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INTRODUCTION<br />
PASSION FOR SOUND<br />
Welcome<br />
www.hifichoice.co.uk Issue No. 410 <strong>May</strong> 2016<br />
Picture credit: Fabienne Pennewaert<br />
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Tannoy<br />
Mercury 7.2<br />
100<br />
Kel Assouf<br />
Tikounen<br />
107<br />
Clearaudio<br />
Performer<br />
If this month’s cover star is<br />
anything to go by, hi-res audio is<br />
gaining traction among serious<br />
audio fans. Audiolab’s hotly<br />
anticipated M-DAC+ sits alongside<br />
its original M-DAC model – one of<br />
our favourite digital-to-analogueconverters<br />
since its launch in 2011<br />
– and adds 32-bit/384kHz PCM<br />
format support as well as compatibility with DSD64,<br />
128 and 256 music files. It’s undeniably one of the best<br />
specified digital-to-analogue-converters around at the<br />
price, but how many of us actually own any DSD<br />
content? There seems to be a dearth of DSD files of any<br />
form around and I suspect that most of us will continue<br />
to play just a few hi-res files via USB and a lot more<br />
CD-quality material for a good while yet. The launch is<br />
undoubtedly seen as an encouraging sign that greater<br />
resolution music files are on the way, but it will remain<br />
futureproof for a good time to come. Read our<br />
four-page In-depth review starting on page 16.<br />
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