dCS Bartok DAC, Part One | Review
Every once and a while, a product will turn up at the house for review that is so special, it changes what I understand to be possible for an audio component. And let’s [...]
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TotalDAC USB Gigafilter | Review
Digital is dicey Looking at the totalDAC USB Gigafilter, you ask questions. Digital is supposed to be straightforward: ones and zeroes coded as “Hi” and “Lo” voltage [...]
Munich High End 2018: totaldac shows off d1-twelve DAC and new USB GIGAFILTER
For those who’ve followed my path meandering through digital audio, and streaming in particular with Tidal Hi-Fi, the name totaldac might be a familiar one. I’ve [...]
Tidal offers 12-Days of streaming for free… what are you waiting for?
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 [...]
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 [...]
RMAF 2017: iFi Audio Tackles USB 3.0 and Its Noise Gremlins
In the past, I have loved the iFi Audio gear for my computer audio playback system. Everything I have tried has worked well and, maybe best of all, the individual pieces [...]
AudioQuest shipping Beetle Optical DAC with Asynchronous USB/Bluetooth
AudioQuest has the Beetle DAC page live on it’s website, and is taking orders, and shipping them out… which means… WELCOME TO THE FUTURE. For those not in [...]
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 [...]
Border Patrol SE DAC Review | Zero Frippery
Looking at the Border Patrol SE DAC, you have to smile. It’s cute! Can you even say that about at kick-ass piece of audio gear? Maybe it’s disrespectful. Too bad [...]
AudioQuest and the holistic cabling approach to reference reviews
Reviewing high-fidelity audio equipment is fraught with peril, and snake pits. Gauging relative sound quality (and writing about it) when inserting a component into an [...]
