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Richer Sounds To Stock Mojo DAC

Chord Electronics, has joined forces with award-winning hifi, home cinema and TV retail giant Richer Sounds, to make its Mojo DAC/headphone amplifier more accessible than ever before. Richer Sounds, winner of Which? Magazine’s Best Retailer 2015 award, will be introducing Mojo to its enormous retail network in the coming months, following the recent introduction of […]

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MOON’s Nēo ACE – Just Add Speakers

  The Nēo ACE is a complete experience of musical ecstasy” says the company’s latest press release…a bold claim indeed. The ACE is an Integrated Amplifier and Streaming DAC music player meaning you need to simply hook up a pair of speakers, connect to the internet and you are ready to stream your music. Featuring […]

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Computer Audio Design Update CAD 1543 DAC

Computer Audio Design’s USB digital-to-analogue convertor (DAC) has been upgraded. Computer Audio Design has announced a refit to its CAD 1543 DAC, now using proprietary EMI/RFI reduction materials, improved DAC circuit boards, single-crystal UP-OCC internal wiring and refined power supply filtering, to create the CAD 1543 MKII DAC.  CAD is one of a handful of […]

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Audiolab M-DAC+ DAC

Audiolab launches the premium version of the M-DAC this month. The new M-DAC+ will sell alongside the classic M-DAC, sporting a number of enhancements both inside and out in return for an additional £200. Like the M-DAC, the new M-DAC+ is a high-performance, multipurpose audio DAC (Digital-to-Analogue Converter) for home use, designed to sit on […]

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Review – Lampizator Big 7 DAC

At €11000 plus taxes as tested the Lampizator Big 7 is certainly no budget DAC, but does it deliver on sonic ability? Stuart Smith finds out.  “OK, it would be easy to sum up the sound when listening to DSD files as nothing short of an absolute aural revelation that simply took my breath away […]

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Nagra Classic DAC Unveiled At CES 2016

In 2014 Nagra introduced their HD DAC and at CES 2016 they have now launched their Classic DAC, a digital to analogue converter that uses the same input and conversion modules as the older DAC and allows for DSD2x and DXD (384kHz/32-bits). The Classic DAC comes with its own onboard power supply with 25 internal […]

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Mytek Digital’s Brooklyn Now Shipping

Mytek Digital’s “Brooklyn,” Digital-to-Analogue Converter (DAC), linestage, and headphone amplifier is now shipping. (US MSRP $1,995) Says Michał Jurewicz, Founder and President of Mytek Digital: “The Brooklyn DAC is one of the world’s first stand-alone, high-performance DAC with MQA® technology. It’s a new design from the ground up, with a brand new 32bit/384k USB Class2, driverless on […]

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Chord Electronics Taking Dave to CES 2016

Chord Electronics will be showing several of its latest products at CES 2016, including its new reference-level DAC/preamp/headphone amp, DAVE (£7,995). Chord’s main demonstration system will comprise its Reference Series components, plus DAVE (which is the company’s flagship DAC and sits in the Choral range). The system will be complemented by Vienna Acoustics’ flagship loudspeaker, […]

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ADL Stratos – Has It Got It All?

The Stratos combines USB DAC with A/D converter, preamplifier, MC/MM phonostage and headphone amp in one surprisingly small, portable box. Built with the audiophile in mind, it supports PCM playback up to an impressive 32bit / 384kHz and DSD up to 11.2M. If you’re looking to convert your vinyl or other analogue sources to digital, […]

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“Cagey” Bryston To Unveil New Products At CES

Bryston say they have BIG NEWS for CES 2016 but they are keeping decidedly “cagey” about it, saying only that they will be unveiling a new series of products unlike anything the company has introduced in many years. These products will be used in an active demo along with the new BDA-3 DAC. And there […]

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Naim Adds DSD Playback

Naim today released firmware updates to both the Naim DAC (colloquially known as the nDAC) and the DAC-V1. Both DACs have a strong following and demand for DSD playback has been strong from some international markets. The firmware updates add single and double rate DSD to both DACs. This has required some significant additional programming and […]

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New Colours For Cambridge Audio’s DACMagic XS

Cambridge Audio’s DACMagic XS is now available in 4 new colours. The  new red, blue, gold and titanium finishes join the original black model and are available today for £100. Smaller than a matchbox and cased in aluminium, the Digital to Analogue Converter and headphone amplifier “gives your computer audio quality a major boost and […]

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Geek Out V2 Launch

LH Labs via Audiobility are launching their new high-end mini Headphone Amp/DAC in to the UK, the Geek Out V2. This initial launch in the UK over the next few months will be offering a 15% discount via indiegogo with delivery before the holidays. Launch offer starts from $254.00 Geek Out V2 has selectable gain […]

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Chord Electronics Mojo Official Photographs

Of course Hifi Pig covered he launch of Chord Electronics new Mojo live from the Shard on Facebook and Twitter so our readers could be the first people in the world to get information about this product. We also covered the news item as soon as we had the info available, but now we have […]

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New From Quad – Artera Play And Artera Stereo

Quad continues to mark its 79th year with the arrival of Artera, their new range of high-performance audio electronics. First to arrive are the Artera Play and Artera Stereo; the Play is a CD player, DAC and preamplifier combined in a single chassis, while the Stereo is a power amplifier sporting Quad’s famous Current Dumping […]

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New DAC From Bryston

Bryston has announced today the introduction of the BDA-3 digital to analogue converter (DAC), the company’s highest resolution DAC to date. Target MSRP for the BDA-3 is $3495 USD with a delivery date to authorised dealers of November 1st, 2015.  The Bryston BDA-3 is different from prior Bryston DAC’s in that it adds DSD playback. The […]

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Aurender USB to SPDIF Converter

Aurender introduces the new UC100 as an accessory for Aurender Music Server models that only provide a USB digital output. It is a USB Asynchronous Audio 2.0 to SPDIF converter developed to allow for the interface of current (and earlier) Aurender servers N100 / N100H / X100L to DACs that do not provide a USB […]

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Aurender Introduces N10 Caching Music Server/ Player

Aurender introduces the N10 Caching Music Server/Player. Designed to be used with high performance digital-to-analogue converters, the Aurender N10 is the only Music Player to support on-the-fly precision DSD to PCM on SPDIF and AES/EBU outputs with user-selectable choice of 88.2 or 176.4 output sampling rate says the company’s press release so you can enjoy […]

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sOTM sDP-1000EX DAC/Preamplifier

sDP-1000EX from sOTM Audio is a high-end D/A converter and pre-amplifier with a USB audio function which supports DSD playback and has a battery power supply.  USB audio uses an asynchronous mode to connect the digital audio source device such as a PC. It can playback a 32 bit/192KHz PCM signal (maximum) and DSD signal. […]

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Rockna Audio Announce New Wavedream Series DACs

Romanian manufacturer Rockna Audio say they are proud to announce their new Wavedream DAC series. There are 2 main models in the Wavedream series omprising of: Edition (featuring Rockna RD-1 discrete DAC modules) Signature (featuring Rockna RD-0 discrete dac modules). Each version can be ordered in single ended or balanced configuration and In addition to […]

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Lampizator Announce Eufonia DSD Only DAC

Lampizator have announced a new DSD Only DAC called Eufonia. It will cost 1800 Euros plus taxes. The company’s website claims that this signals the death of CD and there will be no more AES/EBU inputs and no more Toslink. The DAC will play normal normal red book CDs as DSD via the computer which […]