The topic of DACs is always interesting. Whether stand alone, or built into an integrated amp or preamp, DACs have a lot of influence on the sound of your music and TV. To get cut above performance, you can’t beat beefy, linear power supplies. The DAC chip you use is just the start. It’s actually more important to make sure your DAC…
I love hearing and reading about new audio products. I’m like you, a kid in a candy store who gets excited about what this or that technology might bring to make our music sound more like the real McCoy in our living rooms. It seems like yesterday (well, it was 1973) that I was reading that better cables (Fulton) improved our sound….
I like to read a bunch of audio mags. You always manage to learn something from them. Let’s check the lineup. First up this month… Phono Cartridge $9k Tested on tables for tens of thousands.Give me a MoFi StudioDeck table with Orto Bronze for $1640, thank you very much. Marantz Streaming Integrated Amp $1000 Nice features but at 60×2 this is another…
Audio Rags I enjoy reading audio magazines. These “reviewers” get exposed to a lot more new gear than you and I do. But let’s face it. It’s getting to where these guys are absurd. All they see is the one cherry picked piece that lands at their door step. Or, with more influential mags like Stereophile and TAS, the gear is hand…