The K11 R2R has three digital inputs on its back panel: USB-C, TOSLINK and coaxial. I connected it to a MacBook Pro via USB ...

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The internal DAC – whose circuit is built around an unspecified chip and juiced by a dedicated power supply – can be fed from the rear via coaxial (24bit/192kHz), TOSLINK (24bit/192kHz) and the now ...

The CD80 II is a headphone-focussed CD player with 3.5mm and balanced 4.4mm sockets on the front panel to respectively offer 215mW and 850mW into 32 Ohms. Output impedance on both sockets is less than ...

5. Does the K11 R2R do DSD? Yes — and no. The K11 will accept DSD streams over USB, but according to FiiO’s data flow diagram, all DSD signals are converted to PCM upon entry.

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One solution is to block sounds before they hit our room’s naked surfaces – the walls and the ceiling – with physical ...

A dongle DAC and headphone amplifier with desktop-level performance? That appears to be the proposition of FiiO’s QX13. Measuring 6.4cm x 1.3cm x 3cm and weighing less than 40g, the QX13 takes in ...

I have more to say about the Rotel Michi Q5 (€5999) that we covered last week. Our video on the Q5 has reached almost 60,000 people in its first week online. That’s roughly the same number of people ...