We want more dac reviews and headphone amplifier reviews!
Dear What Hi-fi,
With more and more people switching to digital music and head-fi systems. Wouldn't it be nice to review more dacs and headphone amplifiers? I was searching for headphone amp reviews on what hi-fi and the amount of reviews are fairly small. The little dot amps for example have made fairly big headlines in forums all over the internet, but no review here. I for one would love to read about your professional opinions and not have to search frantically all over the internet to find a trust worthy review on a forum.
Shafek has a point if there are enough products like the Beresford Caimen or a combined Dac headphone amp comparison.
and media players too!
Andrew Everard:We have been reviewing DACs for as long as any magazine, but the fact is they remain a relatively specialist interest sector these days, and there's a lot of pressure on the space available in the magazine. And I'm not too sure that '10 DACs tested in our Supertest' is going to sell as many copies as a major test of 3D TVs.
Well I don't mean a 10 dac supertest of course. I do understand that space is limited, but it would be nice to increase the amount of dacs and headphone amps reviewed only if by lets say 1 new dac every two months or so....you could also shorten the review and give it a quarter of a page if you feel that its not something that the majority is interested in. I just feel that theres a healthy head-fi community that is not being catered to. Oh Andrew, I would buy a WHF every month even if there's a cow supertest. I'm sure most forum members will. I live in Bangladesh for half of the year and spend the other half in England. You have no idea what I do to get a copy there!
Maybe it is more something to start a thread on than have included in the reviews, but it seems that lots of people are interested in a comparisons of DACs vs CDPs. I notice a lot of people who are contemplating either going to computer, etc. sources want to know whether xxx DAC will sound as good as my xxx CDP, and a number of people are also starting to look at getting an offboard DAC rather than upgrading their CDP so want to know, e.g. will the rDac sound better than my Arcam CD17? Is it as good as the CD37?
Well be assured we'll continue to review DACs as and when models of interest become available. Oh, and the same applies to headphone amplifiers.
Yay result! who wants to read about TV's in a HiFi mag! anyone know what 3D TV is?
Though of course it was 10 years ago that we added the 'and Vision' to our name 
Blackdawn:anyone know what 3D TV is?
Um...quite a few folk do, i think you'll find.
What 3D tv is ? A complete white elephant, a waste of time and effort by all concerned.
my vote is for more dacs - and anything audio with digital inputs.
Nobody give a #($*# about TVs. OMG, kill the TV section. I've been reading WHF for years and I've never read a single TV review. I adore WHF, but the TV reviews are soooooooooooooo boring. Snore fest. Rip it out. Is there really a difference? I mean, who cares???? And I'm holding back here...
jaxwired:Nobody give a #($*# about TVs. OMG, kill the TV section. I've been reading WHF for years and I've never read a single TV review. I adore WHF, but the TV reviews are soooooooooooooo boring. Snore fest. Rip it out. Is there really a difference? I mean, who cares???? And I'm holding back here...
Nor me, but there is a reason why it is (probably) the best selling Hi Fi Mag.
SteveR750:Nor me, but there is a reason why it is (probably) the best selling Hi Fi Mag.
Agreed: don't think any of us here would want to be selling the kind of numbers the UK's 'pure hi-fi' titles struggle to maintain.
... but shouldn't it be "WHiFiS and Vision" rather than "WVision instead of HiFi" or "WVision and a bit of HiFi" ???!!!
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We have been reviewing DACs for as long as any magazine, but the fact is they remain a relatively specialist interest sector these days, and there's a lot of pressure on the space available in the magazine. And I'm not too sure that '10 DACs tested in our Supertest' is going to sell as many copies as a major test of 3D TVs.
Consulting Editor, What Hi-Fi? Sound and Vision/whathifi.com Audio Editor, Gramophone