Wavelength's Brick DAC

Calling something a Brick isn't normally a term of endearment, but Wavelength Audio's new Brick DAC
(Digital-to-Audio Converter) seems to be an exception. Reportedly pumping out the tunes at the quality, or even better than the quality, of a $10,000 CD player (at least according to Gary Krakow), the Brick takes your music away from the crappy soundcard that came with your PC and instead coaxes it gently out of a USB port and into pristine analog form through a 12AU7 tube preamp (we've seen external USB audio cards before, but this thing is supposed to be better). Make sure you have some high bitrate audio files to play through this thing, and as for the price (if you're a non-audiophile and you've made it this far, we recommend you move along at this point) you're looking at a cool $1,750. Yeah, you could nab a low end DAC for $100 or less, but let's not be silly.

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