Eversolo T10 streaming transport Eversolo have carved out a competitive space for themselves in the streaming world, their DMP range of streamer/DACs play hard in the mid market while the Play streaming amp puts the fight to the likes of Wiim and and Bluesound at the cut throat end of the business. So a streaming […]
Quad Platina CDT & Integrated transport & amplifier There are very few manufacturers of audio equipment who can claim to have been around for 90 years, but Quad most certainly can. Legend is a lazy epithet these days (a bit like iconic), but I think that we can safely and accurately apply it to Peter […]
Henry Audio DA 256 DAC Eleven years ago we were contacted by Norwegian programmer Borge Strand-Bergesen who had created the Henry USB DAC MkII, a compact single input converter that ran off the 5V provided by a USB connection. That DAC was surprisingly good for its €260 price at a time when there were few […]
Cambridge Audio CXN100 SE streamer The affordable end of the streaming market has seen a lot of activity over the last few years, especially with the addition of killer products from brands such as Wiim, Eversolo and Bluesound, to name a few. Meanwhile, London-based Cambridge Audio have been quietly getting on with the job of […]
Network Acoustics Muon2 network switch With Dela (£12,999), Xact (£6,000) and now Innuos (£21,500) making high end, high priced network switches it must be becoming clear to the bits is bits brigade that there is more to getting good sound out of a streaming system than a decent DAC. Network Acoustics have been making filters […]
Nagra Compact Player network streamer Nagra has some claim to being the OG high end audio brand, it’s hard to think of another that has been making such well built and regarded equipment for longer. The brand’s origins lie in tape recorders, both full size studio machines and portable examples that are among the most […]
Hifi Rose Master Fidelity RS451 network streamer The Hifi Rose RS451 network streamer is the latest addition to the Korean brand’s line-up and incorporates the firm’s second-generation streaming platform which has now trickled down from the flagship RS151. Right out of the box this feels like a premium product, the packaging is impressive, the user […]
Cinnamon Galle DAC Hi-fi shows are sadly not always the best places to audition audio gear, they are noisy and often cramped but fundamentally they rarely play the music you are familiar with at the right levels. At the recent Hi-Fi Show Deluxe the smaller of Boyer Audio’s dem rooms managed to contradict this impression […]
Moor Amps mana DAC It’s becoming increasingly clear that there’s an elephant in the high end audio listening room and that herbivore is aluminium. This material is almost ubiquitous in the casework of high end audio components and even a few loudspeakers, it’s relatively easy to machine into attractive shapes and when anodised has a […]
iFi iDSD Phantom DAC streamer headphone amp On a wet night in January iFi launched its most ambitious digital to analogue converter to date in one of the towers on London’s Tower Bridge, it was a novel location which will have helped get journalists out into the rain, fortunately the appearance of a recording industry […]
Primare Allt-i-Ett one box system Allt-i-Ett. No, not a secret keyboard shortcut to hack Elon Musk’s PIN number but, if you speak Swedish or Norwegian, simply ‘all-in-one’. After a 41 year run building some of the world’s sleekest Scandi-fi separates for both music and home cinema lovers, Allt-i-Ett is Primare’s long-awaited lifestyle concept album, the […]
Woodnote Solo streamer Woodnote is an example of a European hi-fi manufacturer that has grasped the nettle when it comes to shifting requirements in the market place. The brand is part of Lindemann, a company that started out making conventional 17 inch components in 1993 with the integrated Amp1, they made a CD player six […]