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MIT Announces New StyleLink USB Cables
|May 10, 2013 - MIT Cables is pleased to announce the release of two new high-performance USB cables for the computer audiophile, StyleLink Digital and StyleLink Digital Plus. Part of the new StyleLine family of ...read more -
Bel Canto mLink, uLink, and REF Link USB Converters
|When I reviewed the Bel Canto DAC 3.5 VB in Issue 216 I found it to be an outstanding full-featured DAC/ preamplifier that only lacked a USB interface. Bel Canto’s thinking was that USB interface ...read more -
NAD Announces Trio of Groundbreaking Digital Audio Products
|New York, NY May 1, 2013 — NAD Electronics, the highly regarded manufacturer of high-performance audio/video components, unveiled three affordable new products that represent a bold step forward in digital music reproduction. The D 7050 ...read more -
New York Audio Show: The Big Apple Goes Big Time
|If last year’s New York Audio Show was a rebirth, 2013 saw its fruition. Everything about this year’s show was better. “We can actually get our gear to the rooms,” marveled Andy Singer of Sound ...read more -
New York Audio Show - Part 1
|I don’t know anyone who is ambivalent about New York City. It’s a “love it” or “hate it” thing. My wife is not on the “love it” side of that particular fence, and I can ...read more -
Bryston BDA-2 Digital-to-Analog Converter
|Perhaps it was serendipity, perhaps inevitability, that led me to play The Modern Jazz Quartet’s The Last Concert. “Softly, As In a Morning Sunrise” unfolds kaleidoscopically, somehow by turns psychedelic, funky, dapper, bluesy, and sly. ...read more -
2013 TAS Editors' Choice Awards: DACs Under $1000
|AudioQuest DragonFly$249audioquest.com How can you not absolutely love an asynchronous USB DAC packed with audiophilegrade design elements in the form factor of a USB stick that costs $249? The variable output level allows you to ...read more -
ExaSound Audio Design e20 Digital-to-Analog Converter
|ExaSound Audio Design is a Canadian company that designs and domestically manufactures two DACs: an e18 multichannel model and the recently released $2499 two- channel e20, the subject of this review. So just what distinguishes ...read more -
Viewpoint: HRT Music Streamer HD
|The Music Streamer HD is HRT’s top of the line USB DAC. You might assume this is the go-to streamer to use when you’ve tired of HRT’s microStreamer? Not really. Do not, I repeat do ...read more -
Esoteric D-07X Digital-to-Analog Converter
|I realize that Esoteric is best known for its transports, which it sells as full-fledged components as well as raw mechanisms that, in turn, form the guts of other manufacturers’ products. However, since my review ...read more -
Leading Names In Audiophile World To Share Expertise At New York Audio Show In April
|New York, NY, March 20, 2013 – A dozen renowned experts will share their high performance audio expertise in clinics, seminars and panel discussions at the New York Audio Show, April 12 – 14, 2013 ...read more -
AXPONA 2013 - Part 4
|For a vendor, an audio show is an expensive thing. There’s several thousand dollars they put out for the demo space, there’s the shipping and handling, the room and board, and the opportunity costs associated ...read more -
AXPONA 2013 - Part 3
|I read too much, I think that’s fairly clear. Which might explain why, when a fire alarm goes off in a crowded hotel anywhere near Chicago, my first thought isn’t “grease fire over at Gibsons”. ...read more -
Robert Harley on AXPONA Chicago
|The Chicago AXPONA show was a bit of a gamble—as is any first show in a city—but this is one gamble that paid off. The Doubletree Hotel at O’Hare airport featured many fine-sounding exhibits, excellent ...read more -
AXPONA 2013 - Part 2
|Apropos of nothing in particular, let’s change things up a bit: what do you know about analog tape? The answer in my case is a solid “not much” – but I’m learning. Why? Well, mainly ...read more
