Digital

There are 10 types of people in this world, lets hope your the one that gets that joke. Digital is the default setting for our music collections these days, but our ears aren't digital. There's a range of products out there to help make the 1's and 0's into sweet, smooth, silky sound. From smart speakers to DACs to the humble CD player, theres plenty of sources for your music out there.

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  • Aurender A30 Flagship Streamer

    The A30 is Aurender's flagship best of the best audio streamer, server, CD ripper and DAC. A jack of all trades and master of them ALL. This is the ultimate in what digital front end can do. Every inch of it is thought out and executed to perfection.

    This unit is going to sit in our reference system with the Sonus Faber Aida 2. 

    Read more about the A30 here at HiFinews review

    And another glowing review from Audiophile style here

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  • McIntosh 12000 series ... 75 years of integrity ...

    There is occasionally in this saturated market place a product that elicits a raw primeval desire to own and nurture.

    Surround sound amplifiers come and go with their intemperate changes of HDMI protocols and surround formats.

    The sheer conservatism of many excellent UK stereo products never penetrates the aesthetic sensibilities of many a potential music lover.

    And then there is this McIntosh reference kit. Like a turbocharged Harley Davidson gate crashing Moto GP it is impossible to ignore, absolutely functional but outrageous design and audio quality.

    An immediate object of desire after encounter and audition.

    Come and try them

    . McIintosh MA12000 Amplifier official site 

    McIntosh MCD12000 Cd Player official site 

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  • Audio Research Reference CD9SE

    Audio Research introduced its first Reference series CD player in 2005 with the Reference CD7, then evolving into the Reference CD8. Both players received critical acclaim for their accuracy and naturalness. People still want to play their CDs, but they also want to add other digital sources such as computer audio and streaming to their music systems, so we created the Reference CD9SE CD Player/DAC. It combines the best of both, a super high-resolution compact disc player with a super high-resolution digital-to-analog converter that is stunning in its musicality.

    What Hi Fi? love it ...

    https://www.whathifi.com/reviews/audio-research-reference-cd9-se

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    $27,995.00

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  • Chord Electronics DAVE

    We saw this first at the Munich Hi Fi Show last May and have been greatly anticapating it's arrival. Chord have consistently broken new ground with their DAC technology and this is the top of the class in the world today. Amongst it's peers ithis is the smart and healthy sixth former who is going to get into Oxbridge without even revising, and who hopefully goes on and finds a cure for cancer. We expect great things of you DAVE. 

    Instead of traditional off-the-shelf solutions, Chord use an FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) in its high-end DACS and their own software to do all the number crunching. And DAVE is no different. This newest arrival also features a high-grade filter with enhanced processing powers and full high-res audio support, including DSD and DXD files up to 768kHz. Outputs include XLR and standard RCA connectors, plus an advanced headphone output. Inputs include USB Type-B, two optical and four coaxial digital sockets.

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  • Audio Research DAC 9

    The DAC9 digital-to-analog converter decodes most current formats with state-of-the-art vacuum tube technology. Five digital connections - USB, RCA, BNC, AES/EBU, and Toslink - provide connectivity to all of your digital sources. Quad DAC architecture provides a balanced digital signal, wide dynamic range, and decoding resolutions from red book CD up to 384 kHz and native DSD sampling rates. A pair of 6H30 vacuum tubes are the heart of the analog circuit. Both balanced and single-ended connectors are provided for output connectivity. Native-rate upsampling and selectable digital filters allow customization of the digital signal.

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    $18,995.00

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  • Audio Research Reference CD6SE.... CD Player - Dac

    Sonically, the CD6SE is a stunner, uncovering new musical detail in every corner of your recordings and providing startling dynamics, both micro and macro. The top end is extended, airy and pure, while bass definition and impact are precise and powerful. The recording venues are lifelike, broad and expansive or close-up and intimate, depending on what was captured by the recording engineer. Like great analog, listening to music through the CD6SE draws you into the performance, not just the notes, with resolution and transparency that are in service of the music. Experience your music in High Definition

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    $18,495.00

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  • Chord Blu Mk2 CD Transport ... worlds best CD and digital transport?

