As an appetizer to this stand off, I suggest you first devour two slices of dedicated Wyred4Sound mINT review commentary from 6Moons (where it summarily dismisses the Bel Canto C5i) and TONEAudio (where TWO writers dig and find gold). Also check out Sam Tellig’s words on the Peachtree Nova125 at Stereophile.  My coverage isn’t a straight up review of Wyred4Sound’s minT.  Instead,

I get a lot of ‘Dear John’ emails. Readers want to know more, more, MORE about what I uncover during review playtime.  Time then to turn it on its head…. Dear John I’ve just bought a Metrum Octave DAC. I’m still very much a beginner at all of this digital audio stuff. Should I connect the Metrum to my Mac

I saw Wyred4Sound’s forthcoming portable DAC/head-amp at this year’s RMAF – now it has a tentative street date of December 2012. The µDAC-HD shares the same casework as the original µDAC, drops optical and coaxial inputs and picks-up a quarter inch headphone socket. Data feeds of up to 24/192 and Linux compatibility are handled by the (USB Audio Class 2.0)

California’s Wyred4Sound last week announced two forthcoming products. Kinda. Sorta. On the back of the m-INT integrated amplifier’s postive reception, a similar half-width ‘desktop’ chassis – with 0.75 inch thick aluminium face plate and top-cover venting – has been again deployed for separate pre- and power units. The m-AMP is a mono-block that boasts 220 Class D watts per channel

Wyred4Sound have a host of new products set to drop in early December. First up, the M-int integrated (US$1499) with onboard ESS DAC. I love the neatness of these all-in-one boxes. This will give the Bel Canto C5i and the Peachtree iNova some serious competition. Then there’s a Linux-based music server (US$1999) with I2S out (so that it can directly

In the world of hifi, the seven degrees of separation could easily be hacked down to four…perhaps even three. Rick Cullen of Cullen Circuits used to be the primary builder for PS Audio. EJ Sarmento – who worked at Cullen Circuits with Rick – formed Wyred 4 Sound and made an immediate splash with his Ice-powered amplifiers. Operating out of