The iFi iDSD Pro. I came to discover ifi after a past of positive and negative experiences in the audio in the last 30 years, in the search for the holy grail of sound in my living room, I have had a lot of brands, Nad, Rotel, Mark Levinson, Linn, Sony, Cyrus, Audiolab, Pioneer, Marantz, Rega, Bowers & Wilkins, Castle Speakers, Vandersteen, Paragon Regent Speakers, monitor Audio, Kef, Mission Cyrus speakers, only to name a few. Some of my old gear I sold until today I remember them as pieces I regret not having today, My Marantz CD10 and Marantz...

I have a real problem with ifi ITube, and is that when it goes out from the sound I really miss is magic it does, the brain misses the natural presentation and body that the iTube gives to the sound. With the iTube in the middle ou the audio chain the presentation and soundstage is more human and the overall result is longer audio sessions without fatigue. This is something you notice immediately when you take it out, the body and the magic it does simply vanish, so you can’t live without it, that’s the effect of valves. So for sometime now I was...