Ferrum ERCO 2 Pros: Excellent Power Compact Great Sounding Guitars Excellent Highs Presentation Price/Performance Build Quality Mediocre: Extremely Simplistic Controls No Screen Bull: No 4-pin XLR Output BLUF: The Erco is … Continue reading Ferrum ERCO 2
Cayin-8 Stack – iHA-8/iDAC-8 Pros: Excellent Power Great sound and Expansive Soundstage Beautiful Vocals-forward tuning Useful connections Gorgeous/Robust Construction Excellent Tactile buttons/knobs Mediocre: Filters Menu Timeout Speed Rubber Feet Slide … Continue reading Cayin-8 Stack – iHA-8/iDAC-8
iFi iCAN Phantom Pros: Amazingly versatile capability Excellent Sound Quality, Space, and Detail Useful tuning buttons All-In-One Amp design Powerful Size Mediocre: Price Looks Bull: Nexis App BLUF: The most versatile … Continue reading iFi Phantom Amp
Eversolo DMP-A8 Pros: Excellent Interface Excellent Sound Quality, Space, and Detail The App Rocks Mediocre: Size and Weight Bull: No Volume Normalization Setting In Tidal Up for review today is the Eversolo DMP-A8 Swiss-Army Knife … Continue reading Eversolo DMP-A8
R U Ready For This? Pros: Great valueVery good soundSmall and lightWorks with mobile and desktopGreat battery consumptionGreat build quality Cons: No Lightning adapter includedSlightly largeSlightly expensiveDoesn’t sound as good as more expensive DAPs Overview: Up for review today is the Cayin … Continue reading Cayin RU7 DAC/Amp Dongle
The best “budget” DAP Pros: Sound QualityUser InterfaceDesignScreenHeat DissipationWeightPower OutputPriceComes with a leather case Cons: Battery LifeCase ButtonsNo Volume Knob Overview: Up for review today is the HiBy R6 Pro II (gen 2) Digital Audio Player (DAP). Yes, that name makes little to no sense since HiBy already has an R6 III, which is completely unrelated to the R6 Pro II (and the original R6 Pro). When I say completely unrelated, I mean that they have completely different design languages and specs. HiBy likely should have just called this the R7 or it should have called the R6 III the R5 III … Continue reading HiBy R6 Pro II
Who Knew Big Bird Was A GOAT? Pros: Software/UISound QualityWeightBuild QualityPrice Cons: Yellow Overview: Photos coming soon. Up for review today is the Cayin N7 – which I have officially dubbed “BIG BIRD!” I received this Digital Audio Player (DAP) from Musicteck (shop.musicteck.com) with a discount in exchange for a review. As always, this in no way impacts how I review things, and I will still sarcastically call out things I dislike – so it is surprising that Musicteck keeps letting me review things. If you’d like to buy one from them, you can get in here: https://shop.musicteck.com/products/cayin-n7-pure-1-bit-android-based-digital-audio-player. Now, on with Big Bird’s … Continue reading Cayin N7 DAP
I’m Going To Get Hate Mail For This One Pros: Beautiful Build QualityGreen Case Included!Lots of JacksGood PowerHas Tidal Cons: ExpensiveSound tuning can be sharper than I likeDon’t like the UI – not really built for streamingThe button layout can be annoying Overview: Disclaimer: Yeah, I’m going to get hate mail for this review – inevitable any time you write a bad review of a $3,700 product. As always, I just write what I think, and I don’t really care if you don’t agree – write your own review. That said, this is just my opinion on a product I bought with my … Continue reading Astell&Kern A&Ultima SP3000
Great Warm Sound – Awful Case/Software Pros: Great, warm sound with AMP 8Light weightGood screenUsable buttonsBalanced outputSwappable amps Cons: Terrible softwareTerrible stock caseNot as good as the M6U Overview: Up for review today is the iBasso DX240 DAP (https://amzn.to/3ymWk21) with the AMP … Continue reading iBasso DX240 W/ AMP 8 Mk2
One of the best, but at what cost? Pros: Great SoundNice RemoteLots of inputs and outputsCompact-ishSturdy, good looks Cons: PriceNo USB cable included – for why? Overview: Up for review today is the Questyle Current Mode Amplification (CMA) Fifteen (not 15.) This … Continue reading Questyle CMA Fifteen
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