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The new Devialet Phantom Ultimate 98 dB – Pulse Blue is not almost blue, not kind of blue, but bluer than blue.

Leave it up to Schiit to build a better product and reduce its price.

Well not literally here, as in In Barn, but available to purchase.

Master Fidelity’s new NADAC S Music Server joins the rest of the NADAC stack which includes the NADAC D DAC, NADAC C Master Clock, and NADAC L Line Stage Preamplifier.

The forthcoming Esoteric N-01XE packs a network player and DAC into one solid box that houses trickle down tech from the company’s flagship Grandioso N1.

I got up close and personal with Canton’s Reference 2 Floorstanding Speakers last year by way of a review and wrote:

Have you been dreaming about a more affordable line of gear from VinnieRossi? The forthcoming CANTA  Series consisting of a Phono Preamplfier, Integrated Amplifier, Preamplifier, and Stereo Amplifier make that dream a reality.

Magnetic levitation always sounds like sci-fi to me as its promise of floating free from gravity fueled many a sci-fi flick transport back in the day. Not to mention magicians invisible powers.

I don’t typically highlight packaging but in this case I made an exception.

7 colors, 12,000 units worldwide, $1,599.99/each.

Calling Dr Evil.

I reviewed the original Harmony DAC from Singapore’s LAiV Audio and concluded:

How many hifi products put the name of their industrial designer out front in a press release?

Some day I hope to get myself to Audio Advice Live in Raleigh, North Carolina because I’ve heard it’s fun.

Choice is good.