HiFi News

Streaming? Check. DAC? Check. Moving Magnet Phono input? Check. Analog inputs? Check. Headphone Out? Check. + 150W of class AB power (into 8 Ohms) = full-featured.

The Weiss Helios DAC is the company’s state-of-the-art converter and is now available in the US and Canada thanks to distributor Bluebird Music.

Poland-based Ferrum has been getting some good buzz for their head-fi focused products and they’ve just given their ERCO Headphone Amp/DAC  a major facelift.

MoFi Electronics has a history of teaming up with world-class engineers when designing things like speakers (Andrew Jones), turntables (Alan Perkins), and electronics (Peter Madnick). For the new StudioDAC, MoFi brought in Mytek’s Michal Jurewicz to collaborate.

Goldring’s history dates all the way back 1906 (!) when brothers Heinrich and Julius Scharf began manufacturing parts for the budding gramophone industry.

The new Luxman CX-10 Control Amp, that’s a preamp for most of us, is jam packed with Luxman tech wrapped in lust-worthy looks that I’ve come to expect from the 99-year old Japanese company.

Regional shows make a lot of sense as they allow people to experience lots of gear close(r) to home.

As the last bits of snow melt away from the latest NE storm, Florida in February is sounding pretty good.

CES is still a thing? I joke because it still is a BIG Show for Consumer Electronics and now that Roon lives under the Harman International umbrella, a CES unveiling makes sense.

To say I liked the Octave V 16 Single Ended Integrated Amplifier is like saying Popeye liked spinach.

France’s totaldac, best known for their totally lovely DACs, has been offering complete systems from source to speakers for years. The new Amp-1-Sublime trades the original Amp-1’s triode stage for a solid state solution.

Germany’s Canton is now shipping their new Reference Series Loudspeakers, consisting of 6 models plus a center channel and subwoofer, in the USA and Canada.

Harman, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Samsung Electronics (since 2017), has gone and done it—they bought my Roon.

One thing that sets the new Astell&Kern AK HC4 USB DAC apart from most other dongle DACs is its dual 3.5mm and 4.4mm outputs, perfect for headphone & IEM loving ‘philes.

WiiM, makers of the popular, thanks in part to Darko.Audio, and affordable WiiM Mini and Pro streamers just launched their first streaming amp that packs a boatload of functionality in a very nicely priced package.