Category: Digital Audio/CD Players
Rockna Audio Wavelight Pre/DAC by Terry London
September 7, 2020
The vast majority of DACs in today’s market are single-bit Sigma-Delta designs. A much smaller segment of this market uses a multi-bit R2R ladder, NOS 16-bit DAC chips, in their approach to bringing [Read More]
Kitsune Holo Audio KTE May DAC by David Abramson
August 9, 2020
May Day!! May Day!! “As to R2R DACs, they are extremely simple to build. You can build one yourself if you just search a bit online! Getting them to be low noise and distortion [Read More]
Bricasti Design M3 DAC by Terry London
June 9, 2020
For the last ten years, I have had more than five non-oversampling (NOS) R2R (Resistor ladder) multi-bit DACs, with tube-based digital-to-analog sections, as my digital reference in my main system. Over that time span, I [Read More]
Mola Mola Tambaqui DAC by Clement Perry
February 25, 2020
High-End distributor Bill Parish of GTT Audio and Video serves as the USA importer/distributor for bespoke audio designs such as AudioNet, Kii Audio, YG Acoustics, and Mola Mola. Parish tends always to invite me [Read More]
Aqua Acoustic Quality La Voce S3 Discrete DAC
February 16, 2019
When an old friend goes to the hospital for surgery, you worry. They wanted to gut him; take a burr to his Burr-Browns and stuff in a non-FDA-approved proprietary FPGA board. Lordy! We [Read More]
Merging Technology NADAC + Player and NADAC + Power Active
December 31, 2018
Merging Technologies is one of the world’s leading manufacturer of high-resolution digital audio recording systems over the last 25 years. Merging Technologies was founded in 1990 in Chexbres, Switzerland by Claude Cellier; an [Read More]
OPPO UDP-205 UNIVERSAL PLAYER (Modified)
November 20, 2018
My award for 2017’s Most Wanted Component went to OPPO’s UDP-205 UHD/Blu-ray/Universal disc player. Here’s what I wrote: “To call this player ‘great value for the money’ is to do it an [Read More]
CH Precision C1 DAC and D1 SACD/CD Transport
August 2, 2018
The CH Precision C1, D1, and X1 is the one of the most expensive and sophisticated digital component setups I’ve explored and reviewed thus far in my audio travels. CH Precision is a Swiss-based company [Read More]
PS Audio Stellar Gain Cell DAC Preamp
July 27, 2018
Life with a full-featured DAC and analog preamplifier Earlier this year, I reviewed the PS Audio Stellar M700 mono amplifiers and liked ‘em a lot (reviewed here). When I first heard PS Audio products would [Read More]
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