Arcam airDAC

Lively rhythms ; Clear, subtle and detailed ; Stereo imaging ; Connections ; Price

Connections for USB, Bluetooth and 3.5mm would have been useful

The airDAC is good, but falls short of greatness because of a couple of obvious oversights.

Refined and entertaining performance ; Excellent AirPlay implementation ; Solid build

No 192khz Support via UPnP ; No internet radio ; Can sound slightly restrained at times

The airDAC is in many ways more streamer than DAC but I find myself enthusiastic about the product that Arcam has built here. More and more receivers offer this sort of functionality as standard but what they will almost certainly struggle to do is...