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Greatest Audio Geek Contest
The Greatest Audio Geek Contest is for people who love music and audio gear. Moon Audio's customers, partners, and supporters are audio geeks. Founder Drew Baird and the team at Moon Audio is searching for fellow audio geeks. Share - Share and Gallery Favorite Audio Gear from fellow audio geeks by entering the Greatest Audio Geek Contest. Hire - Discover and Hire A New Business Development Director. Searching For Audio Geeks Moon Audio makes and sells high fidelity audio gear to audiophiles and music lovers. We love hearing from and interacting with fellow audio geeks. Every day we help answer gear... -
Summer Audio Gear Trends - Roon to Brooklyn
Audio innovations can be slow in the summer. As heat climbs audio manufacturers, like many industries, go on vacation and begin to gear up for fall. Summer 20128 saw exceptions to the everyone is at the beach rule. This summer featured four cool things, audio trends and game-changing new streaming hardware from Roon Labs. Roon Nucleus - Music Streaming Networks... -
Roon Nucleus Review- Marty Music Magic
Roon Nucleus Review - Marty Music Magic is about the search for a better musical NOW by remembering the past. Remember when a big part of listening to music was holding, reading, and contemplating an album? There was something magical about holding Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd, Sgt. Peppers by the Beatles, and Joshua Tree by U2. ... -
Three Audio Upgrades To Love Your Music Again This Summer
Roon Labs, makers of the new Roon Nucleus home music streaming network, defines the problem for today’s music lovers well: “In the transition from physical to digital media, something has been lost. We have more convenience, but no feeling of excitement or engagement.” Back in the day music engaged many senses. Sight Album art became the paintings of baby boomer youth... -
Chord HUGO TT 2 - Available Fall 2018
Chord Electronics announced the Chord Hugo TT 2 last week in Munich as one of its newest advancements in DAC technology. TT stands for "table-top" and its meant to be a desktop version developed from the multi-award-winning transportable Hugo 2. The Hugo TT 2 is bigger, better and more advanced in every way and it sets a new benchmark for tabletop... -
Chord Qutest Review
Welcome the new Chord Qutest DAC. Aren't you the Qutest? Chord electronics new products never disappoint. Their most recent digital to analog converter (DAC), the Chord Qutest is a giant killer. Essentially the DAC section of the Hugo 2 placed in an aluminum brick, literally an aluminum brick, Chord removed Bluetooth input, the headphone amp circuit, and battery. Removing those features... -
Bronze Dragon IEM Cable
There's a new Dragon in town - the Bronze Dragon for 2 pin in-ear monitors (IEMs). In a brief interview this week, Moon Audio founder and chief engineer Drew shared why his company created a new Dragon. "We noticed some IEMs sound thin and cold," Drew explained, "and that's easy to understand given the challenge of creating spacious and warm... -
A&K Ultimate Ultima
A&ultima SP1000 Music Player Astell & Kern's newest music player is a one-of-a-kind, high-end powerful high resolution music player equipped with the latest advanced features: Octa-core CPU for faster, smarter, smoother performance 5-inch HD display for the best viewing experience Multi-functional wheel for convenient, one finger ON/OFF control, and push/turn features Stainless Steel / Copper exterior that resists aging and external... -
The Mighty KANN
The NEW Single DAC, AKM4490 The Kann Music Player by Astell & Kern utilizes the same DAC chip from the 300 Series Players and the same bit to bit playback as the AK380. What's different? Answer: quite a bit. KANN Music Player Features Features of the Astell & Kern Kann Music Player includes: 32bit/384kHz Bit to Bit Playback & Native DSD Playback. 6200mAh battery... -
Hugo Vs Hugo Squared
Chord Hugo First Generation Chord Electronics released the Chord Hugo reference-level portable headphone amplifier three years ago at CES 2014. The Chord Hugo was a GAMECHANGER in Dac technology and sound as referenced here in my original blog post. Chord continues to focus on creating a more convincing sonic replication for the listener, and the new Chord Hugo 2 is... -
Focal Utopia Headphone Review
Focal, the French speaker maker, blows up what the word “headphones” means with the new Utopia headphones. After spending several hours with Focal’s “Beryllium M-Shaped Drivers” a few things were clear. Focal’s Utopia headphones are the best cans I’ve heard and I own a pair of Shure KSE1500s and Fostex TH900. Thanks to friends at Moon-Audio.com, I’ve listened to great...
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