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Tucker Bowe has been on Gear Patrol’s editorial team since 2014. As a Tech Staff Writer, he tracks everything in the consumer tech space, from headphones to smartphones, wearables to home theater ...
When the company launched in 2010, the Asgard, a headphone amplifier priced at $249, was its original offering. Now it has released a new iteration, the Asgard X, which is an affordable headphone amp ...
We first glimpsed a prototype of Chord Electronics' Suzi Pre and Suzi Amp at last year's High End Munich 2024, with its LEGO-like modular forms designed to work on their own, in a compact pre/power ...
The new Rotel DX-3 combines an exceptionally well specified, high-performance Headphone Amplifier, Pre-Amplifier and stand-alone DAC in a superbly designed single component measuring an ultra ...
Headphone users will also appreciate a dedicated headphone amplifier circuit for those moments where you want to escape from it all and hog all the tunes for yourself. Denon PMA-900HNE At home in the ...
This is not your average DAC and would doubtless consider itself above even the best headphone DACs we've tested. In fact, it costs more than my entire hi-fi setup combined, but that doesn't mean ...
Lastly, the front panel headphone socket is backed by a headphone amplifier with “low output impedance and high output voltage capability”. The NAD C379 will begin shipping at the end of June for ...
A highlight of the EF500 is HIFIMAN’s Hymalaya LE R2R DAC, which is designed to provide superior sonic performance to the more commonplace PCM1704k module. The Hymalaya LE, with the added support of a ...
The Fiio K7 desktop DAC and headphone amplifier is a remarkable value for anyone looking to improve their computer’s audio output. It’s not portable, nor is it designed to amplify audio for ...
At $799, the versatile EF600 serves as a headphone stand, high-resolution Bluetooth transmitter and balanced desktop DAC/Amplifier. CanJam NYC 2023 starts in 3 days but that hasn’t stopped HiFiMAN ...
The SACD 30n features a dedicated headphone amplifier module using the Marantz HDAM-SA2 circuitry. Marantz SACD 30n Back panel view The SACD 30n doesn’t have XLR outputs, which is unfortunate at this ...
The acclaimed manufacturer of all things high-end audio/video has just announced its latest audiophile-grade sound system. The C 389 HybridDigital DAC amplifier offers NAD’s latest Modular Design ...