New SPL Diamond Desktop DAC and Preamplifier Serves Up to Six Digital Stereo Sources

Sound Performance Lab (SPL) continues to design extraordinary audio electronics, and forgetting to let the world know about it. The latest product to be dropped on the world by the company is a new digital to analog converter worthy of attention by those who need top audio playback quality from their digital sources. The new Diamond from SPL is a premium DAC and preamplifier with support for up to 32-bit/768kHz digital PCM and DSD256 audio decoding through the AKM AK4490 DAC and analog DLP120 dual low-pass filter chips.

Bowers & Wilkins launched a state-of-the art soundbar. The Panorama 3 was designed to get the most from the latest immersive or spatial audio content, offering an all-in-one elegant loudspeaker solution with room-filling sound for films, TV shows, games, and even music. As a single ultra-low-profile and easy-to-use component with built-in Dolby Atmos, the soundbar expands when paired with the Bowers & Wilkins Music App, ensuring high-resolution music streaming from a wide range of services.

Five years ago, Ferrofish launched its A32 Series, a set of flexible AD/DA and format converters, which quickly became one of the most popular converters in their class for live sound, broadcasters and recording studios. Now, the German pro-audio manufacturer has announced the next-generation with the release of the new A32pro Series of cost-effective and highly flexible AD/DA converters, continuing Ferrofish’s tradition of reliable, transparent audio devices with high-channel counts.

Belkin, the consumer electronics brand specialized in Apple peripherals and accessories, announced the Soundform Connect audio adapter that turns any traditional stereo speaker into an Apple AirPlay 2-enabled speaker. This is increasingly important in most homes who already have great sound systems in place, and just need a way to connect them to the latest source devices, such as the iPhone, an iPad or a Mac computer, all of which stream high-quality audio over Apple’s recently updated AirPlay 2 protocol.

Kanto is a Canadian audio company specializing in colorful powered bookshelf and desktop speakers, designed for modern lifestyles. These compact speakers are not only good sounding and affordable, but they have all-in-one features such as an integrated USB DAC, phono preamp, Bluetooth and optical TOSLINK inputs, and can be connected with one of the Kanto powered subwoofers. But Kanto also wants to promote high end sound quality in the same form factor, and that’s why they launched the Kanto TUK speakers and had a dedicated demo room at RMAF 2019.