Flooded with built-in features, Paul Rigby gets to grips with a gamut of choice from this all-in-one system Quite apart from the Omnia. Why buy one? That is, why buy an…
Created in collaboration with the high-end hi-fi outfit Auris, Paul Rigby reviews this portable, battery-powered headphone amplifier and DAC, featuring a pre-amp option First impression? The Earmen styling of the metallic…
This is an unscheduled follow up to a recent review I did on the desktop DAC from Topping, the D50s You can see the full Topping D50s review in all its…
A dinky little DAC it might be but, as Paul Rigby sees and hears, its packed with an array of features Having already reviewed the Topping E30 DAC (a delightful reading…
Created in collaboration with the high-end hi-fi outfit Auris, Paul Rigby reviews the Earmen portable, battery-powered headphone amplifier and DAC, featuring a pre-amp option The Earmen TR-Amp uses an ES9038Q2M Sabre…
The third generation of Kann digital audio players, Paul Rigby reviews this meaty, brick of a device And it is. As long as you don’t have small hands, the aluminium-based, quad-core…
And they come again. DACs sourced from indigenous Chinese hi-fi outfits are, as my old Gran used to say, “all the rage”. Paul Rigby looks at this new 32bit LA-QXD1 model…
At a small form factor and an equally small price, Paul Rigby reviews this dinky DAC/Headphone amp combo This DAC accompanies the Zen Blue DAC unit I reviewed recently to form…
A stand-alone DAC devoted to the Bluetooth standard, Paul Rigby looks at iFi’s Zen Blue Who knows? It might sell only burger and chips nowadays but back when I were a…
A one-box network player with external power supply, Paul Rigby looks at this tweakable digital hub, complete with tuning options! Network players are basically computers shoved into a lifestyle case. The…
A headphone amplifier, pre-amp and DAC, this balanced unit is a real Curate’s Egg of a system. Paul Rigby smiled and frowned and smiled and… A fully balanced version of the…
It’s a dinky little thing and arrives with an added pre-amp facility, Paul Rigby reviews this low-cost DAC Topping seems to have descended upon the hi-fi firmament with little or no…
Packing in a feast of digital but also analogue facilities in a single chassis, Paul Rigby reviews the Moon 390 The concept of the all-in-one hi-fi unit has become incredibly fashionable…
Presented in a small footprint chassis, Paul Rigby reviews the Heed DAC, the Abacus This DAC arrives in a relatively dinky case for a fully-fledged hi-fi unit which would normally trigger…
Part of a family of compact products from France’s Advance, Paul Rigby reviews the UX1 Multimedia Player Compact and almost cube-like (kinda), the UX1 looks stylish, enough to attract the lifestyle user…
A neat, yet solid looking DAC with an integrated headphone amplifier, Paul Rigby reviews the iFi nano iDSD Black Label If you plug headphones into your phone or your laptop and…
Looking for an integrated music system that does it all but at an affordable price? Paul Rigby examines Leema’s Quasar I feel that I need to put this Leema Quasar box…
Is the Unit Atom just a streamer or actually an all-in-one hi-fi system? Paul Rigby rushed to add a pair of speakers to complete his review Naim’s earlier array of streamers…
Looking for a ‘do it all’ DAC/headphone amplifier at a reasonable price and, while we’re about it, size? Paul Rigby looks at – and struggles with – a prime candidate in…
Utilising the new AK4490EQ chipset that ATC describes as a “…new generation of premium 32bit DAC,” Paul Rigby reviews the ATC HDA-DP10 Compact digital music players are evolving quickly, adopting new…
Looking for a slimline, portable DAC? Paul Rigby reviews the tube-shaped Spectra from NextDrive The popularity of the DAC knows no bounds, it seems. DACs now arrive in a host of…
Promising to combine value for money with a performance punch, Paul Rigby reviews a new DAP from ATC, the HDA-DP20 Digital Audio Players (DAP) continue to arrive on the market thick…
Looking for a mobile, portable DAC that can undertake a wealth of digital jobs? Paul Rigby is which is why he reviewed this example from iFi Some of you might notice…
Looking for a low cost, high value headphone amplifier/DAC? Paul Rigby looks at the iFi nano iDSD LE (Light Edition) The iDSD LE comes from the same design place as the…
Featuring a host of bespoke noise reduction technologies Paul Rigby reviews the Vertex AQ Aletheia DAC-1 The idea is that if you separate each major component within a hi-fi system, you…
An original design from the company, Paul Rigby reviews the NAD C368 Hybrid Digital DAC/Amplifier We’ve been used to NAD releasing hardware with a contemporary design that screames ‘design studios’ and…