Halide Design DAC HD USB DAC

John Atkinson has posted a review of the Halide Design DAC HD USB DAC ($495) at Stereophile. His conclusions:

“I very much enjoyed my time with the Halide Design DAC HD. That analog-like ease to its sound, coupled with its excellent reproduction of recorded space, allowed all the different types of music I played to clearly speak to me. Competitively priced at $495, the DAC HD is now my go-to device for USB audio playback. I agree with what my colleague Michael Lavorgna wrote in his review for AudioStream.com: “I just want to throw more music and more time at [the Halide DAC HD] so it can reciprocate in kind and completely distract me with music.”

You can read the full review here.