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

Ready? My interactions with Taiwan’s KingRex UD384 started back in February 2012 with coverage of the UPower battery back. Steady? If you’re interested in the story so far with USB-S/PDIF convertors take a ramble through digital audio transports, which was penned back in March 2012. Go!  KingRex’s UD384 (US$479) is a DAC and USB-S/PDIF convertor in an aluminium shell that easily sits

January 2012.  Christine Wu of the Taiwanese KingRex Tech offered up review units of the UD384 convertor (US$479) as well as its (optional) battery PSU, the KingRex UPower (US$189).  Freeing the USB DAC from its potentially noisy USB bus power feed had me on the review assignment hook. Armchair audiophiles will find themselves immediately muted by this DAC.  At its

Need to convert USB digital audio to either S/PDIF or I2S?  KingRex joins the ever-growing throng of digital interfaces from M2Tech, Audio-gd, Firestone and TeraDak with its UC192 converter. The KingRex UC192 is a high-quality computer audio transport interface for those wishing to stream high-resolution files to an existing DAC. The UC192 can transfer from PC or Mac at 16bit/44.1KHz

The jury is still out on organic food. Scientists admit that it contains a greater number of antioxidants relative to non-organic food – as well as higher possibly levels of iron and zinc found in organically farmed milk. But no scientific study has yet proven how organic are better for you. Depending on who you believe, my previous sentence is