Can LAiV’s $849 Crescendo VERSE R2R DAC, preamp, and headphone amp compete with FiiO, Topping, and Schiit in a crowded desktop category?

Audio specialist FiiO has been launching new products at pace this year. The latest product from the brand is the new FiiO K11 R2R desktop DAC/amplifier which is perfect for those of us who like to ...

Can the $849 LAiV Crescendo VERSE deliver real R2R DAC performance in a one box system for headphones and speakers?

Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.

I honestly didn't think it was possible for a $350 unit to challenge my long-standing benchmark, but the FiiO Warmer R2R DAC ...

The engineers at FiiO don’t appear to sleep. Hardly a day goes by without another product launch being announced by the audio brand. The latest is the FiiO K11 R2R – a desktop DAC and headphone ...

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 ...

Annoying speed bumps, which have become ubiquitous onroadways, force you to either slow down or find a way aroundthem. While driving recently, I needed to negotiate one ofthose bumps, and doing so ...

The I65GV25_R2RDAC_01 specifies a 10-bit R2R DAC. At the output side a voltage-mode buffer is used to generate the output voltage and filter out the e ...