Tag Archives: HD audio

TEAC HA-P50

REVIEW: TEAC HA-P50 headphone amplifier

July 28, 2014 · by · in Reviews · 9 Comments

Compact and very capable, great-sounding and with a good range of digital input flexibility The boom in the sales of headphones has seen the hi-fi industry undergoing two changes: one is the large number of companies getting into the personal audio market with their own range of headphones, and the other is the appearance of […]

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So, as if we weren’t confused enough by DSD, FLAC, PCM and HRA…

June 20, 2014 · by · in Blogs · 9 Comments

The Americans are having another crack at defining what makes a high-resolution recording – and the goalposts are on the move again You may remember that, at the beginning of this year, I expressed some dismay about the coining of the term Hi-Res Audio, or HRA, by America’s Consumer Electronics Association, and the rather lacklustre […]