While bunches 'o companies were hopping on the USB DAC bandwagon, Weiss quietly goes their own way, focusing on getting the audio out of your computer via FireWire. The company also sells professional audio equipment.
Abbingdon Music Research out of London revealed their new CD-777 at the show with US distributor Darren Censullo from Avatar Acoustics on hand to explain the details.
Not an audiophile product per se, SE2 Labs ITC One "Integrated Theater Console" takes all the components typical in a high-end audio/video rack, and strips away everything but the circuit boards and transports and puts them all in a single climate-controlled chassis.
Once you choose which components you want, they bolt the circuit boards inside the chassis and link them together.
Robert Baird got the scoop on this one in the February issue of <I>Stereophile</I>. Check his Aural Robert column for details about the Sonic Focus technology included in this iPod dock and its surprising heritage.
We all have different digital needs, and companies like Bel Canto are trying different combinations of features to find customers.
Richard Rives, famous for tuning rooms around the world is now distributing audiophile products. Among those is the new Navison Audio Reference 228 CD Player which sports the latest Philips CD-Pro2M transport and 24 bit Delta Sigma DAC technology.
In addition to Sooloos and Blue Smoke, Qsonix was also demonstrating the latest iteration of their touchscreen music server system. The fully self-contained Q110 package is comprised of the single DAC/HD drive/software box and up to four touchscreens.
This one box contains all eight DACs, two hard drives selected by the customer, and all processing power to run the software and audio.