M2Tech has introduced the Young DSD at CES 2014.
The Young DSD supports DSD/64 and DSD/128, both native. It also plays all common PCM data rates up to 24/384 and 32/384 and DXD (24/352.8 and 32/352.8).… Read the full post
The new DALI Kubik Free and Kubik Xtra are on demonstration at Serious Music!
Since it’s recent introduction the Kubik Free, DALI’s first powered speaker, has received several positive reviews and awards. Here are some of them:
The M2Tech hiFace is an asynchronous USB 2.0 DAC.
While other competing USB DACs have a maximum resolution of 24/96, the hiFace DAC can play high resolution audio files up to 32/384.… Read the full post
The Tiki network audio player from Plinius Audio has just been reviewed in the Abso!ute sound.
Check out the review here.
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The NuForce Sound Quality Listening Guide provides a collection of audio tracks selected to highlight different aspects of high quality audio reproduction.
The guide includes an album, NuForce Audio Concepts Demo, which can be downloaded from the Web page. Its 16 audio tracks use a range of instruments such as drums, flute, cello and bass to present such concepts as dynamics, tonality and spaciousness. … Read the full post
The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) and Sony Electronics have both recently announced their support for and promotion of high resolution audio.
The CEA announcement of 2013-09-03 cited the benefits of high resolution audio. CEA research indicated that 9/10 consumers say that sound quality is important to them and 39% say that they are prepared to pay more for higher quality audio electronics.… Read the full post
The High Resolution Download Sites post has been updated to add the following sites:
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These YouTube videos from the High Resolution Symposium – München 2012 present discussions on high resolution Read the full post