In Barn for Review

Seems like the whole world is streaming, something. With lossless streaming hitting the Big Players including Amazon, Apple, and soon-to-be Spotify, along with our beloved hi-res high-quality Tidal and Qobuz services, there’s every reason to bring streaming to your hi-fi. And the ALTAIR G1 is […]

I first covered a totaldac DAC, the D1-Dual, back in 2013. In the intervening years I’ve reviewed and owned a number of Vincent Brient’s D to A creations and am very happily living with his d1-tube DAC/Streamer today. But totaldac speakers? Yes, totaldac speakers.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder but I can’t imagine any other reaction to seeing the Sonus Faber Olympica Nova III than to declare, Che bella vista!

South Korea-based HiFi Rose is new to me, but their RS150b Reference Network Streamer looks like it sprung from mature minds.

The Totem Tribe Tower Speakers make Twiggy look wide.

Netherlands-based Sonnet Digital Audio is a relatively new company, but one with a long history in digital audio design.

The Bel Canto E1X Integrated Amplifier combines a DAC, streamer, and phono stage with a 180Watt Stereo amplifier in a single, sleek, black chassis. All in oneness.

The EgglestonWorks Oso are offered in virtually any color of your choosing. The review pair arrived in a beautiful Barn Red (that’s not really what this color is called but it’s what I’m going to call it).

I’ve been eyeing, earing, and ogling the products from Audio Note UK for decades.

I’m hoping there’s more than a family resemblance to be found between the recently reviewed, and loved, Denafrips ARES II DAC, and the upstream Denafrips Pontus II.

The dongle DACs just keep comin’.

Even a Baby Grand can be grand.

The shipping cartons containing the GoldenEar Triton Reference Tower Speakers are about the same size as the hotel room I used to occupy in Paris.

Digital To Digital Converter? Why convert digital to digital? For robots with hifis?

Catch the perfect wave.