Category: Videos
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First Impressions: Zorloo ZuperDAC-S In The House!
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Today I’m checking out the Zorloo ZuperDAC-S, a new portable DAC/AMP currently up for offer on the crowdfunding site Indiegogo. I intend to put up a full review very soon, but today I just want to give my first impressions of the product. The ZuperDAC-S is a follow-up to Zorloo’s original ZuperDAC which was a…
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Watch It Wednesday: Introducing Nucleus By Roon
Last May, Roon Labs announced they would be releasing a Intel NUC based Music Server called Nucleus for their Roon Music management software, and it seems like they are beginning to ship to US Dealers. It also looks like Roon is promoting the newly available Nucleus by Roon with this flashy vid showing off the…
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Watch It Wednesday: Jazzmeia Horn Performing the Jazz Standard, “Moanin’”
Earlier in the month, I named Jazzmeia Horn’s album “A Social Call” one of my Favorite Jazz albums of 2017, so I was really happy to see her performing as part of the Grammy festivities this weekend…here’s her singing one of the songs from that album, a rendition of the Jon Hendricks‘ vocalese treatment of…
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Watch It Wednesday: What Is The Future Of Class D Amplification?
This week for Watch It Wednesday, I have a great video from Paul McGowan of PS Audio, talking about the drawbacks and benefits of Class D Amps. In my travels around the web, I hear many people totally discount the place of Class D or Hybrid Digital amps in high fidelity, but like most things…
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Watch It Wednesday: Chord Electronics Hugo 2 – The Legend Remastered
Chord Electronics posted a cool new video on their YouTube channel yesterday promoting the highly regarded Hugo 2 DAC, the upgraded version of the original Hugo DAC, which was already considered to be one of the best portable DAC’s ever made. The vid breaks down the internal and external features of the new HUGO, and…
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Watch These Awesome Jazz Concerts with 3D Audio!
Want to check out a Jazz concert in Switzerland? Well thanks to Moods Jazzclub in Switzerland, and Sennheiser AMBEO 3D Audio technology, you can watch a video while listening with any set of headphones and feel like you have a front row seat. The videos are part of Moods Digital Concert Club, a platform with…
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ICYMI: Great Hi-Fi Articles from the Past Week
Great article about the best Noise Cancelling headphones on the market (no, not Bose)– http://www.digitalaudioreview.net/2018/01/letters-to-the-editor-bowers-wilkins-px/ Cool tour of Bower & Wilkins’ 800 Series factory– http://www.hifiplus.com/articles/meet-your-maker-bowers-wilkins/ Inner Fidelity’s Tyll Hertsens runs down the best headphones of 2017 (as usual, he manages to work some surprises in there)– https://www.innerfidelity.com/content/2017-innerfidelity-top-ten-best-headphones-year Stereophile sits down with Jazz Great Ron Carter and…
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ICYMI: Great Hi-Fi and Music Articles from 2017
Here are some of the great Hi-Fi and music articles I read in 2017…. Great story behind the creation of one of the most innovative BT Headphones on the market- https://www.digitaltrends.com/home-theater/audio-technicas-ath-dsrbt9-aptx-hd-bluetooth-headphones-were-almost-never-made/ Stereophile’s nod to some of the best budget gear of 2017- https://www.stereophile.com/content/stereophiles-products-2017-joint-budget-components-year Sennheiser releases a redesign of its iconic and legendary HD650 headphone- https://newatlas.com/sennheiser-hd660s-open-back-headphones/51750/…