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go to: Contents | On The Horizon | Feature | Disc Players | DACs | Music Servers & Accessories | Integrated Amps with USB DACs | Music Download Reviews | Buyer's Guide GUIDE to STEREO • MUSIC DIGITAL SOURCE COMPONENTS publisher. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jim Hannon editor-in-chief ........... Robert Harley executive editor ......... Jonathan Valin buyer's guide editor ..... Chris Martens acquisitions manager and associate editor ..... Neil Gader music editor ............ Mark Lehman creative director ........ Torquil Dewar art director ............. Shelley Lai senior writers ........... Anthony H. Cordesmann Wayne Garcia Dick Olsher Steven Stone Alan Taffel Andrew Quint reviewers & contributing writers ..... Vade Forrester Jacob Heilbrunn Karl Schuster To sign up for Buyer’s Guides alerts, click here nextscreen, LLC chairman and ceo ....... Tom Martin vp/group publisher ...... Jim Hannon advertising reps ........ Cheryl Smith (512) 891-7775 Scott Constantine (609) 275-3534 Marvin Lewis MTM Sales (718) 225-8803 Address letters to the Editor: The Absolute Sound, 8868 Research Blvd., Austin, TX 78758 or rharley@nextscreen.com ©2013 NextScreen, LLC 4 Digital Source Components www.theabsolutesound.com previous page NEXT page
go to: Contents | On The Horizon | Feature | Disc Players | DACs | Music Servers & Accessories | Integrated Amps with USB DACs | Music Download Reviews | Buyer's Guide FROM THE Editor Welcome to our latest Buyer’s Guide, this one covering digital audio source components. The Guide includes full reviews of: • 19 standalone DACs, • 3 combination disc player/DACs, • 5 combination integrated amplifier/DACs, and • 10 Music Servers and related digital audio accessories. We also bring you our editorial team’s Buyer’s Guide recommendations for digital source components, plus reviews of high-resolution digital music downloads. Finally, we include an illustrated report showing 26 of today’s most innovative new digital audio products as seen at the recent Rocky Mountain Audio Fest 2013. We are experiencing a period of almost unprecedented growth and innovation in digital audio and as a result music lovers can now access and enjoy their favorite music in ways that might have seemed like science fiction only a few years ago. Just stop for a moment and think about the magnitude of the changes unfolding all around us. The Music: We once bought our digital music primarily in the form of MP3 files or Compact Discs. But those days have given way to a modern era where anyone with a passion for sound quality can readily access extremely high-resolution digital audio files from a growing number of sources. CDresolution files, once considered a sonic “Holy Grail” of sorts, are now just the starting points from which to explore even higher-quality file formats promising far greater resolution and sonic finesse. Music Delivery and Storage Systems: Once we thought either in terms of acquiring music content either in the form of optical discs or of downloaded files stored on our computers, but now our range of options has grown. Entire music libraries can, for example, live on portable, high-capacity USB drives or memory sticks, or they could reside on NAS (network attached storage) devices, elsewhere on network or in the cloud. Further, music delivery models are evolving, so that rather that buying copies of content to own some listeners are instead subscribing to high-res music services that charge monthly fees for access to high-res material on demand (why own when you can stream). Digital Audio Technology: Digital audio playback technologies never stand still for long, so that over time we see equipment offering improved DACs, more powerful upsampling options, hyper-precise digital clocks, expanding network and storage connectivity options, the ability to handle ever higher resolution music files, and better analog output sections. In short, digital audio source components sound great now and continue to get even better. We hope this Guide helps you better navigate the brave new world of modern digital audio source components as you pursue The Absolute Sound. Chris Martens Click here to turn the page. 5 Digital Source Components www.theabsolutesound.com previous page NEXT page
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