MUTEC MC1.2+ HIGH-PERFORMANCE BI-DIRECTIONAL DIGITAL AUDIO CONVERTER
SOTM INTRODUCES THE SMS-2000 FLAGSHIP NETWORK SERVER AND STREAMER
The SOtM SMS-2000 Network Server And Streamer is the South Korean HiFi brand’s new flagship.
UNVEILING THE £200K dCS VARÈSE
Janine Elliot travels to Bedforshire to check out the new dCS Varèse, a five-box digital audio system that aims to set a new standard for music reproduction.
MELCO E100A DIGITAL MUSIC USB STORAGE SOLUTION LAUNCHED
Japanese HiFi brand Melco introduces the Melco E100A digital music USB storage solution, the second generation of this product.
MELCO LAUNCHES AN ALL-NEW FLAGSHIP MUSIC LIBRARY THE N1-S38
Launched at The Bristol HiFi Show over the weekend, the Melco N1-S38 is the Japanese brand’s new flagship SSD-based digital music library.
THE ENTIRE MELCO RANGE COMING TO BRISTOL
Melco’s full range will be on display at Bristol, along with a very special, as yet to be announced, newcomer.
THE JAPANESE HIFI BRAND LAUNCH THEIR NEW MELCO S100/2 DATA SWITCH
The new Melco S100/2 Data Switch builds on the Japanese HiFi brand’s original ‘audiophile’ data switch with key performance upgrades.
THE MELCO AUDIO N10/2 DIGITAL MUSIC LIBRARY IS THE JAPANESE HIFI BRAND’S NEW MK2 FLAGSHIP
Japanese brand Melco has launched a new range-topping digital music library, the Melco Audio N10/2.
MELCO N100-H50 DIGITAL MUSIC LIBRARY LAUNCHED
Melco Audio has upgraded its entry-level N100-H20 digital music library, creating a new high-capacity HDD variant, the Melco N100-H50, which more than doubles the original device’s music storage capability.
INTONATION AUDIO TECHNOLOGY INTRODUCE NEW SOUND TECHNIQUES
Intonation Audio Technology are an Irish company that are launching new techniques to recover lost digital information, preserve analogue sound integrity and allow analogue sound to be held in small files.
SOTM SNI-1G AUDIO GRADE NETWORK CARD RELEASED
High End digital audio brand SOtM from Korea, has released their new SOtM SNI-1G audio grade network card.
Melco’s latest 4.10 firmware enables its Japanese-engineered libraries for the latest version of Roon.
Daniel Weiss of Weiss Engineering Switzerland has been awarded the Technical GRAMMY Award 2021.
Hifi Pig first reviewed the LEEMA LIBRA DAC way back in August 2016. In this update to
that review, Stuart Smith takes a slightly different viewpoint and makes very different conclusions, but based on very similar findings, to the initial review.
It’s black every day with Melco’s new black finish option rolling out across the half-width N10 Series.
Melco, who specialise in high-performance digital music storage solutions, is offering free warranty upgrades with all new digital music library purchases (in the UK) registered online.
Bryston has introduced native support for the Qobuz streaming music service as an available firmware update for Bryston’s BDP Music Players. Qobuz, the world’s first certified high-resolution (24-bit/up to 192 kHz) streaming service, enables users to stream uncompressed content from a library of over 40 million tracks. Qobuz first became available to European consumers in 2007.
Chord Electronics has just unveiled, at CanJam London 2018, the Hugo M Scaler, a standalone upscaler which Chord say is “capable of redefining sound quality from digital audio”. Hugo M Scaler uses advanced filter technology to upscale standard 44.1kHz digital audio up to 705.6kHz (16x CD’s 44.1kHz native resolution), ready to be passed to a suitable DAC; Hugo M Scaler extends its upscaling performance to 768kHz (from 96kHz input data) for dual-BNC-input Chord Electronics DACs: DAVE, Qutest and the new Hugo TT 2. More »
Chord Electronics has just unveiled, at CanJam London 2018, the Hugo M Scaler, a standalone upscaler which Chord say is “capable of redefining sound quality from digital audio”. Hugo M Scaler uses advanced filter technology to upscale standard 44.1kHz digital audio up to 705.6kHz (16x CD’s 44.1kHz native resolution), ready to be passed to a suitable DAC; Hugo M Scaler extends its upscaling performance to 768kHz (from 96kHz input data) for dual-BNC-input Chord Electronics DACs: DAVE, Qutest and the new Hugo TT 2. More »
The new Innuos ZENith Statement music server builds on their ZENith Special Edition. More »
The market for Digital Audio Players is fiercely competitive with new brands entering the fray constantly. As such a new product has to either offer excellent for money or sound cut above the competition. At £290 the ATC HDA-DP20 comes in at a mid-priced product which could be a good choice if the sound quality, build and ease of use are on a par with more expensive units. Janine Elliot takes a listen. More »
The SotM (Sound of the music) tX-USBUltra works as a hub by receiving and distributing USB audio signals, but also regenerating the USB Audio signal with it’s super clock module the sCLK-EX. More »
Oxford Audio Consultants will be holding an event devoted to streaming. More »
The Tivoli ‘Model One Digital’ table-top radio refreshes the classic design of Tivoli’s original Model One with music streaming and multi-room capability. More »
Karma-AV is has announced the availability of the Mark Levinson № 519 Audio Player. They say, “The № 519 has the ability to play virtually any digital audio format and provides a full complement of wired and wireless digital audio inputs from USB asynchronous streaming and mass storage, Gigabit Ethernet, Balanced, Optical, Coaxial, Wi-Fi, aptX® Bluetooth, and an integrated slot-loading CD player. In addition, the № 519 includes high-performance headphone connectivity and integrated digital volume control allowing it to serve as a fully integrated digital music source”. More »
