Let's start with a picture (Blue Halo close-up with 2x Hytron 6C5GTs) Background: You all, like me - love music. That is the main reason we do all of this playing about and obsessing! We also love gear of course. This post is about a great piece of gear that offers plenty of musical appreciation opportunity. Whilst I'm science-minded, this will not be a science/measurements focussed review. The amp designer/builder certainly did build from an engineers perspective so "science has been applied", but I won't focus on it. I am aware of the various...

Introduction I have had ~2.5 weeks of constant use of a new SW1X DAC II. I think it is an exciting DAC that doesn't have any commentary here on head-fi. Therefore, I thought I'd try to add a review. To caveat, while I went to school for audio engineering (around a thousand years ago), I am a not someone with hundreds of device reviews nor am I any sort of "expert" in this domain. I am also a human full of biases (like we all are!). I am a science-minded person and generally aware of various biases. I have done my best to check my biases, as well as...