Digital Audio Review has just stumbled into its third year of operation. It’s always a tough time of year this, getting over the post-US trip fallout (swindled by Dollar Car Rental…again) and following up on conversations with exhibitors at RMAF – still the most popular dedicated hi-fi show in the USA. T.H.E. Newport Beach Show might steal RMAF’s crown in

I shall look back on this week as the time of the great file migration: the conversion of 4000+ albums from FLAC into Apple Lossless. I’m moving to an iTunes-fronted playback system. Bye-bye Squeezeboxen.  It’s a big decision, one that wasn’t taken lightly.  See - I’ve been a Squeezebox user since 2004.  Back then it was developed by Sean Adams and

Audirvana development keeps on keeping on.  It’s definitely one of the better audiophile-quality music players for OS X but the new beta (“Plus”) version pulls an even bigger rabbit from the hat – iTunes integration.  Wow. “Audirvana Plus can now, in addition to its independent playlist mode, be fully controlled by iTunes. In this mode, Audirvana Plus works transparently in the

At time of writing, the ideal feature shopping list for a new USB DAC or USB-S/PDIF converter might look something like this: Asynchronous USB transfer TWO independent clocks (one for the 44.1/88.2/176.4 sample rate family, one for the 48/96/192 sample rate family) Galvanically isolated USB Integer mode capable Integer mode – it’s the next hot topic of digital audio. In