Calling it DAC is certainly reductive, especially when you have to consider that it is practically the same device used by New York Philharmonic, Mobile Fidelity, Apple ...

Theoretical limit and space-time event: only by keeping this two concepts in mind we can understand this extreme music machine.

Circuit improvements and a new aesthetic have been introduced for this lucky digital-plus-power couple.

A digital source for refined palates, dedicated to those audiophiles that can recognize and appreciate subtle but paramount qualitative differences.

The digital source that takes to the extremes all the principles on which Omega Audio Concepts’ manufacturing and design philosophy is based.

Second listening part of one of the smartest DACs available on the market, here tested in the Windows environment.

A rigorous and titled device suitable to become the core of a modern Hi-Fi system where the ultimate target is the headphone listening.

A crucial component. Old and new together. Many potentialities still to discover.

32 bit/348 kHz resolution plus DSD and DXD music player: who can do better in this market range and with such manufacturing level?

An all-in-one DAC to reproduce almost everything in the digital field. A successful and versatile machine.

USB converters, willing or not, seem to be one of the most popular ways to incline new people towards our sector. It would be welcome the contribute of an expert in the digital sector which does not want to sacrifice the quality of the sound for the sake of the practicality.

Does your listening room steal quite some music? Now you can process it…

Since the beginning of its history, MSB boasts a cutting-edge technology and, rare thing, proprietary digital discrete converters.

It is also a headphone amplifier: so many chances! Some old enthusiasts can think that single devices for every single function are preferable. But, after the listening sessions...

Cabinet in bamboo, battery power supply, isolation from vibrations and electrical interferences: a CDP that does everything from good to excellent.

I have never thought to test an object that represents a solid bridge between the analogue and the digital world.

Bel Canto's top converter with its dedicated super power supply: you just wait for it...

DAC, headphone amplifier and speaker into a small cube of six centimeters. To bring someone closer to a first musical listening nothing comes to my mind that could be easier, accessible and performing than this portable system.

Differently from the basic model, this one is provided with a kit of six Op-Amps operational amplifiers in order to personalize the sound performances. The most exigent user can therefore get the best listening combination and configuration.

A fluid sound, without any digital roughness, precise but quite soft. The detail is not an end to itself, it makes the playback more realistic. In this sense, we must say that the digital is making great progresses.

The transport can read several formats like CD, CDDA, CD-R, CD-RW and is provided with the CD Text function.
DAC with four digital inputs.
A valuable duo if compared with its price.

The battery-powered external power supply is more than a simple slave, and the external clock is open to the world and capable of digest whatever frequencies.
Evo digital set: small, strong, smart and… infinite.

Small, strong and smart: a powerful interface from the PC and a helpful DAC. First part of the most “open” and cool digital system of the market.

Digital Media Players: their coming from the computer world seems to hamper the “old style” audiophile. Let us see how Max Research Interface can be more user friendly.

The 707 USB DAC deserves an award for its exemplar price/quality ratio, for its wide flexibility and for making possible good audiophile satisfactions without spending lots of money.

Minimalist in the look but glorious in the sound. The Soulution 540 is a CD/SACD digital player that employs the VRDS Esoteric VOSP transport and hides with great understatement its unlimited possibilities.

Since its manufacturer is a specialized provider of Class D integrated amplification, this DAC has been designed to be a primary match for a PC.

I have tested the KingRex T20U both with the standard switching PSU and the partnering PSU MKII, which promises to make it reach primacy in the listening quality: a development of the T-Amp?

Mini size and mini price: the second episode of Maverick’s miniseries dedicated to the TubeMagic D1 DAC. Besides being a headphone amplifier and having a solid-state audio output, it also has a pre-amp output with one tube only.

A DAC of absolute modernity. For the quality of its sound, the superb engineering and the possibility of handling the analogue sources, it represent an incomparable item in terms of versatility.

A plain silver brick with a great soul inside! The digital sound comes out bodied, accurate, crispy, dynamic and broad. In comparison my own DAC...

You are about to read a reasoning about the role of streaming music and the machines to reproduce it, in AD 2011. Such reasoning springs from the device object of this review, which, beyond merits or faults, is the starting point of these considerations.