Qobuz is My Funny Valentine
Times up, waits over, let the queuing begin! Qobuz (website), the European music streaming service, is finally here and is set to challenge Tidal on its home turf — [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]