ALIEN DAP GOLD EDITION
May 30, 2016 Comments Off on ALIEN DAP GOLD EDITION
” Perhaps I am old school in that respect, perhaps a lack of GUI does not bother me given I still work with cassette decks and turntables as well as digital audio. The iGadget crowd will take some convincing but once you listen to it you might actually agree with me. That lovely natural organic sound, excellent staging qualities and finally some bass oomph in the new better built Alien Gold edition is a keeper in my books. For the price, it is a bargain.”
Meridian Explorer2 D/A headphone amplifier Review
May 26, 2016 Comments Off on Meridian Explorer2 D/A headphone amplifier Review
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MQA’s main objective is to avoid and repair the blurring, or time smearing, that occurs every time a conventionally designed low-pass (especially brick-wall) filter is employed in the recording and/or playback chains. MQA uses knowledge of the specific digital converters involved in that chain to restore timing information so that the temporal resolution is much better than even in high-frequency, high-bit-rate audio files.”
MOJO-KAI REVIEW
May 10, 2016 Comments Off on MOJO-KAI REVIEW
” Whatever the case, Mojo-Kai is especially well suited to earphones. If you’re a balanced earphone user worried by the shameful output of your DP-X1 and AK380, not to mention Opus#1, Mojo-Kai is your best bet. It plays nice with any device with USB protocol, and thanks to transformer coupling, is less susceptible to RF interference through coaxial input (tested with Lynx HILO with nearby iPhone 6). It is a good design. It is, in fact, a design that makes more sense to me than the stock Mojo, whose second output is redundant.”
Centrance DACport HD Review
May 8, 2016 Comments Off on Centrance DACport HD Review
” The sound is detailed and engaging, bass respond is good and impactful without any sense of sluggishness. Mid is good and proven when I play Amanda Mcroom’s songs, it is a balanced presentation and definitely has good nuance in the vocal too. The thing that surprised me a lot is the soundstage performance which is really excellent, even if I judging it by desktop standard (not portable) it is still very good, it is an open, wide and shaped soundstage, amazed me really. As far as audio quality goes, I can’t complain anything, the goodness of HD’s sound quality has actually made me less visit my more serious, way more expensive desktop DAC and amplifier too, what a shame, I am getting older and portability (with excellent audio quality) is what I am looking for now.”
ARCAM’s MusicBOOST Review
April 17, 2016 Comments Off on ARCAM’s MusicBOOST Review
” The iPhone 6’s DAC is not bad, however the Arcam offers an upgrade over the sound quality of the iPhone’s native internals. While Apple Lossless encoding of music stored on the phone offers better resolution than the compressed 256 kb/sec option, both formats benefit from sonic improvement with the Arcam in place. Streaming Tidal’s CD-quality music proves even more revelatory; exposing a bigger gap between the iPhone and the MusicBOOST, now offering a relaxed smoothness that the naked iPhone can’t. The Arcam’s lushness isn’t overly romantic, but it does take music to the warmer end of the spectrum. As a result, vocals and instruments render with detail, but without sharp digital artifacts that detract from the overall musical experience.”
VIOLECTRIC V850 REVIEW
April 14, 2016 Comments Off on VIOLECTRIC V850 REVIEW
” ” The V850, in combination with the End Game Amp in balanced mode, still sounds good but to me the amplifier is holding back the performance of the DAC. The EGA only has a balanced input but I have to say that I hardly noticed any differences between the RCA and XLR connections on the Violectric setup. The V850 will show you the difference between a 256kb MP3 and a 24/96 version of the same song but it won’t make you delete your lesser quality file as it is quite forgiving. The V850 has never given me the impression of sounding harsh, too soft or too sharp. It just makes you enjoy your music with a very good level of sound presented in a very musical, Violectric kind of way.”
DragonFly Black & DragonFly Red
April 11, 2016 Comments Off on DragonFly Black & DragonFly Red
DragonFly Black & DragonFly Red
Play all music files: MP3 to high-resolution
Compatible with Apple and Windows PCs, as well as iOS and Android mobile devices (requires Apple Camera Adaptor or Made for Android/OTG adaptor)
Asynchronous Class 1 USB data transfer using the StreamlengthTM protocol
Fixed output feeds preamp or A/V receiver
Woo Audio WA8 amplifier Review
April 10, 2016 Comments Off on Woo Audio WA8 amplifier Review
” The WA8 also sounded great with my hard-to-drive, high-impedance (600 ohm) Beyerdynamic T 1 full-size headphones; the amp sweetened and warmed up the sound. I next played my low-impedance (32 ohm) Grado RS-1 headphones with the WA8, and compared it with an Aurender Flow portable digital converter/headphone amp ($1,295/AU$1,799). The solid-state Flow was a touch more laid-back and mellow; the WA8 more transparent, low-level detailing and spatial cues were more vividly presented. While you might expect the tube amp would be more “tubey,” the solid-state Flow softened details more than the WA8″
PHATLAB AUDIO PHANTASY REVIEW
April 10, 2016 Comments Off on PHATLAB AUDIO PHANTASY REVIEW
” In both hi-Z and low-Z settings, it supplies a rich, but clear signal with a great affinity for female vocals – to certain headphones. And, both Z settings are bass light. Being a very tubey amp, Phantasy puts out loads of harmonic distortion, and is prone to early onset of IMD both under load and not. The good news is that sizzling IMD doesn’t affect normal to loud listening levels with any load I have tried. I listen to the 600Ω DT880 at volume levels no higher than 15% – 20%, at which settings, IMD is about as low as you can expect from a SET design. Phantasy kicks out sizzle-free signal into the DT880/600 up to a rotation of about 50% of its volume pot, which is well loud.”
CHORD ELECTRONICS MOJO $599 REVIEW
April 8, 2016 Comments Off on CHORD ELECTRONICS MOJO $599 REVIEW
” The Mojo also plays out a bit better with EDM than the Hugo. That slightly thicker fuller bass response of the Mojo gels much better with the likes of Benny Benassi and Dash Berlin than the Hugo’s more neutral and flatter bass signature. Admittedly though the Hugo has a much more spacious sound to it than the Mojo and the brighter signature in general can often add missing sparkle in some EDM that really needs the top end to shine. Overall though it is about the bass body and weight for the majority of EDM and the Mojo is the more musical choice in that respect.”
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