I first saw the Burson Timekeeper on static display at RMAF 2012′s CanJam.  Six months later and it looks like Burson are getting ready for the official launch of their statement amplifier. I asked the guys at Burson if any internal changes had been made since the Denver sighting. “R&D has made some improvements since then. Let’s say it was

Melbourne’s Burson Audio are about to launch the next generation of their very popular HA-160D. Like its predecessor, The Conductor is a headphone amplifier, DAC and pre-amplifier. Dimensions and casework remain unchanged but inside you’ll find an ESS Sabre32 9018 chip. The USB implementation has seen some love – it’s now an 24/192 asynchronous Tenor TE8802 (drivers for OS X

Three years after their HA-160 headphone amplifier, Burson Audio has announced a new two-in-one head-amp/pre-amp named the Soloist. Holding fast to Burson Audio’s IC-free design mandate, the Soloist is a pure Class-A amplifier free from standard IC op-amp and IC power regulator building blocks. The Soloist has 35% fewer components in its signal path than the HA-160. “This translates into

DAR-reader Philippe G wrote to me with some thoughts on op-amp rolling in the Eastern Electric Minimax DAC.  A combination of his enthusiasm and the Australian angle of Burson means Philippe’s words (and photos) might be of some interest to other readers: “An informal guess: (Eastern Electric’s) Alex Yeung knows that the Minimax’s potential can be expanded by optimising the

You can’t always get what you want. This story begins with bad vibes.  Melbourne’s Burson Audio are a tough bunch to get hold of.  There’s no phone number or street address (on their website) so it’s an email only affair.  This approach does them a disservice.  It ain’t just me and my paranoia talking.  I’d already heard numerous anecdotal reports