Yesterday we had Ferrum’s BROEN leaning on Volumio’s software while handing the digital-to-analogue conversion off to an outboard box. Today, the people who write that software show how they’d do the ...
Ferrum’s new BROEN is a streaming transport: it pulls in digital audio streams over your network or from directly attached storage devices, then passes them back out over I2S, AES/EBU, coaxial, ...
Sonus faber has taken the covers off Olympica G3, a five-model loudspeaker range that revisits one of the Italian ...
The Shanling SCD3.3 is a top-loading CD/SACD player that folds in some very basic USB drive file playback and Bluetooth ...
Cheap and experimental at one end, freshly unveiled high-end at the other: the latest Darko.Audio podcast episode has Srajan and me working both. I start at the affordable end with the Schiit Buf, a ...
The plan was the new DragonFly Copper, AudioQuest’s latest dongle DAC. German customs had other ideas, and it took its time reaching Berlin. So only four dongle DACs made the table, with the Copper ...
It’s been an interesting month for ‘new’ old music. Placebo ‘Re-Created’ its 1996 indie-rock debut to mark the album’s 30th anniversary: a remix (plus overdubs) pushes its guitar sound closer to early ...
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The Line Magnetic 845iA (£3999/US$4895/€3999) is an integrated amplifier with three line-level RCA inputs and a low-ish power output. Even to seasoned audiophiles, 22wpc into 8 Ohms won’t sound like ...
The Arcam SA45 (€4999/US$5499) is the Cambridge company’s flagship streaming integrated amplifier, designed and engineered in the UK and manufactured in China. It’s a physically imposing 17kg black ...
It has occurred to me that some audiophiles will find the new Playback Designs MPD-8 Dream DAC (US$22,000) to be an audacious name for a new product. But those of us that have been familiar with the ...