QUAD rebirths iconic 33 pre-amplifier & 303 power amplifier
Oct 18, 2024 · The industrial design of the originals remains intact. After showing prototypes at Munich High-End 2024, QUAD has formally announced the rebirth of two iconic products: the 33 pre-amplifier and 303 power amplifier. First released in 1967, the originals landed as all-transistor designs in a world dominated by tube amplifiers and with an industrial design that would eventually earn them a place ...
Bose buys McIntosh, Sonus faber & Sumiko | Darko.Audio
Nov 19, 2024 · FULL PRESS RELEASE. November 19, 2024 – Today, Bose Corporation, a company synonymous with delivering amazing, premium audio experiences since its founding, announced the acquisition of McIntosh Group, the parent company of renowned high-performance and luxury audio brands that include McIntosh and Sonus faber. McIntosh Group manufactures the world’s finest amplifiers, speakers, turntables ...
Darko’s Best of 2024 (Part 1): the Moondrop MIAD-01 smartphone
Dec 13, 2024 · There’s enough on offer here soundwise to turn my back on DAPs for the foreseeable future. Yes, I know I said in 2018 that ‘the DAP days were over’ – but that was before the majority of DAP manufacturers moved to smartphone-like Android operating systems with Google Play Store access or, at the very least, a white list of installable apps.
Cambridge Audio readies EXA100 amplifier, EXN100 streamer
Oct 9, 2024 · New from Cambridge Audio: the EXA100 integrated amplifier and the EXN100 streaming DAC. Let’s dive in. According to Cambridge, the EXA100 is the spiritual successor to the Azur 851 range, promising 100wpc of Class A/B amplification from power transistors pulled from the company’s more costly Edge M monoblocks.
Eversolo announces flagship DMP-A10 streaming DAC | Darko.Audio
Oct 28, 2024 · Good, better, best. It’s a marketing strategy as old as stereo sound.We’ve already seen Eversolo’s ‘good’: the DMP-A6 was 2023’s runaway hit (review here and here).Later that year came the DMP-A8, which (to these ears) sounded quite a bit ‘better’ (review here and here).Now comes the Chinese company’s moonshot: the DMP-A10.
CD-quality Bluetooth audio is now a reality: but is it worth it?
Mar 21, 2024 · Lossless audio over Bluetooth? It used to be a pipe dream. Now, according to Qualcomm, it’s a reality. Over the last few weeks and months, I’ve been listening to music through three sets of true wireless IEMs, all supporting Qualcomm’s latest flavour of aptX: aptX Lossless.
DUNU’s Concept R is a retro-futuristic portable CD player (and I …
Nov 13, 2024 · This isn’t a new story. The product in question hasn’t even been (formally) announced. So far, we’ve only seen a social media video teaser and a public outing at September’s Shenzhen Audio Show. By all accounts, the internal design isn’t quite finished.
20 more thoughts on the new Quad 33 and 303 | Darko.Audio
Nov 27, 2024 · The 2024 Quad 303 power amplifier. 16. Quad refers to the original 303 as “the world’s first low-distortion transistor amplifier”, so claimed because of the 303’s ‘triples’ output stage that effectively formed a feedback amplifier-within-an-amplifier.This reportedly required less negative feedback to net lower distortion and better thermal stability.
Denon’s DCD-3000NE is a ‘Reference Series’ SACD/CD player
Dec 12, 2024 · Denon has announced the DCD-3000NE – a new ‘Reference Series’ SACD and CD player – that will read SACDs, CDs, DVD-R/RW and DVD+R/RW discs.
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