Custom Cable, UK based reseller of headphones, cables and accessories, is launching the Resonessence Herus personal headphone DAC. Small on form factor, at just 63mm long, 32mm wide and 19mm high, the Herus has Asynchronous USB Audio 2.0, DXD and DSD capabilities. Designed and manufactured by Resonessence in Canada, Herus is crafted from a solid […]
Forming part of the bijou Chordette range, the new Qute EX adds a new chipset and circuit board which enables decoding at up to 384kHz PCM and DSD 128 over USB (against the QuteHD’s 192kHz PCM and DSD 64). Existing QuteHD DACs can be upgraded with the new chipset and board at the factory for […]
Norwegian-based manufacturer and quirkily named QNKTC (Quantization Noise Killed The Cat!) has unveiled its new competitively priced DAC, the £110 AB-1.2. The device has is roots in an open source project, as a hardware implementation of the Audio Widget venture. The project was started by an online group who wanted to develop the very best […]
Light Harmonic, manufacturers of the Da Vinci DAC and Da Vinci Dual DAC, today launched a campaign on the Kickstarter website to introduce “GEEK”, “a cutting- edge portable DAC and headphone amp”. “We’re excited that we can take technology developed while designing and building Da Vinci DAC and Dual DAC, and bring it to the […]
We’ve been keen at Hifi Pig to get hold of a couple of items from Schiit Audio for a while now as the company seem to have a good attitude, offer good service and their prices seem to be very keen indeed. We managed to get our hands on the Modi USB DAC ($99) and […]
Meridian has announced the introduction of Director, the company’s latest DAC. Built in Britain, Director aims to provide the link between digital sources and a conventional analogue audio system. Featuring a range of connectivity, Director can be used with a wide selection of traditional components as well as USB based sources. Director features technology drawn […]
Continuing a trend for smaller hifi, the cabinet of the XETAC DAC is based on the footprint of the Mac Mini and is made from a solid 1” (25mm) thick Aluminium plate by CNC machines in Germany. It uses small SMD components, also used in smartphones, allowing more than 200 precision mounted components to be […]
In another World exclusive review Hifi Pig’s Dan takes a look at the new £1750 DAC X Signature from UK based Cyrus Audio. “The DAC X Signature is a twin 32-bit stereo DAC, designed in dual-mono configuration where the operational elements of the system, such as the digital control signals, are optically isolated from the […]
The Audio Electronics by Cary Audio Lightning digital to analog converter(DAC) is now shipping and is available for purchase. The Lightning DAC uses Asynchronous Streamlength™ Class 2.0 USB audio technology for streaming computer USB audio. The Lightning DAC also has coaxial and Toslink inputs up to 24 bit/192 kHz resolution. The Lightning DAC starts with […]
Benchmark have announced their new Digital to Analogue Converter the DAC2 D. The DAC2 D has the same performance of the company’s DAC2 HGC but without the analogue inputs and the 12V trigger. Keeping the specs inline with DAC2 D, it has” lower noise, lower distortion, improved accuracy, outstanding musical detail, precise stereo imaging, an […]
M2 Tech, the Italian hifi manufacturer that brought us the well received hiFace S/PDIF output interface and the Evo DAC, have introduced the hiFace DAC, an async 2.0 USB 384/32 DAC. Details The hiFace DAC includes: asynchronous data transfer mode on USB 2.0, compliancy to USB 2.0 Audio Class (no drivers needed for MacOS, IOS, […]