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Cambridge Audio Azur 651BD-B
What is it? Essentially a Blu Ray player, which supports 3D.. but it’s oh so much more. It also plays DVD’s DVD Audio, Super Audio CD’s and HDCD’s. There are a few of the more exotic BD formats, such...
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The JK DAC 32
What is it? A battery powered (re-chargeable) USB to Analogue output DAC/Sound card for a PCor MAC. It comes with a USB cable to charge the internal batteries, so can be left powered up, or run...
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DSPeaker Anti-Mode 2.0 Dual Core
Automated room correction system Normally when approaching a new piece of kit, one has a reasonable idea of the scale of the difference one might expect to hear. With speakers the potential scale of...
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Cambridge Audio – Stream Magic
This is a good sounding yet slightly clunky device and to be brutally honest I’ve avoided publishing my review of this bit of kit for some time. When it first arrived it was actually the first bit of...
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Jolida Fusion DAC & Transport (CD player)
“It’s not a CD player! It’s a DAC with a built in transport” “So it plays CDs then?” “Yes” “Like a CD player!” “Well, yes, but it has digital inputs, lots of them” “Like a CD player with digital...
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Jolida Glass FX II DAC
After their strong showing at the Scalford show this year I hope some of you will now be familiar with Jolida . Also my rave review of the Fusion CD player may have raised them up your flag pole so...
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Computer Audio Design CAD1543 DAC £6,900
My first review for the ‘wam puts me scarily close to breaking a personal rule of mine. When I’m approached by someone who has effectively brought a product to market single handed, I’m always nervous...
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Sonneteer Byron CD player.
All the technical details can wait. Eleanor Rigby from the Beatles’ Love album has just started and we need to talk about the sound – Now! Anyone familiar with George Martin’s re-engineering of the...
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Gato Audio DIA-250 Integrated Amplifier with DAC
Review Equipment: Digital Source: FLAC files via Squeezebox and USB input Analogue Source: Acoustic Solid 111, Audio Note Arm 1 and Benz Glider Phono Stage: Puresound T10 step up transformer and...
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CAAS Audio – Digital Audio Server and Elysian Mono Blocks
Turntable: Acoustic Solid 111, with Audio Note Arm, Tenuto Platter and Benz Glider cartridge. Phono Stage: Puresound P10/T10 and Cordette Dual Phono. Speakers: Most listening with Langerton 217...
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Custom Cable launches the Herus personal headphone DAC
Custom Cable, UK based reseller of headphones, cables and accessories, is launching the Resonessence Herus personal headphone DAC; digital signal conversion from USB sources direct to headphones in a...
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Free Audio Guides from CAD
Computer Audio Design (CAD), manufacturer of the award-winning CAD 1543 USB DAC, has created a number of free system set-up and optimisation guides, which are now available to download from the CAD...
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Audio Glu music Server.
Why? My PC has a 1TB hard drive and a large library of music ripped onto it. Probably >800 CD’s ripped so far. Not as many as some I’m sure, but still it’s a fair amount of FLAC. An ideal music...
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Jolida Glass FX Tube Dac III
After finally getting around to ripping my CD collection it seems that 2013 has been the year that I started to seriously look at some standalone DAC options and try and see what separates one from...
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Antelope launch new Platinum DSD upsampling DAC at CES
Las Vegas, Jan 7th, 2013 Leading digital audio manufacturer Antelope Audio [CES: Venetian, suite 29-227] introduces its new Zodiac Platinum DSD DAC/headphone amplifier during the 2014 Consumer...
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Antelope Audio Zodiac Platinum DSD DAC/Headphone Amp
If the Top Trumps company were looking for a new subject for their immortal card based shenanigans, they could do worse than look at DACs. Not only are there enough of them to make a satisfying pack of...
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£63,000.00 MSB DAC – for the Select few..
MSB Select MSB Technology has created a new DAC that is not only the very best that this highly respected Californian company can do but includes ten years worth of upgrades. The Diamond DAC IV Select...
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McIntosh MCD550… CD is Gratefully not dead!
Everyone has an opinion on McIntosh, certainly that’s the feeling I get when chatting to people at shows and reading the forums here. Most people comment on the styling, some comment on the price (it...
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Modwright Elyse DAC
For a company that started out nearly fifteen years ago providing modifications to digital equipment, Modwright’s first standalone DAC has had a long gestation. Still if something’s worth doing, it’s...
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Chord expand Hugo family with Hugo TT (Table Top)
Chord Electronics has launched the Hugo TT, a new ‘desktop’ Hugo with improved connectivity and performance, plus remote control, an alphanumeric LED display and a USB-B digital input (£2,995) Chord...
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