An unused screen can give a listening room a useful view of what is playing. Roon OS 3.0 adds a native HDMI Now Playing display for Nucleus One, Nucleus Titan and ROCK running on a supported Intel NUC with UEFI boot. Roon’s staff announcement is dated October 28.
Silent Angel’s H1 combines network playback, digital-to-analog conversion and internal storage expansion with a 5.5-inch non-touch display.
Nine drivers in one earphone give a designer plenty to coordinate. Effect Audio’s Perseus combines four transducer types in a $999 in-ear monitor. The interesting engineering question is how the complete system works together, rather than how impressive the count looks on a card.
A lower entry price is welcome news for a desktop audio system. Schiit introduced the Magni 6 on October 30 at $99 for the headphone amplifier, or $169 with the optional Mesh 2 DAC card installed. Those are two configurations with different jobs, so compare the complete setup you need.
A shelf of CDs is already a music library. Musical Fidelity’s B1xcd offers a conventional way to keep using it: a dedicated tray-loading player with its own digital-to-analog conversion and a supplied remote. The company’s availability announcement is dated October 27.
The compact CD stereo has a particular appeal: a CD mechanism, amplification and speakers designed to work together. Panasonic’s Japanese website now carries a short notice marking the end of production for that category in its domestic lineup.
A portable headphone setup can be a place to experiment with tubes. HiFiGo has announced the MUSE HiFi M7, a USB and Bluetooth DAC and headphone amplifier with four miniature JAN6418 tubes. The retailer’s launch announcement lists a price of $399.99.
Volumio Nova updates the music player’s interface, with revised navigation and layouts. DIY devices require Premium for Nova; Volumio’s own hardware includes the upgrade.
OLLO’s X2 includes unencrypted, unit-specific calibration values and a printed copy, with replaceable parts and preorders listed for shipping from December 7.
Chesky Audio’s LC1.2 and LC2.2 introduce revised cabinets and acoustic hardware at announced pair prices of $1,250 and $2,000.
