DEQX HDP-3 Preamp Processor

Martin Appel has posted a review of the DEQX HDP-3 Preamp Processor ($3995) at Audiophilia. His conclusions:

The bottom line is that Kim Ryrie has improved an already outstanding product and created one that blurs the line between digital and analogue. Detail without edginess, unbridled musicality, transparent, dynamic and a level of involvement with the performance that is simply stunning. I’ve tried to describe, using some of our audiophile terminology, what one hears with the HDP-3 processor in your system and words don’t do it justice. It behooves you to try one — once in your system, you won’t let go. Removing it from your system will return you to a duller, two dimensional stereo that’s lost its magic. My system would be lost without it.

You can read the full review here.