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Desktop Equipment is mainly made to be used at home or at your main desk, and it is not generally intended to be portable. This includes Speakers, DACs, AMPs, even Headphones, and desktop equipment is generally larger and / or needs access to a power outlet to work. HIFI products are generally considered desktop equipment, although you can find some which can be used portably.
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Views 3,385 Shanling EH1 is a $219 USD Entry-Level DAC / Headphone AMP designed for desktop usage, with a Cirrus Logic CS43198 DAC at the heart, and up to 1015mW at 32 OHMs of driving power, and with a 4.4mm headphone output too. Today we will review the EH1 and …
Views 4,310 Ricable Invictus XLR is a $862 USD per pair set of high-end flagship cables with XLR connectors, designed for the best of systems out there, part of the invictus series, and with the code 12786 on the Ricable website. Today we will review the absolute prestige of the …
Views 3,610 The Audience Forte F5 is a $649 USD power cable, and in my pondering for what does actually influence the sound of a system, I saw many times how audiophiles with high-end stereo systems swear by power chords, so I decided to give it a go. While cables …
Views 4,362 HIFIMAN Susvara is the $6000 USD flagship, currently considered the best planar magnetic headphone created by most users, and it has every single one of HIFIMAN’s engineering marvels under the hood. Today we will review the Susvara and see how it pairs, how it matches with certain sources, …
Views 3,618 ddHiFi AS100 is a $43 USD IEM and Electronics storage solution that is designed to feel and look like a high-end ashtray, offering a central pole for keeping IEMS free of tangling, but also offering enough space for microSD cards, eartips and other miscellaneous items that typically clutter …
Views 3,990 Fosi Audio ZA3 is a $175 USD Balanced Stereo Power Amplifier based on the TPA3255 Chip, designed to run either in stereo mode, and act as an integrated amplifier for your stereo setup, or be used in Mono mode, with two ZA3 working together to power up your …
Views 3,506 SE Electronics RF Space is a $229 USD acoustic isolator for microphones, designed for recording studios, and places that don’t have a perfect acoustic treatment, but where you’d want to record without echo and with a lower distortion than the room would allow. Today we will review the …
Views 4,591 Ricable Invictus Speaker Reference MKII is a $1738 USD high-end cable for high-end flagship speaker systems, and it is the absolute prestige, the best cable Ricable currently has in store for music lovers. Today we will review the RS4 MKII, the 4 meter version of the High-End Shielded …
Views 3,795 Shanling EC Smart is a $149 USD CD Player design to spin compact discs vertically in the air, with a Cirrus /Logic CS43131 DAC at the heart, Line-Out, Headphone output, Bluetooth connection, and with a metallic construction, being likely the most advanced entry-level CD player to exist out …
Views 3,563 Ricable Invictus Signal Reference RT1 is a $689 USD / 689 Euro per pair of RCA cables with a directionality, Noise Reduction, and they are the absolute prestige of Ricable’s current cable offering for RCA interconnects. Today we will review the RT1 Interconnect RCA from the Invictus Series, …
Views 3,889 FiiO BTR17 is a $199 USD portable Bluetooth DAC, Headphone Amplifier that can be used as a desktop DAC/AMP, wired and wireless, and which has both a single ended and a balanced headphone output. With a flagship Dual DAC ES9096Q and a maximum driving power of 650mW x2 …
Views 3,831 Fosi Audio MC351 is a $202 USD (for the variant we’re testing with the 32V Power Supply) DAC, Integrated Headphone Amplifier, with a VU Meter, Bluetooth Receiver, and it has a 2.1 Channels configuration, including both speaker outputs and an output for both a different pair of active …
Views 5,117 Fosi Audio ZD3 is a $219 USD desktop DAC with a high performance ES9039Q2M DAC at the heart, XLR output, Trigger input and output, and which also allows Tube Rolling. Toda we will study the sound and design of the ZD3, how it works in multiple sonic systems, …
Views 3,889 SMSL PA40 is a $139 USD Speaker Power Amplifier with an integrated PRE function, with a Low Distortion, Low Noise and Low power consumption as the core advantages for this ultra entry-level design. Today we will explore the PA40, how it actually sounds like and if it is …
Views 4,562 iFi Zen Blue V3 is a $299 USD Desktop Lossless Bluetooth Transmitter and Receiver, with an embedded DAC, and with a high-quality Qualcomm 5.4 QC5181 chipset, and a balanced 4.4mm output, alongside some of the most impressive bluetooth abilities seen in the audio world. Today we will explore …
Views 5,718 With the winter holidays drawing us closer to each other and to our families, it is time to be grateful that we survived another year, that we got to listen to so much excellent music, to meet so many new awesome people, and to explore this wonderful hobby …
Views 8,160 HIFIMAN He1000 Unveiled is the $2699 USD culmination of the HE1000 series of headphones, now having the Unveiled Driver that we’ve seen in the Susvara Unveiled, so today we review the best He1000 the world has seen, and compare it with other similarly priced headphones we recently reviewed …
Views 10,232 Sparkos Gemini is a $995 USD Tube Headphone Amplifier with RCA inputs, RCA outputs, XLR Headphone outputs, and with Sparkos Labs SS2590 Discrete OPA Output Stage. Today we will review the Sparkos Gemini and compare it with other headphone amplifiers we recently reviewed, including Aune S17 PRO (699 …
Views 11,758 Creative Sound Blaster G8 is a $149 USD desktop DAC / AMP with a Dual DAC inside, Hi-Res decoding support, and Proprietary XAMP dedicated amplifier. Today we will review the G8 and explore how it works, how it sounds like and if it would make a good purchase …
Views 17,103 NeoHipo ET30 is a $159 USD stereo VU Meter designed for speaker systems, to bring a bit of that vintage charm to modern setups. Today we will review the ET30 and explore whether it changes the sound in any way, as well as what exactly it does for …
Views 15,597 ECDesigns UT96 and UT192 are a $125 USD and $325 USD USB to Toslink converters that work with all ECDesigns DACs, as well as any other DAC out there, basically doing a stellar job at converting a USB digital signal to an Optical Signal. We will explore UT96 …
Views 19,901 Audience Studio One is a $2899 USD pair of speaker cables, priced this for the length I needed which is 4 meters. The price for a short, 1.5 meters is $1899 USD. The version we will review today comes with BFA connectors on both ends, but you can …
Views 20,521 Tronsmart Mirtune S100 is a $79 USD Outdoor / Public usage Bluetooth speaker, with a powerful sound and tubular build. Today we will explore the S100, how it stacks against the competition and whether it is a good option for those who are in the entry-level range and …
Views 18,670 R_Volution PlayerOne 8K is a $899 USD high-end media player, compatible with both Dolby Vision and HDR10+, capable of streaming content to other R_Volution devices in a network and internal hard drive bays, for storing your favorite TV Shows, Movies and live concerts. R_Volution PlayerOne 8K is also …
Views 28,424 SMSL B200 is a $85 USD Bluetooth Receiver and DAC, with a very rectangular design, and a 2.33″ display at the front. Today we will explore the B200, what it is, how it works, and how it sounds. Introduction SMSL is one of the most popular Chifi …
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