My final thoughts on AURALiC’s Vega have just gone up on 6Moons. Make no mistake - this is one fine-, fine-sounding DAC.  It gives the listener far more aural satisfaction than DACs swimming in the budget end of the market (say, <$1000).  For a similar cash drop, the Metrum Hex is capable of pulling up alongside.  Both DACs have well thought

Ask any Magnepan loudspeaker owner about amplifier choices and they’ll tell you that you need three things: power, power and more power. This is the premise upon which I hooked my search for budget integrateds to partner withe MMG. Class D is a fast-track to more watts per channel but what about Class A/B? Surely there must be a manufacturer

Throughout the coming weeks I’ll be reviewing three budget amplifiers over at 6Moons. A shoot-out it is not. There’s a twist in the assignment tail: each amplifier is only getting a run with Magnepan’s MMG loudspeaker. If it’s not abundantly clear from these words, allow me to reiterate: the MMG are possibly the biggest bang-for-buck speaker this side of a

Lunar-tic Srajan Ebaen caught me off guard: he’d asked me to pen a couple of paragraphs on the Metrum Hex as second opinion for his 6Moons review. Digging it BIG TIME, the words kept flowing (which is unusual for me and soon the commentary bubble had expanded to 1500 mots justes). You can read them here. Make no mistake –

Here’s another review sent for a lunar module ride across the surface of 6Moons. Months and months in gestation, a PS Audio factory tour cuts back to summary commentary of two years of DACs-to-date, which in turns leads into comparatives with PS Audio’s PerfectWaveDAC (it ‘wins’) and then onto my (99% excellent) user experience with the bespoke UPnP software that

As a follow-up piece to the 6Moons Hoyt Bedford review, I’ve penned some verbiage on how well the Trafomatic Aries SET tangos with the Bedford Babes. In the context of the Hoyt Bedford Type 2, the EL34 Aries was compared to an Exposure 2010s2, a Weston Acoustics Troubadour and a Dayens Ampino. Click here for the 6Moon-age daydream (oh yeah)

The first DAR review to enjoy immediate and permanent migration to the much larger off-shore colony of 6Moons. You can read my 6Moons bio here and the full-fat skinny on the Hoyt Bedford Type 1 here