Integrated Amp Reviews

Editor: We are really happy to read this review, our first in Stereophile. We are particularly happy to have the quality of our DAC confirmed. We have worked really hard on designing a DAC with very low noise and very low jitter levels, without going through the roof on cost. Obviously, we needed to make a few sacrifices; eg, as John Atkinson mentions, on 88.2kHz over USB to meet the price target. But the lack of asynchronous USB is intentional, as we believe we can achieve even lower jitter levels with our solution.

We also read that Herb Reichert was missing an extra analog input. We are happy to inform you that you can actually change the Home Theater input to a regular analog input. You can do this from the menu settings. Unfortunately, this was not explained in the early manual that accompanied Herb's review sample, so he couldn't possibly have known.—Anders Ertzeid, Director of Sales and Marketing, Hegel Music Systems