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Rocky Mountain Audio Fest 2019 is less than a week away and Schiit Audio wasted little time taking a major dump on the proceedings with the announcement of two new products which are available for order this week. Both the Asgard headphone amplifier and Bifrost USB DAC have been part of the Schiit Audio line-up from the very beginning...

Listen on your favorite podcasting service. CEDIA Expo 2019 Show Report Podcast Host Ron from New Record Day talks with Techno Dad about Cedia Expo 2019. Their I.T. guy Joe N Tell joins the conversation. ;-) Techno Dad is now a robot. He's up in a Motel 6 because of possible fires in his area, and he is working with an upload...

NAD has been pushing streaming technology for many years with their Master series digital amplifiers, D 3020 V2, D 3045 Hybrid Amplifiers, and the Bluesound Node and PowerNode products (Bluesound and NAD are both siblings under the Lenbrook umbrella). When their rivals over at Naim Audio launched the Uniti range a number of years ago, you knew that a...

Reading the Sony press release about its support for MQA with the NW-ZX500 and NW-A100 series high-resolution audio players was like taking a strange trip down memory lane. I was nine years-old (apparently) when the first Walkman was introduced; more than 385 million were sold from 1979-2009 making it one of the most successful consumer products ever made. Those...

Listen to the New Record Day Podcast on Anchor. It’s hard to assemble a home audio system with so many options and ever-changing technology. Join Ron Brenay, the host of New Record Day, as he discusses the latest trends, new products, and answers questions to simplify your journey. Tune in each week as Ron and industry veterans cut through all...

Amazon's much-anticipated Amazon Music HD, has finally launched and with it comes millions of CD-quality and high-resolution audio tracks that consumers can stream. The new streaming service offers 50 million tracks with a CD-quality bitrate of 16 bit/44.1kHz (which Amazon interestingly has labelled as "HD tracks") but also millions more in 24-bit/192 kHz which will raise more than a few...

Does the world really need any more soundbars? We were hoping that consumers were finally getting over that and thinking about investing in a dedicated 5.1 surround system again. But we would be wrong. Very wrong. Consumers are deeply committed to their soundbars for a number of good reasons in 2019 -- cost, they sound better now, cost, and...