So, pretty much the idea for this small article is to introduce how I came in touch with Museatex. This is the first company Ed Meitner worked with, and is currently maintained by John Wright, who performs upgrades on the products they used to make in the 90’s. A third figure was part of Museatex,… » Read the full article

Here I present you with the Stello U3 digital converter. In the past I’ve bought and reviewed Eximus DP-1, making this a second acquaintance with April Music products. Eximus left a positive impression, thanks to its precise sense of imaging, involving soundstage, and smooth, sweet tone. Boundary conditions Lately, I have been tuning a setup… » Read the full article

The HM-602 is a portable digital audio player made by HifiMan Chinese producer. The player uses a Philips TDA1543 NOS DAC chip, which is the easiest multibit chip to implement, within those in TDA line (TDA1541, TDA1543, TDA1547…). The HM-602 feels like a vintage DAP coming from the years of Rio Karma, but is actually… » Read the full article

The Yulong D18 DAC is my second experience with the brand. I still own a DAH-1 dac/headamp which I had reviewed a few years ago. The DAH-1 main strength was its DAC section, which used Analog Devices dac and SRC chip set, while its headphone amp portion was less convincing. The DAH-1 dac section was… » Read the full article

Today I look at my third “modern” Yulong DAC, their latest offering, the D200. Taking the place of D100mk2, this is aimed at a lower price pointthan DA8 I looked at previously. Based on the ESS Sabre chipset family, D200 uses a slightly lower end 9016 chip, compared to 9018 used by the DA8. Similarly… » Read the full article

Introduction This is my take on the Mytek 192 DSD-DAC Preamp. I have been listening to it for weeks and thoroughly comparing with other devices, with a particular attention to the Yulong DA8, both because I have quite a few emails as to how the two compared, and also because of my inherent curiosity, given… » Read the full article

The Ciunas USB/SPDIF converter is one of the two products, built by JKenny, belonging to the Ciunas line. While the Ciunas DAC, which I reviewed a while ago, is a stand alone USB DAC, the USB/SPDIF converter is aimed to take the usb signal from a computer, and feed it to DAC’s accepting SPDIF protocol,… » Read the full article