    Available for audition in-store, with the Chord DAVE. The Blu MkII is a compact, FPGA-based upsampling CD transport which offers the world’s most advanced filter technology. Used with DAVE, the combination delivers class-leading CD sound quality and technical performance. At the heart of the Blu MkII lies an enormously powerful Xilinx FPGA. Rob Watts’ (Chord’s Digital Design Consultant) has used this to create his exclusive WTA M-Scaler technology, which incorporates the most advanced filter of its kind in the world. The Xilinx FPGA has also enabled a key breakthrough in tap-length (the technical indicator of how complex the interpolation filter is) taking Blu MkII to an unprecedented 1,015,808 taps. Learn More
    $17,000.00

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  • Auralic Leo GX.1 Reference Master Clock (inc Premium Cable)

    LEO GX.1 is a breakthrough in digital audio system clocking — the first master clock ever
    that can feed a DAC directly with a working signal so precise we had to use new
    benchmarks to measure its performance. Wider staging, pinpoint locational accuracy, and
    an expanded dynamic range are just some of the benefits you’ll hear when you implement
    LEO GX.1’s one-of-a-kind approach to clocking that literally bypasses the traditional
    limitations of internal DAC clocks.

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    $15,995.00

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  • Rega Isis

    Rega, usually so famous for their excellent turn tables, have launched their new reference class CD player and it is a thing of beauty. Moving away from a naming convention of heavenly bodies (and hence Roman deities) we have something distinctly more Egyptian in the Isis. Learn More
  • Aurender A15

    Aureder A15 is a do-it-all box that is transparent and revealing in its sound. If you value accuracy and what a streamer with all the bells and whistles then this is the unit for you.

    It has a DAC on board and can function as a preamplifier as well. But if you have an integrated amplifier or a dedicated preamplifier you can dismantle the preamplifier function by selecting direct out.

    This unit has 2 bays available for inserting your own hard drives into it. Aurender leaves the choice of hard drive up to you which I like actually! For some people 4TB seems like a huge amount, for others, the'll want it pimped out to 16TB. 

    Like any other Aurender, the A15 uses internal caching. This means when any track is selected it will be downloaded onto the internal SSD before it's played. Once it's in that temporary storage on the unit, you don't have to worry about buffering that track will play seamlessly. This system also makes things sound better creating more isolation.

    What we also love about Aurender units and the A15 is no exception, is the internal tech support. If something's not working quite right or if you just have a question simply go to the link in the app and someone will sort it out for you,

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  • Naim NSC 222 New Classic series streaming preamplifier

    This is a unit that is ultimately a high-end Hi-Fi component but it's ease of use and multitude of functions put it into the upmarket lifestyle realm as well. 'Lifestyle' for me has become a bit of a cringeworthy term that has too often become associated with some compromise in audio quality for the sake of a better end user experience. To be honest though, we should be aiming for both and they are not mutually exclusive!

    Naim embody that ease of use combined with incredible sound. Their streaming app works every time, they have on board DACs to simplify connections and the units are sleek, beautifully finished yet understated and classy. 

    And this combination takes things to the next level. Where the Uniti Nova lets you down on separation and power to drive a difficult set of speakers, this combination proffers that in spades. 

    We tried a couple of different sets of speakers with these three units and like them most with the Sonus Faber Guarneri Homage...but come in and try some combinations for yourself.

    Naim products bought from us, a genuine approved Naim dealer, include the full 2 year warranty.

     "Audiophilia" on the NSC222

     "What Hi Fi?" on the NSC222

     "Secrets of Home Theatre and High Fidelity" on the NSC222 as a system with 250 power and 300 power supply

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  • PS Audio PerfectWave SACD Transport

    This is the recently released version of PS Audio's CD Transport. And what sets this unit apart from anything that PS Audio has done before and also anything that's been done before by any other HiFi company, is their galvanically isolated output stage. That means that the data is being transfered from the input stage to the output stage via a type of very focused short wave radio frequencies. Any vestiges of interference that inevitably occur when these stages are hardwired, are completely eliminated.

    Input and output stages have their very own board and power supply to keep them completely separated as well. FPGAs (Field-Programable Gate Array; if you'd like to learn more about these very handy devices see Paul McGowan's video here) is utilised to ensure clocking and data buffering are spot on. 

    The best way to use this unit and unleash its full potential is to use the I2S output or the HDMI out put to a DAC (like the PS Audio DirectStream) that can handle it. In this respect you can hear a complete Raw DSD file...and that truly is another experience. A DSD file is what makes an SACD an SACD. Instead of sampling at a determined fast rate (bit rate) the sine curve of the musical file, a DSD file samples the whole sine curve. These raw files are bigger and have to be compresesd to even push it out of a transport. But not with this unit and the I2S...full blown raw DSD files streaming into your speakers. Heaven.

    Of course you can still use this unit without the I2S and it's still devastatingly good. A pair of BNC connectors will double a normal DSD output to make it DSD128 and this connection is particularly scintillating with a Chord Dave...

