The FiiO Warmer R2R DAC serves up three slices of audiophile catnip for €379/US$399: tubes, resistor ladders and analogue VU meters. That’s a lot of vintage-flavoured kit crammed into a half-width ...

On the output side, the K11 R2R provides both single ended and balanced headphone connections. The 6.35 mm single ended ...

Resistor ladder decoding for more natural, organic audio Excellent connectivity both in and out £279 / $319 / €319 (about AU$570) If you'd like to your music to take you higher, FiiO has just the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Technology journalist specializing in audio, computing and Apple Macs. FiiO is an audio brand with a wide range of portable and ...

FiiO's new K13 R2R desktop DAC and headphone amp uses a resistor ladder to deliver ultra low distortion and high accuracy. This latest model has higher output power and more connection options, for ...

Combining PWM with a small R-2R ladder improves both. It reduces PWM ripple significantly and increases the DAC’s resolution. In this Design Idea, an eight-resistor array and three output pins ...

Shanling’s SCD3.3 treats SACD like it never died—true DSD output, a 212-resistor R2R DAC, tube stage, and enough engineering muscle to shame most “modern” players. Let’s be honest: outside the ...

The HiBy RS2 player is a new portable digital audio player based on Darwin Audio Architecture and equipped with the R2R Resistor Ladder Network DAC Array which is now available to preorder priced at ...

Since most engineers went through intensive course work in engineering school studying the analog-to-digital converter (ADC), operational amplifier (op amp), digital-to-analog converter (DAC) and ...