exaSound Audio Design is proud to receive for a second year in a row the Audio Oasis! Award at the Rocky Mountain Audio Fest 2014.

 

 

 

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The Three Musketeers See the RMAF 2014

by Lynn Olson 

 

And a surprise. My favorite room at the show, exaSound, did not have high-efficiency speakers, tube amps, a phonograph, or even a linestage. I'll come right out and say it; this was the best digital sound I've ever heard, and at times a dead ringer for first (not second) generation analog mastertape. The system couldn't have been much simpler:

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Stereophile, one of the most prestigious printed magazines for audiophiles has published the 2014 Fall Edition Recommended Components List.  The exaSound e28 DAC is listed as an A+ product:

 

Stereophile 2014 Recommended Components Fall Edition:

e28 DAC: Class A+ Digital Processor

e28 DAC: Class A Surround-Sound Component

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AudioStream.com gave their highest "Greatest Bits" Class A award to the e22 DAC.   You can follow this link to read the full review by Steven Plaskin.

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"exaSound offered an interesting demo consisting of a comparison between stereo and multichannel music using five Magnepan 1.7 speakers driven by a Bryston 9B-SST-2 amp. I found the surround versions to simply sound more natural and not at all gimmicky which you might expect from multichannel music"

Michael Lavorgna •  audiostream.com

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New Frontiers: Positive Feedback writes about how ExaSound is shaping the world of DSD:

exaSound Brings Quad DSD to Mac, Support for Linux and Windows Server Enhancements.

by Brian Moura

 

 

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From the land of ice hockey, frozen wine, and decent beer, come Two DACs manufactured by a small company in Canada called exaSound, run by a smart guy named George Klissarov. Both support PCM up to 32/384 and DSD up to DSD256 over USB. The e20 mkIII will run you $2499 and the e22 will run you $3499. exaSound also sells an 8-channel DAC called the e28, for $3849. See here for a spec comparison chart.

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"exaSound Audio Design has managed to carve out a conspicuous place in the high end audiophile DAC market since beginning business less than 4 years ago..."

 

"The first sound characteristic of the e22 that grabbed my attention was the enormous soundstage that this DAC is capable of rendering."

 

"The e22 struck me as being very neutral sounding without excessive midrange warmth or other colorations. Resolution, focus and definition from top to bottom were excellent. Most users will find this to be a very revealing DAC that can dig down to expose the smallest details of the music..."

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