AXPONA 2018: Eikon Audio – Gayle Sanders returns…
AXPONA 2018 marks the return of Gayle Sanders with the launch of EIKON Audio. Sanders co-founded Martin Logan in 1982, where he stayed for nearly three decades only to sell [...]
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Liberty DAC for all from Mytek for $995
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 [...]
MQA: A fresh take – why the big labels are converting their catalogs
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 [...]
Oppo announces first step in support for MQA playback
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 [...]
How to build Listening Room Synergy: Curating a system that sings
System synergy — components mating so well that the result exceeds the sum of their parts — is one of the most elusive goals in audio. You know it when you hear [...]
Sonic Studio Announces MQA Support with Amarra Luxe 4.1
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 [...]
RMAF 2017: Sonore Renders Sublime Sound
Streaming. All the cool cats are doing it. However, confession time…I’m a bit lost. I have some pieces of a puzzle but I don’t know how to put them [...]
RMAF 2017: Daedalus, ModWright, WyWires are smooth operators
When does a box look like a subwoofer and woof like a subwoofer, but not really be a subwoofer? When it’s attached to Daedalus Audio’s new Zeus loudspeaker. The [...]
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 [...]
RMAF 2017: The Voice That Is delivers rolling thunder in black and chrome
I foolishly keep thinking that maybe this time Doug White of The Voice That Is will put a foot wrong somewhere, try something out of context for shits, and giggles, but no he [...]