Audiobyte Hydra X+ USB Bridge

Srajan Ebaen has posted a review of the Audiobyte Hydra X+ USB bridge (€699) at 6moons. His conclusions:

“With systems dialled for speed and lucidity, upgraded USB converters come more fully into their own and now are well worth investigating. Given expected deltas of performance, I’d simply attend to a proper cable loom first. If you’ve heard what a well-engineered equipment rack can do, that’s more the general type or flavour difference you’ll obtain from an external USB-to-S/PDIF box. The remaining qualifier is obvious. What’s built into your current DAC must leave sufficient room for improvement to be relevant. Against that proviso the Hydra X+ strikes me as a sensibly priced high-performance option for DACs up to €4’000. Of course you have to figure on a quality digital cable and whatever its cost might be to complete this proposition.”

You can read the full review here.