Human Audio Libretto HD CD Player and Tabla DAC

Wojciech Pacuła has posted a review of the Human Audio Libretto HD CD player (€7990) and Tabla DAC (€599) at High Fidelity. His conclusions:

“The Libretto HD is superbly made and the design is just fantastic. Both of these things put it significantly higher in my hierarchy than the Lektor AIR V-edition which I use on a daily basis. All those little details, like more intuitive disc loading, beautiful design etc. It also sports a digital input, the feature long announced by Ancient Audio that never saw the light of a day. On the flip side is a too small display, at least for me, and the lack of information about digital signal parameters, not even whether the input is synchronized or not. The sound is so exceptionally smooth and saturated that it seems warm but really is not – the sound is too pure, too polite. Tone is great although set slightly higher than in my Lektor. Both space and differentiation, particularly of bass and treble, are better in the Polish player.”

You can read the full review here.