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Desktop Equipment is mainly made to be used at home or at your main desk, and it is not generally intended to be portable. This includes Speakers, DACs, AMPs, even Headphones, and desktop equipment is generally larger and / or needs access to a power outlet to work. HIFI products are generally considered desktop equipment, although you can find some which can be used portably.
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Views 4,573 KeyChron Q6 HE is a $249 USD 100% Mechanical Keyboard with a wireless design, Hall Effect Gateron Double-rail Magnetic Switches, and dynamic rapid triggering, adjustable actuation points. Today we will review the KeyChron Q6 HE and compare it to my favorite and daily keyboard, Keychron Q6 MAX (219 …
Views 3,915 FiiO DM13 is a 150 USD Portable CD Player / CD Ripper with a Dual CS43198 DAC, 660mW x2 power output, and a Desktop Mode that allows you to use it without draining the internal battery. Even Bluetooth is included with aptX HD support, so today we will …
Views 2,603 Shanling EH2 is a $369 USD desktop DAC / Headphone Amplifier with an In-House Developed 24-Bit R2R DAC, Extra Powerful Amplifier with a 4.3W driving power for a 32 OHM impedance, and with an external DC12V Power Supply. Today we take a look at the EH2, and compare …
Views 3,478 ddHiFi BC44XLR is a 139 USD interconnect cable, serving a simple, but essential purpose for music lovers, connecting a DAP or digital audio player to an external amplifier, and today we will see just how do the two cables sound and if they are fit to be part …
Views 5,676 HiFiMAN Susvara Unveiled is the $8000 USD flagship pair of headphones that are the culmination of Dr. Fang Bian’s research in the planar magnetic driver and how to optimize the acoustic properties of a flagship pair of headphones. Today we will review the HIFIMAN Susvara Unveiled and also …
Views 6,940 Acoustic Revive USB-2.0PL TripleC USB Cable is a $840 USD per meter USB Cable for audio systems, with the central conductor made of a Triple-C Copper at the core. Today we will review the new Acoustic Revive USB-2.0PL Triple-C USB Cable and see how it works for our …
Views 4,804 Aune S17 PRO Evo is a $799 USD Headphone Amplifier that is a direct update from the original Aune S17 PRO that we have reviewed in the past. The new Evo version promises to fix the overheating issues that people have been having with S17 Pro, especially in …
Views 9,415 FiiO TT13 is a $229 USD Fully Automatic Vinyl Turntable Player with a Built-In Powerful Phono Preamp, all aluminum alloy panel, aptX, aptX LL and aptX hi-Res Bluetooth Transmitter, DC / AC Dual Power Supply Design, and with a Fully Automatic Tonearm that is the star of today’s …
Views 10,798 Acoustic Revive RUT-1K is a $290 USD USB Terminator or USB filter designed to be plugged in the USB hub of your computer and lower or reduce the background noise and improve the sonic performance of your system. The design allows it to be used with multiple pieces …
Views 16,166 Rose Technics RT-5000 is a $699 USD Desktop DAC and Headphone Amplifier by ROSESELSA with a wooden face, golden accents, High-End Dual ESS9038PRO DACs inside, and 10 Texas Instruments Amplifier Chips inside. Today we will review the RT5000 and compare it with other similarly priced DAC/AMPs, including Burson …
Views 10,607 ddHiFi BC30XLR is a 129 USD interconnect cable and ddHiFi BC44XLR is a 139 USD interconnect cable, both serving a simple, but essential purpose for music lovers, connecting a DAP or digital audio player to an external amplifier, or connect a balanced DAC with XLR outputs to an …
Views 32,583 Shanling EH1 is a $219 USD Entry-Level DAC / Headphone AMP designed for desktop usage, with a Cirrus Logic CS43198 DAC at the heart, and up to 1015mW at 32 OHMs of driving power, and with a 4.4mm headphone output too. Today we will review the EH1 and …
Views 25,487 Ricable Invictus XLR is a $862 USD per pair set of high-end flagship cables with XLR connectors, designed for the best of systems out there, part of the invictus series, and with the code 12786 on the Ricable website. Today we will review the absolute prestige of the …
Views 22,583 The Audience Forte F5 is a $649 USD power cable, and in my pondering for what does actually influence the sound of a system, I saw many times how audiophiles with high-end stereo systems swear by power chords, so I decided to give it a go. While cables …
Views 37,208 HIFIMAN Susvara is the $6000 USD flagship, currently considered the best planar magnetic headphone created by most users, and it has every single one of HIFIMAN’s engineering marvels under the hood. Today we will review the Susvara and see how it pairs, how it matches with certain sources, …
Views 20,877 ddHiFi AS100 is a $43 USD IEM and Electronics storage solution that is designed to feel and look like a high-end ashtray, offering a central pole for keeping IEMS free of tangling, but also offering enough space for microSD cards, eartips and other miscellaneous items that typically clutter …
Views 28,750 Fosi Audio ZA3 is a $175 USD Balanced Stereo Power Amplifier based on the TPA3255 Chip, designed to run either in stereo mode, and act as an integrated amplifier for your stereo setup, or be used in Mono mode, with two ZA3 working together to power up your …
Views 24,972 SE Electronics RF Space is a $229 USD acoustic isolator for microphones, designed for recording studios, and places that don’t have a perfect acoustic treatment, but where you’d want to record without echo and with a lower distortion than the room would allow. Today we will review the …
Views 21,723 Ricable Invictus Speaker Reference MKII is a $1738 USD high-end cable for high-end flagship speaker systems, and it is the absolute prestige, the best cable Ricable currently has in store for music lovers. Today we will review the RS4 MKII, the 4 meter version of the High-End Shielded …
Views 16,228 Shanling EC Smart is a $149 USD CD Player design to spin compact discs vertically in the air, with a Cirrus /Logic CS43131 DAC at the heart, Line-Out, Headphone output, Bluetooth connection, and with a metallic construction, being likely the most advanced entry-level CD player to exist out …
Views 22,796 Ricable Invictus Signal Reference RT1 is a $689 USD / 689 Euro per pair of RCA cables with a directionality, Noise Reduction, and they are the absolute prestige of Ricable’s current cable offering for RCA interconnects. Today we will review the RT1 Interconnect RCA from the Invictus Series, …
Views 33,617 FiiO BTR17 is a $199 USD portable Bluetooth DAC, Headphone Amplifier that can be used as a desktop DAC/AMP, wired and wireless, and which has both a single ended and a balanced headphone output. With a flagship Dual DAC ES9096Q and a maximum driving power of 650mW x2 …
Views 30,907 Fosi Audio MC351 is a $202 USD (for the variant we’re testing with the 32V Power Supply) DAC, Integrated Headphone Amplifier, with a VU Meter, Bluetooth Receiver, and it has a 2.1 Channels configuration, including both speaker outputs and an output for both a different pair of active …
Views 36,409 Fosi Audio ZD3 is a $219 USD desktop DAC with a high performance ES9039Q2M DAC at the heart, XLR output, Trigger input and output, and which also allows Tube Rolling. Toda we will study the sound and design of the ZD3, how it works in multiple sonic systems, …
Views 29,185 SMSL PA40 is a $139 USD Speaker Power Amplifier with an integrated PRE function, with a Low Distortion, Low Noise and Low power consumption as the core advantages for this ultra entry-level design. Today we will explore the PA40, how it actually sounds like and if it is …
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