The Stack Audio LINK is a new audiophile USB music player that adds streaming capability to existing 2 channel hifi systems. Stack Audio may be a new name to many. It is a British hifi company that is focused on the front-end and alongside producing analogue products has been researching and developing its streamer platform for 5 years. It passionately believes a pure source signal is paramount for enjoyable music reproduction, whether analogue or digital. More »
Harman’s Mark Levinson has announced a major firmware update for its № 519 Audio Player which adds Roon Ready capability, MQA Certification and other enhancements. More »
Pioneer and Onkyo have announced a firmware update release on December 18th that activates MQA audio playback capability and support for TIDAL Masters audio streaming on their network-enabled stereo hifi components. More »
Bluesound’s Generation 2i Players now certified for Apple’s AirPlay 2 technology. More »
Chord Electronics has launched an exclusive, limited-edition Mojo and Poly Christmas gift pack, which contains everything to get into high-resolution mobile music streaming this Christmas (£990). More »
Entertaining at Christmas can be a daunting prospect, but with DTS Play-Fi technology now built into many household speakers, it’s now easier to set the soundtrack of the evening from your phone. More »
Melco is joining forces with high-end hifi dealer, KJ West One, to present a Streaming Masterclass in the heart of the capital at KJ’s Marylebone showroom. More »
Naim has announced that Apple AirPlay 2 technology is imminent for the Mu-so range, bringing with it advanced multi-room audio capabilities and natural voice controls via Apple’s Siri virtual assistant. More »
The Roon Nucleus + is essentially a Roon specific dedicated network streamer costing £2500, but what does it bring to the whole Roon experience sonically? John Scott finds out. 
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Melco will be showing their new two-box N10 digital music library, plus new MELCO Music HD App and have live metadata demonstrations at The Hi-Fi Show Live 2018 this weekend, November the 10th and 11th. More »
The Roon Nucleus + is essentially a Roon specific dedicated network streamer costing £2500, but what does it bring to the whole Roon experience sonically? John Scott finds out. More »
Naim Audio and Focal, have got together to offer three exclusive system deals, including a free music system for a second room. More »
Cabasse, the French loudspeaker brand, has announced the launch of The Pearl, an active, high-definition connected speaker, that concentrates all the expertise and technology from the flagship La Sphère into a compact form. More »
French loudspeaker manufacturer, Triangle, are launching AIO 3, a speaker that lets you stream music using aptX Bluetooth, AirPlay, wi-fi or UPnP, plus access internet radio and Spotify Connect. More »
Devialet has unveiled Phantom REACTOR an ultra-compact speaker that is the result of three years of research and development in acoustic and mechanical engineering. The Phantom REACTOR 600 and Phantom REACTOR 900 are the latest additions to the Devialet Phantom family. More »
NAD will be exhibiting at the RMAF in Denver, Colorado October 5th -7th, 2018. Along with sister brands PSB and Bluesound, they can be found in Room 8021 in the Tower and in A23 of the Atrium section of CanJam. More »
Auralic will be partnering with Parasound and Cabaase at the Festival of Sound taking place this weekend, 28th – 30 September at the Novotel Hotel, Hammersmith in London. More »
Auralic and Innuos Surrey based dealer, Ultimate Stream, have teamed up with their friends at Native DSD to offer 10 free Native DSD downloads, worth up to £300, with each Auralic G1 and G2 Series product or the Innuos ZEN Mk3, ZENith Mk3 and Statement music servers purchased during October and November 2018 (conditions apply). More »
Last week we had a very pleasant visit up to Glasgow to Linn HQ to experience their new product. However, until midday today, we and the other selekt (see what I did there), few journalists from the British Hifi Press, were sworn to secrecy about what we had seen and heard. Finally we can reveal the launch of the Linn Selekt DSM, an all-new Linn network music player that promises, say the Linn team, “to bring the feeling back to digital audio”. More »
Mr Araki, CEO of Melco Syncrets, the Hifi division of the Japanese IT company Buffalo Technology, has announced the launch of the Melco N10 ‘extreme performance’ Hi-Res digital Music Library and the more entry level N100. More »
IFI Audio have now launched their DAC-cum-music streaming device, the iFI Pro iDSD. More »
AVM’s latest Compact Streaming CD Receiver, the INSPIRATION CS 2.2 4T will be unveiled by PMC UK Distribution at Festival of Sound in September. Based on the CS 2.2, the enhanced CS 2.2 4T now features the latest Bluetooth 4.2 standard, with a dedicated second antenna on the rear of the unit. More »
Music tech company, Cotodama, has announced their new ventures with Europe’s ‘leading music tech incubator’ Abbey Road Red along with the launch of Canvas, another speaker in their product line alongside the original Lyric Speaker, which we brought you the news about last year. More »
Onkyo and Pioneer have confirmed that they will be releasing a free firmware updates throughout the month of August to add Deezer support to a large number of their AV receivers and networked audio devices. Deezer is one of the most popular subscription-based, streaming music services, with access to a library of more than 53 million songs. More »
Auralic got in touch to tell us about their Summer promotion. Buy the Altair Streaming DAC between now and September the 30th and receive six months Qobuz free of charge. More »
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