My Video Review: I just counted that in the last 18 months I have covered slightly more than 45 digital sources on this website, somebody called me DACman privately over social media for obvious reasons. That made me giggle but also question myself if indeed there is a DAC problem buried deep in …

My Video Review: Delta-Sigma pulse modulation DACs (D/S from now on) are approaching its peak right now, challenging the best audio analyzers on the planet and our hearing abilities. Multi-thousand dollars DACs of the past are outperformed nowadays by units that are costing less than $1K. You …

My Video Review: When SMSL released their SP200 – a THX based achromatic audio headphone amplifier, it created ripples in the headphone amp market due to its great sound quality, high output power and super affordable price point. That product was one of the main reasons Drop lowered the price of …

My Video Review: When I finished my FiiO BTR5 review, I was so impressed by its performance and overall sound quality in both wired and wireless mode that I immediately sent an email and a tweet to FiiO, literally begging for a DAP the size of M5 or slightly bigger, without any wireless …

My Video Review: When my Topping D90 review went live and dropped here, it literally dropped like a bomb, our bandwidth was barely keeping-up, servers were barely holding together, I never expected having so many readers. To this day, it was read more than 60.000 times, it is still my most read …

My Video Review: Once I started testing a lot of digital sources from all over Asia, few of our readers suggested testing some of the digital to analog converters from the Gustard team. After some research, we found that Gustard is quite popular in China, especially over Erji.net they have quite a …

My Video Review: I still remember it clearly when Audio-GD announced that they bought the latest batches of the best commercial made DAC chips from Burr-Brown, the legendary PCM1704 chips that everyone wanted to have in their digital sources. That news had a twofold effect on me. On one hand I was …

My Video Review: SMSL Audio might sound like a fairly new brand in the West, but for the East market SMSL just celebrated its 10th Anniversary and yet it feels just like a prologue for a long journey ahead for them. As a lot of brands from the land of the red dragon, SMSL is focused mostly on …

My Video Review: Topping is one of those brands that is just not stopping from releasing new products that cater for the affordable, mid-fi or hi-fi market. The rest of world crumbles in fear, buying toilet paper, canned food or just staying at home quarantined, yet Topping is waving hello with …

My Video Review: With the release of their entry level Digital-To-Analog-Converter Ares – which symbolizes the God Of War in Greek Mythology, Denafrips officially announced a long-term-assault and declared war to the Delta-Sigma DACs found in 99% of all your modern audio sources as smartphones, …

My Video Review: Shanling is known to be making portable digital audio players for quite some time now. M3 digital audio player that debuted in 2014 came like a storm, even at that time it had DSD playback capabilities, it had a big battery capacity, an interesting Cirrus Logic chipset, lots of …

My Video Review: You might have heard about a company from the land of the Red Dragon called Audio-GD. They are crafting anything really in the digital and analog domain. From simple DAC and headphone amp units to big and heavy integrated amps and mono-blocks. In the early days of headphone …

My Video Review: Who would thought that at their flagship year from its inception, FiiO would announce at their Winter Launch Event in an One More Thing stunt, their highest performance and highly anticipated M15 DAP. What was quite unusual even for FiiO is that instead of just showing it to the …

My Video Review: I knew Topping was brewing something new about one year ago, something that would sit on an iron throne in their product line, in the summer of 2019 I found out it’s their flagship D90 DAC that just entered its final polishing stage. Taking into consideration that Topping is …

My Video Review: Without too much fanfare on 30 July of this year (2019), FiiO dropped the bomb and announced their latest and greatest M11 PRO DAP in a Facebook post. To this day, that one was the most commented post in FiiOs history and a clear message that people were genuinely excited about …

My Video Review: Shanling is known to be making portable digital audio players for quite some time now. M3 digital audio player that debuted in 2014 came like a storm, even at that time it had DSD playback capabilities, it had a big capacity battery, an interesting Cirrus Logic chipset, lots of …

My Unboxing video: My video Review: Disclaimer: Burson Conductor 3 Reference was loaned to us for a two-week evaluation in exchange for our honest opinion. We thank team Burson Audio for this opportunity! It all started about 2 years ago when I sent an email to Burson Audio asking when Conductor …

My video Review: Disclaimer: Topping D50S was sent to us as a review unit in exchange for our honest opinion. We thank team Apos Audio for this opportunity! This year was such a busy year for Topping and I’m sure it was their best one yet. Topping released two incredible DACs that can fight in the …

My video review: Disclaimer: xDuoo XD-05 Plus was sent to us as a review unit in exchange for our honest opinion. We thank team Xtenik Audio for this opportunity! The headphone jack of modern smartphones looks like a beautiful forgotten dream and since no one wants to use outdated smartphones just …

Disclaimer: Topping DX7 Pro was sent to us as a review unit in exchange for our honest opinion. We thank team Apos Audio for this opportunity! My Unboxing Video: My Full-Video Review: In January 2019 Topping announced that they are almost finishing their flagship DX7 PRO DAC and everybody …

Disclaimer: SMSL M500 was send to us as a review unit in exchange for our honest opinion. We thank team Apos Audio for this opportunity. My video review: Kunal of Apos Audio kindly provided the review sample to us and introduced to the SMSL family of products. This is our first contact with SMSL …

My video Review: Disclaimer: Sound BlasterX G6 was sent to us free of charge in exchange for our honest opinion. We thank team Creative Labs for this opportunity. OK guys, confession time: Yes, I game myself time and time again. I’m mostly a single-player type of gamer, searching for nice and …

My video review: Disclaimer: Topping D70 was sent to us free of charge in exchange for our honest opinion. We thank team Topping for this opportunity. If I would ask you few years ago about Topping you would raise your shoulders, however nowadays it is a different picture as this brand also rhymes …

My video review: One of the most advanced, if not The most advanced portable DAC and headphone amp that could be connected wired or wireless to a smartphone was FiiO Q5 released about one year ago – a marvelous piece of equipment that worked with PCs/Laptops and with Android or iOS devices alike, …

My video review: FiiO released a lot of portable devices capable of playing back music for the general public or for starry-eyed audiophiles, they even shown efforts for the wireless aficionados and released few products as well. At FiiO Spring Festival 2019 was shown a product what was positioned …

My video review: Converting vinyl lovers to digital music is like converting vegetarians, that will most likely never happen. Well, except if a digital source is not sounding “digital” anymore. That was the basic idea behind R-2R Ladder DACs that are doing things differently compared to …

Disclaimer: KECES S3 was send to us as a review unit in exchange for our honest opinion. We thank team KECES for this opportunity. My video review: KECES Audio is proudly making Digital to Analog Converters for more than 10 years already. I still remember researching for affordable DACs at that …

This is my 4-way DAC Comparison/Review that I hope will help you choose the right DAC for you. My video review: Hey everyone, as promised my 4-way DAC comparison is ready and here are my findings. All of them except for DAC 3 L were reviewed around here and my personal DAC is the X-Sabre Pro, all …

Disclaimer: Matrix Audio Element X was loaned to me directly from the factory. It will be returned back after the test period ends. My video review: In the fall of 2018 Matrix Audio shown the world the face of their newest Element series of products. Being an early adopter and later on an owner of …

My video review: Designed in New York, USA and Made in Poland proudly says the founder Michal Jurewicz about their products. He founded Mytek Digital in 1992 in New York but a couple of years have passed until their first product seen the light of the day. All the assembly work was moved entirely …