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Boy oh boy oh boy.

That’s right—the Schiit Audio Freya 2 preamplifier can be run as an all-tube preamp, as a MOSFET-based solid state affair, a hybrid deal, or even as a passive pre with no gain stage. Different flavors to suit your taste.

There’s nothing basic about black.

Brescia, Italy’s Diapason was founded in 1987 by Alessandro Schiavi “a live classical recording engineer who needed a monitor he could trust.”

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.

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: