Kevin Gilmore CFA3 Headphone Amp Measurements
Sporting immense power and excellent objective performance in a purist-friendly topology, the CFA3 is a very impressive amplifier indeed.
Sporting immense power and excellent objective performance in a purist-friendly topology, the CFA3 is a very impressive amplifier indeed.
The pi2design mercury is a compact, high performance network audio streamer and server, with a price that makes other products hard to justify
The Chord Mojo 2 is an excellent portable DAC and headphone amp with some handy features on top. If you’re looking for a high quality portable option, it’d be hard to find something definitively better than this
The Gustard X26 Pro is an excellent, fully balanced DAC with clear attention to detail and no corners cut in its design. And the objective performance clearly reflects this
The Gustard U18 is an I2S DDC with some impressive design aspects. Unfortunately it’s not quite as impressive with real world performance.
The benchmark DAC3B offers some mixed objective results, with some areas going beyond any other manufacturer and some falling behind
The Benchmark DAC3 boasts some impressive design elements and performance, but the resulting sound leaves something to be desired
The GustaX18 is currently the lowest THD+N / highest SINAD of any DAC I’ve tested. And backs it up with excellent performance in just about all other areas too!
The Chord MScaler is a truly exceptional hardware upsampler which will no doubt bring an improvement to nearly any audio chain.
Technical measurements and analysis of the Chord DAVE DAC. This is a high end DAC with some great and not so great aspects