Audiophiles opened their mouths and Topping listened. The new Topping D90LE DAC loses MQA support and is $100 cheaper. When Apos Audio sent me the Topping D90SE for review, I spent a couple weeks ...

Meridian has unveiled a new version of its beloved Explorer DAC – and this time it’s compatible with the company’s new MQA audio format. The UK-manufactured Explorer 2, available now for around £200, ...

The new iFi Audio ZEN DAC V2 offers additional decoding power, improved MQA support, and a lot of power for your headphones or IEMs. iFi Audio have been introducing new products in 2021 at a rather ...

Since ESS Technology debuted the first generation of its Sabre dacs in 2008, these high-performance chips have found their way into an impressive assortment of popular audio products. Now ESS has ...

The death of the headphone jack has left headphone fans in the lurch. There’s no shortage of dongle DACs stepping in to fill the void, but there’s more to great smartphone audio and a simple headphone ...

A headphone DAC and amp are not a requirement to enjoy the sound from your various devices, but sometimes they can help. Many mobile devices have a DAC (digital audio converter) built into their ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Technology journalist specializing in audio, computing and Apple Macs. This article is more than 3 years old. The iFi Zen Air DAC ...

The new Cambridge Audio DACMagic 200M can natively decode MQA files as well as virtually any other type of digital file. It includes Bluetooth and has plenty of inputs and outputs. One of my favorite ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. It's the first DAC of its kind to utilise THX's AAA-78 amplifier technology, which is the highest ...

Looking to improve the sound of your smartphone practically and cheaply? Then what you need is portable DAC – and they don't come much smaller or more affordable than the Ztella. A current Kickstarter ...

Now that pretty much every major streaming music service — except Spotify — offers lossless audio options at CD-quality or better, you may be wondering how you can hear that extra level of sound ...

When it comes to discussions of digital audio, you’ll quickly run into an alphabet soup of acronyms: MP3, AAC, ALAC, FLAC, WAV, DSD, and so on. It’s practically endless. You’d think that with this ...