Notes from the listening rooms

The M2Tec HiFace DAC is a little USB stick, is bright orange, sells for just €220, and yet is capable of handling the highest of hi-res music files you can buy. This I had to try…The booming DAC market shows no sign of slowing: just as CD player ...

Daft Punk – Random Access Memories reviewDaft Punk makes the sun come out. I know this to be true. A trip to Sony Music yesterday for a listen to the new Daft Punk album, Random Access Memories (possibly the most hotly anticipated album ...

Getting to grips with Trends Audio's tiny BA-10 biamplification system      It was a fairly odd experience – carrying a complete biamplification system out of the office to the car under one arm, especially when that system ...

Sometimes good things turn bad, and sometimes adversity brings opportunities: both were involved in how I came to be using Naim's flagship streamer, the £6250 NDS, in my system at home.It started when we had an updating session in the office, ...

Over the past few weeks, it's been hard to avoid the new Linn Kiko system – it's been all over the various social media channels, Twittering and Facebooking like mad with promotions such as 'Name your favourite ten seconds of music'. What's more, ...

The Audyssey Lower East Side Media speakers may be tiny, but they can kick up a storm...  Just occasionally products slip through the WHFSV review net: we only have so many pages each month, and the competition for space can get ...

I missed out on hearing the Neat Iota speakers when they were launched at the Manchester Show last Autumn, but the buzz from those who were there was such that I put in a request for a review pair unheard.And having finally got my hands on a pair ...

 Judging from the whathifi.com Forums and elsewhere, there's a lot of confusion about the hows and whats of music streaming. Do you need a NAS drive? Will Product X connect to Player Y? How do you set the whole thing up?You can see why ...

Just bought myself a new NAS system, to take over from the WD MyBook World that's been doing a great job in my system since I first started storing and streaming music.A friend put me onto the giveaway prices currently available on D-Link 'empty ...

It's not often that you get offered the chance to try something that looks set to alter once and for all the way your streaming music system performs.  And it's even rarer when the special something can be bought for just ...