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Light Harmonic Launch Kickstarter Campaign for GEEK DAC

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 […]

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Meridian Announce Director DAC

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 […]

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XETAC DAC

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 […]

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Hifi Review – Cyrus Audio DAC X Signature

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 […]

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Audio Electronics by Cary Audio introduce Lightning DAC

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 […]

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Benchmark DAC2 D Announced

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 […]

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M2Tech Hi Face DAC

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, […]

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Amphion and Antelope Audio at Bristol 2013

Amphion and Antelope Audio will be co-exhibiting at the Sound & Vision Bristol Show in the United Kingdom, February 22 – 24, 2013. The two brands are going to demonstrate a few different set ups, starting with mastering quality to easy-to-use desktop systems. Visitors will have the chance to see for the first time in […]

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Meridian Explorer USB DAC

Meridian has announced the introduction of its Explorer USB DAC. The Explorer is a pocket-sized high-resolution USB DAC from “that delivers best-in-class sound from any computer”. Featuring a range of connectivity, the Explorer can be used in a variety of applications from private headphone listening to full system playback. The Explorer is compatible with Mac, […]

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KEF X300A Active Loudspeakers and DAC

KEF has announced the introduction of the X300A, an active design primarily conceived to partner a PC or Mac desktop or laptop computer with inbuilt amps and DAC. Connection is via a 96kHz/24 bit USB digital input. Unlike many typical active computer speakers, which have a single class D ‘digital’ amp on each channel, the […]

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Computer Audio Design 1543 DAC

British newcomer Computer Audio Design (CAD), is a specialist high-end audio company that aims to achieve the “finest sound quality from computer audio sources”. Designed and hand-built in the UK, CAD’s debut offering, the CAD 1543 DAC, has been built as a “no-compromise” asynchronous USB DAC. The CAD 1543 DAC has been built on a […]

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New 501 Reference Series from TEAC

TEAC have recently announced the launch of a new series of hifi seperates called the 501 Reference series. The series includes the AI-501DA class D integrated amplifier (pictured) with 192kHz USB Audio Input using BurrBrown PCM5102 D/A , the PD-501HR CD Player with 5.6MHz DSD-file-recorded disc nativeplayback, the HA-501full-analogue dual monaural headphone amplifier and finally […]