Acclaimed British sound engineer/producer Dom Morley who has worked with artists such as Adele, Sting, Jeff Beck, The Police, Amy Winehouse, Mark Ronson, Grinderman, Jet, The Verve, Live8, Morrissey and Underworld, has chosen Hugo 2 as his go-to DAC and headphone amp for his professional audio engineering work, stating it, “sounds as good as everything […]
In recent years, more and more music lovers have taken to using computers as their primary audio source. These are often connected to audio gear via USB, the universal interface that enables digital data to pass from one piece of hardware to another.
In 2016, Audio Analogue celebrated its twentieth birthday with a handful of brand new ‘Anniversary’ editions of the company’s earlier classic amplifiers. Then, in 2018, the brand launched its ‘PureAA’ line of products, drawing key ideas from the Anniversary amps and adding further features.
The Bristol Hifi Show is, without doubt, one of the highlights of the Hifi calendar and is VERY popular with industry folk as well as visitors, with a long line of people queuing to get in when we arrived around twenty minutes before doors opening on the Friday. It’s a difficult show for us to […]
Auralic has established a world-wide reputation for their streaming products and is partnering Spendor for the fourth successive year at the show.
Rupert Neve Designs, one of the world’s most famous names in the recording studio, introduced Fidelice, a new product range for the high-fidelity audio market, last year.
Chord Electronics has announced 2go, a high-performance streamer/server designed to transform Hugo 2 into a fully featured Wi-Fi- and Ethernet-enabled device, bringing the proven sound quality benefits of the company’s proprietary DAC technology to network audio; 2go will make its world debut at CanJam New York (15/16th Feb.), followed by its European debut at The […]
We have been following this emerging French company since we met them on the Newcomers stand at High End Munich a few years ago. Following on from their high end Reference range they are now introducing a second product line.
HIFIMAN has announced the new DEVA, a high-fidelity open-back planar magnetic headphone that is available with a Bluetooth/USB dongle for wirelessly streaming true high-res audio.
iFi has added to its range of portable DAC/headphone amps with an all-new design, the hip-dac.
If you’re looking at getting the best quality from your music streaming system and have in excess of £20,000 to invest in your front end, this evening could well be a good start for you to audition some of the High End music streamer/dacs available on the market.
To mark the end of its 30th-anniversary year and celebrate the company’s 1989 debut into the pro audio world, Chord Electronics has teamed up with fellow pro audio (and 30-year-strong) in-ear monitor brand, Empire Ears, to offer new customers the chance to win a pair of ESR universal IEMs worth £750.
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Fresh out of Florence, Gold Note’s new Streamer/DAC aims to bring versatility and sophistication to your digital setup. John Scott sets out to see if it succeeds in this, the first English language review of this product.
Silbatone Acoustics have launched their “most affordable DAC to date”, the DA-107.
McIntosh has announced that two more of its DAC equipped products have received Roon Tested designation from Roon Labs: the C53 Solid State Preamplifier and the C2700 Vacuum Tube Preamplifier, bringing the total number to 14. This coincides with Roon 1.7 ‘Valence’ launching.