Yet another new Audio-GD DAC! It looks like the NFB3 with a "flavor" button to select the oversampling and digital filter response:     http://www.audio-gd.com/Pro/dac/NFB3-2011/NFB3.1EN.htm   Edit: Sorry, looks like old news already - being discussed in the NFB-2 & NFB-3 Delivery &...

Just saw this little new product on the Audio-GD website. Sabre DAC with coax, optical, and 24/96 USB input. Variable and fixed DAC output,  Headphone amp. Looks nice!     http://www.audio-gd.com/Pro/Headphoneamp/NFB11/NFB11EN.htm

This looks like a very interesting new CD transport + DAC + optional preamp.   See this press release: http://www.andygilesassociates.co.uk/cms/pdf/press_280.pdf   Lots of nice features including: 24/96 asynch USB, 8x ESS Sabre DAC, balanced + rca outs, reasonable price, etc

I've been asked about the Mytek Stereo96 DAC a few times by PM, so I'm posting some comments here. There are 3 versions of the DAC: the original with AES and SPDIF in, the 2nd version with 2x SPDIF, AES, and Toslink in, and now a third version that adds USB in and some other new features. (not...

I'm just reading the Stereophile CES blog and it looks like there are lots of interesting new DAC's and source components forthcoming. Some appealing looking picks: New Bel Canto DACs Simaudio Moon 300D DAC Furutech GT40 USB DAC with Phono Stage Not sure if these have been discussed yet...

I emailed Berkeley Audio Design to inquire about the possibility of a new Alpha DAC with asynchronous USB input. Not in the works, but it seems they are working on a USB to AES converter. Here is part of the response I got from Michael Ritter: Could be a very good computer to DAC solution.

I know the topic has been discussed plenty before, but I'm really dumb-founded by all of the recommendations for tube amps for HD650's. IMO, HD650's are one of the few phones that I would not want to listen to with a tube amp at all. Yes, that might be an over-simplification, since there are...

Here's an interesting new DAC in the works: As I understand, Per Abrahamsen is one of the founders of Electrocompaniet, and he is involved with this relatively new company Abrahamsen. I recently picked up an Abrahamsen V2.0 integrated amp, which sounds very nice.

I've been thinking about picking up one of these mini-notebooks for storage, player, and transport for a mini-system hooked up to a DAC/amp and phones. (Asus Eee PC, Acer Aspire One, Dell E, HP Mini Note, MSI Wind) Two concerns: 1) My main concern is noise from the unit. I read that the HP...

Any impressions on either of these headphones? They might be decent portables, but I'm just guessing. Here are the manufacturers links: Creative Aurvana Live: AURVANA Live! Headphones | Headphones & Headsets Philips SHP 5400: SHP5400/00 - Stereo Headphones - Indoor headphones -...

Here's the deal: I have recently started ripping CD's to FLAC using CDEX. When playing them in Foobar they sound great, but weird things happen: * No progress is shown in the track slider bar. * All tracks are shown to be 3:22:54 long. * Weird values for kpbs are shown. (12kbps, 17kbps...

This could be interesting news for Icepower fans. New Icepower modules announced: http://www.icepower.bang-olufsen.com/ Be on the lookout for new giant killer amps built with these.

Whoah, looks sweet: http://www.little-tube.com/forum/for...p?TID=107&PN=1

Duh!!!! Wrong forum, sorry.

I was chilling out today to Sheila Chandra - ABoneCroneDrone, and thought it would be interesting to pick up some Didgeridoo based music. For those who don't know what that is, here's the wikipedia entry for that instrument: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Didgeridoo I fairly randomly picked...

A new "Metal folk protest?" album from Neil Young, "Living With War". Anybody heard? I'm not a big fan of Neil's latest stuff, but this should rock. It will stream from his website starting on Friday. http://www.neilyoung.com/

I have Senn HD 650's on the way from Germany and I also have my heart set on a Corda Aria to drive them. This is probably a no-brainer, but would the HD 650's be anywhere near fully satisfying straight from my Marantz SR 4600 av-receiver headphone out? I couldn't find any specs on the headphone...