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We sadly don't have a valve amplifier in for testing, but we do have Rotel's high-end CD player that's built like a tank, a ...

Many high-end CD players have a DAC. But not many high-end DACs have a CD player. That makes the Canor Gaia C2 very unusual. It's basically a premium digital-to-analogue convertor with tube output, ...

Shanling will be demonstrating two disc players, DAC/Headphone Amp, DAC/Streamer, and HW-600 open-back headphones at High END. The Shanling SM1.3 Music Streamer (network streamer) is powered by a ...

In this digital age of music streaming, Spotify and Apple's iTunes dominate the industry. However, that does not mean that CDs are out of place right now-just that only a few of them are listening to ...