason only. It’s that time of the year. The biggest [...]
Vancouver 2015: Element Acoustics presents Acapella
by Rafe Arnott Some hi-fi gear just looks the business. You know what I mean? The Focal Grande Utopia loudspeaker, the Da Vinci Gold AAS-Gabriel turntable, the Kondo Ongaku [...]
High End 2015: Meridian and MQA
Because he’s vastly more organized than I am, Panagiotis scheduled and then dragged us to a series of briefings on Day One, both of us stumbling around on a distinct lack [...]
NYIAS 2015: Jaguar with Meridian
In eyes of teen-me, the Jaguar XJS was pretty much the greatest car ever made. The whole 12-cylinder engine thing was awesome and all, but it was the visual — all those [...]