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 [...]
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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: BorderPatrol USB Digital to Analogue Converter (SE Version)
Good things come in small packages. To be fair, good things come in big packages too. The common denominator is “packages” and I sure like packages. Sometimes, [...]
Review: PS Audio LAN Rover
The PS Audio LAN Rover seems like a weird little device. Well, two devices, actually, but the point stands: weird. Not ‘weird’ as in “ha ha, that’s [...]
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 [...]
Classé announces Sigma SSP MkII preamp: Dolby Atmos, DTS:X and upgraded HDMI
Canadian amplification legend Classé has announced some serious upgrades to the multi-talented eight-channel surround preamplifier Sigma SSP, now in MK II guise. I’ve [...]
Dual turntables hits back with 3 budget decks in the UK for 2017
Who had a Dual turntable? C’mon, put up your arm. My left one is raised while I type with just my right hand. It wasn’t my Dual turntable per se… I was a [...]
RMAF 2015: iFi, you Fi, we all Fi
iFi-Audio has been slowly but surely consuming all of the air in the affordable high-end audio market — or, at least, making a damn good attempt at it. We’ve [...]
Super Duper Geek Out Arrives!
Guess what showed this week? My Kickstarter Green headphone awesomifier! I ordered the 1 watt output version, so that makes this a Super-Duper Geek Out. I’m super-duper [...]
Follow up: the Audiophile Desktop from CEntrance and the Masterclass 2504
Rememeber the Audiophile Desktop from CEntrance? Let me refresh your memory. $2,000 gets you a CEntrance DACmini PX, a pair of Masterclass 2504 speakers, and a hefty Pelican [...]