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Introduction
Sample Desktop Audio System Configurations:
Earphone/Headphone-Based Systems
Speaker-Based Systems
Desktop Audio Components: Top Picks from
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Audioengine 5+
Bowers & Wilkins MM-1
CEntrance MasterClass 2504
Focal XS Book
Monitor Audio Silver RX1
PSB Imagine Mini
Quad 9L Active
Silverline Minuet Supreme
Triangle Color
EArPHonES & HEADPHonES
Audeo Phonak PFE 232
Audeze LCD-2, Rev. 2
Beyerdynamic T1 Tesla
Fischer Audio FA-002W High Edition
Focal Spirit One
HiFiMAN HE-300
HiFiMAN HE-500
Phiaton MS400
Sennheiser HD-800
Shure SRH840
Ultimate Ears In-Ear Reference Monitor
V-MODA Crossfade M-80
Westone TrueFit 4
DESKToP AUDIo ELECTronICS
Alpha Design Labs/Furutech Cruise & Stride
Audioengine D1
Burson HA-160
Cambridge Audio DacMagic Plus
CEntrance DACmini CX
High Resolutions Technologies iStreamer
Musical Fidelity V-DAC II
Musical Fidelity V-CAN II
NuForce uDAC-2
NuForce Icon iDO
NuForce Icon HDP
Peachtree iDecco
Peachtree iNova
Ray Samuels Audio SR-71B Blackbird
Wadia Digital 151 PowerDAC mini
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DESKTOP AUDIO: GET CLOSER TO YOUR MUSIC – NOW!
W
elcome to the
Playback Guide to Desktop Audio.
For some people, the term “desktop
audio” conjures up images of listening to cheap computer speakers while seated at a
computer working on a project. For others it might evoke thoughts of plugging a pair of
inexpensive earbuds to listen to background music
while
surfing the web on a laptops. But frankly
we hope you’ll set your sights much higher than that.
Finally, we provide three substantial blocks of product reviews, in
part to help expose you to the sheer range and variety of desktop
audio components now available.
• Earphones and Headphones
(13 decidedly performance-
minded earphones and headphones that can help make your
listening experiences rewarding and memorable).
• Desktop Speakers
(9 desktop speakers—some passive, some
self-powered, and some that even include built-in DACS—all
small enough to fit on a desk, but that sound big enough to be
worthy of discriminating listeners).
• Desktop Audio Electronics
(an eclectic mix of 15 desktop
audio components, most of them surprisingly versatile, and all
of them capable of sophisticated, compelling, and satisfying
sound quality).
We hope you enjoy this Guide and find it useful in your search
for superior desktop sound. Watch for our Guide to Earphones
and Guide to Headphones later this year. Enjoy.
Chris Martens,
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In an era where many of us are working longer hours and
almost living at our desks, it can be hard to find time to listen to
music at home. But that doesn’t mean we have to abandon hope
of having high-quality listening experiences. No way! All that’s
needed, is the imagination and determination to redefine our
workspaces as listening spaces, and then to find the equipment
that can help bring beautiful music to our desktops in a powerful,
moving way. That, in a nutshell, is what this Guide is about. It’s a
Guide for people who love music, who refuse to settle for sonic
mediocrity, and are looking for something better.
We begin our Guide with illustrations showing
Sample System
Configurations,
both for headphone-based and speaker-based
desktop audio systems. Use these samples to gather ideas and
to stimulate thinking about what kind of system might work best
for you.
Next we provide
Playback’s Top Picks for Desktop Audio,
with sections on Earphones, Headphones, Desktop Speakers,
and Desktop Audio Electronics. The products we discuss are
all strong, reliable performers capable of delivering high-quality
sound and good value. Use our suggestions, then, as starting
point from which to launch your own explorations.
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