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1. CEntrance DACMini USB DAC
(Matching tags: USB DACs,DACs)
CEntrance is a Chicago based company with engineering in the US and Moscow, Russia, design in Holland, and manufacturing facilities in Asia but final assembly in the US . Let’s just say ‘multi-national’. ...
2. Bryston BDP-1 Music Server and BDA-1 DAC
(Matching tags: DACs,Music Servers)
Media servers usually contain a hard drive on which you store your music (ripped CDs). Bryston's new BDP-1 Music Server utililzes USB thumb drives or external USB hard drive. This way, you can carry your ...
As general rule of thumb, I try not to review equipment from manufacturers of products that I personally own as it can lend an air of bias on my part. I’m just letting you know up front that I own a ...
4. Wyred4Sound DAC-2 AND STI-500 Integrated Stereo Amplifier
(Matching tags: DACs,Integrated Amplifiers,USB)
Recently the external DAC has made a bit of a comeback in popularity. While they were once most commonly paired with a digital transport, now you’re more likely to see them hooked up as part of a home ...
Digital to Analog converters (DACs) have been enjoying something of a renaissance in the past couple of years due to the widespread adoption of computer based music. Back before SACD, DVD-A and multichannel ...
6. Integra DHC-80.1 Surround Sound Processor
(Matching tags: DACs,Streaming,Receivers,Processors,Preamp)
The AV receiver has become a very important component in home theater today. This box is the hub that ties all our other components together. Everything runs to and from this key device. While receivers ...
7. Naim Audio DAC
(Matching tags: DACs,Audiophile)
A Naim DAC. Oh how long we have waited. Naim Audio is hi-fi company with its own ideas. For years they held steadfastly to their claim that the only by keeping the spinning CD in the same box as the ...
8. Neko Audio D100 Mk 2 Stereo DAC
(Matching tags: DACs,Audio Components,Audiophile)
DACs are taking over. I’ve been waiting for this day ever since the CD format came out because DACs provide an upgrade path. Upgrading is fun. And because DACs are cool. The conversion from digital to ...
9. NuForce Icon HDP USB DAC
(Matching tags: DACs,Headphones,USB)
In the past couple of years, the market for DAC's with USB inputs has really taken off. As people move their whole music library over to a music server, and lossless and high resolution downloads of ...
10. HD Micromega AirStream Wireless DAC
(Matching tags: DACs,Wireless,Networks)
At this year's CES in Las Vegas, I had the opportunity to attend an event for an unusual little device being dubbed a "Wireless DAC." Upon arriving, I saw a box of the plainest kind, about the size of ...
11. Rotel RSX-1560 7.1 A/V Receiver
(Matching tags: DACs,Receivers)
The RSX-1560 is Rotel's flagship receiver in their new Series 15 audio components. The new cosmetic look of the 15 series is simply stunning and very elegant. More importantly, the 1560 posses two firsts ...
The iPod dock/speaker market continues to grow every year and more high end speaker manufacturers are joining the game. Products range from cheap and flimsy $20 plastic models to higher end models such ...
13. NAIM Audio Recap Tour
(Matching tags: DACs,Power Supply)
In my recent review of the Primaluna Dialogue Two I complained that tubes require maintenance. I didn’t complain much as Primaluna does a great job of minimizing those requirements. I should have held ...
14. Cambridge Audio DacMagic
(Matching tags: DACs,24 bit 192 kHz,24 Bit 96 kHz)
Cambridge Audio has come up with a product that has wowed everyone: the DacMagic. For $479, you get a DAC that is fully differential (a stereo DAC on each of the two channels), upsampling to 24/192, very ...
15. Benchmark DAC1 USB
(Matching tags: DACs,CD,HDCD,Jitter,24 bit 192 kHz)
My initial review of the DAC1 Digital-to-Analog Converter appeared in these pages toward the end of 2003. As I wrote at that time, Allen Burdick of Benchmark Media explained that the DAC1, then retailing ...
16. Quantization Error
(Matching tags: DACs,DVD,CD,DVD A)
One stream of 16 on or off bits constitutes one of the samples of musical information. . .
17. Upsampling
(Matching tags: DACs,DVD A)
Because moderns DACs can handle 24 bit - 192 kHz samples...  ...
18. Oversampling
(Matching tags: DACs,CD,DVD A,DSP)
Many audio engineers feel that a higher sampling rate would...
19. Multibit DACs vs. 1 Bit DACs
(Matching tags: DACs,DVD,CD,Jitter)
Some CD players use multibit DACs (the bits are read in groups), and some use 1 bit DACs . . .  ...
20. Laserdisc (LD)
(Matching tags: DACs,DVD,CD,LD)
Laserdiscs (LD) use much of the same technology. . .
21. Jitter
(Matching tags: DACs,CD,Jitter)
An artifact called "jitter" remains a difficulty...
22. DAC
(Matching tags: DACs,CD)
So, as the disc spins along, 44.1 thousand samples...
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