    Read theaudiobeatnik review of the unit here (he uses the I2S connection with a non PS Audio Dac with superb results)

    The PS Audio website has some extra reading on this unique product too

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  • Auralic Sirius G2.1 Upsampling Processor

    SIRIUS G2.1 operates on an open standard, upgrading both the processing power and the original performance envelope of their Digital-to-Analog Converters (DACs).

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    $11,495.00

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  • Auralic Vega G2.1 Streaming Dac

    Every aspect of the VEGA G2.1’s engineering has been designed to push the boundaries of
    sonic performance, reshaping data into vibrant musical performance. From the addition of
    integrated streaming to its unique casework, the VEGA G2.1 is transforming the idea of
    what a DAC can be.

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    $11,495.00

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  • Aurender ACS10

    Aurender has just recently joined our ever expanding group of digital streamers. Aurender has quickly established themselves as one of the very best digital front end offerings in the world. Found in 2011 by Harry Lee, Aurender is made in South Korea and has at its core a team of people passionate about producing the very best in streaming.

    The ACS10 is a streamer, CD ripper, hard drive storage & caching server. A veritable do-it-all unit for your digital front end. When your source material is dealt with from start to finish in an audio sensitive manner avoiding laptops and computers that easily corrupt and infect your source with noise, the music is simply better.

    See the official Aurender website here

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  • PS Audio DirectStream Mk2 trade-in offer (with DirectStream Mk1)

    The long awaited PS Audio DirectStream DAC Mk2 is here now and it is particularly brilliant. Initial reports from our early adopters put it up there with the best in the world, Following soon after the release of the DirectStream DAC Mk2 will be the release of its matching streamer, the PS Audio AirLens (more details below).

    We are offering a Guaranteed Trade In Program for owners of the original DirectStream DAC and will be offering professionally refurbished original DirectStream DAC Mk1 for $4,995 RRP, including new top plates, new packaging and 12 months warranty.

    DirectStream DAC Mk2

    RRP $13,995

    RRP $10,995 with trade in of original DirectStream DAC*

    RRP $10,695 with trade in of original DirectStream DAC with Bridge 2*

    *Traded in DirectStream DACs will need to be in good condition with a working remote (no marks on casework) and all functions must work properly. Exceptions will be made for scratched top plates, missing manuals. 

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    Regular Price: $13,995.00

    Special Price $10,995.00


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  • Marantz SA-10S1, Flagship Super Audio CD player

    CD is not dead ... it's merely resting a little. In my humble opinion you haven't heard how good digital music can be unless you have heard a Cd or SACD through a really good player like this ...

    Considered by many long term reviewers as the standard in SA CD and CD reproduction. The depth of musicality, extraordinary; The imaging, second to none.

    The amount of times hardened audiophiles have said to me with this CD player, 'I haven't heard that in that track before', countless. We've put this CD player into a whole range of different types of systems. We find it very versatile as to what it can be 'matched' with and that's also a testament to it simply being a REALLY good CD player.

     "Hi Fi News" on the SA10S1 

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  • McIntosh MCD350 SACD and CD Player

    The super cool CD player to match the rest of the McIntosh gear. This unit is an SACD player as well. 

    This is a solid unit where detail in the finish is matched by the detail of the sound. 

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  • Auralic Altair G2.1 Streaming DAC preamplifier

    The Altair G2.1 is the unit in Auralic's range that does it all. A Preamplifier, DAC and Streamer with options to put in a 2TB hard drive and even a CD ripper. 

    The Preamplifier is also a full blown analogue preamplifier. Not only does it have the analogue line and Moving Magnet phono inputs, it also doesn't simply convert these into digital signals within the chassis. Rather they are kept completely separate from the digital circuitry. Also the volume control is an analogue design based on resistive ladder construction. A less noisy, cleaner choice than other designs out there. Such all-in-one units have tended to use cheaper less fullfilling preamplifier modules that I normally recommend customers to bypass. That's not the case here.

    Also a superior power supply and thick copper shielded chassis with isolating feet mean that noise and vibrations are kept to an absolute minimum. Couple that with a pair of super accurate clocks reducing jitter and this is a unit that stands above others in its category.

    Clean, effortless sound and a unit that ticks all the boxes.

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  • Naim Uniti Star

    A killer all-in-one unit including amplifier, streamer and CD player. And this isn't just a thrown together assembly of various componentry. Each of its parts are in their own right, exceptional value and performance.

    Naim products bought from us, a genuine approved Naim dealer, include the full 2 year warranty. 

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    $8,600.00

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