Mytek Audio Now Shipping All-New Liberty DAC II

Mytek Audio just announced the all-new Liberty DAC II, touted as "the new portal for all things digital from Mytek Audio." Capable of exceptional quality playback and monitoring of all high resolution digital formats in both PCM up to 768kHz, and DSD up to 256, the Liberty DAC II also includes a built-in certified hardware MQA decoder and a reference grade headphone amplifier capable of driving complex headphone loads.

Roon Labs is teasing existing and potential new users with its upcoming Roon 1.8 software, the front-end for its unique and powerful music aggregation platform. Designed from early stages to transform the digital music ecosystem, Roon always focused on the interface of its software and the almost tactile experience of selecting, discovering and enjoying music. Now, Roon is ready to introduce a new look and feel, that refines the user experience, improves search, and much more.

New York-based Mytek Digital revealed the details on its new Empire DAC/Streamer/Preamplifier, supposed to be the flagship of a new Empire series of very high-end audio products. As the company describes, this is an "all out" assault on the state-of-the-art, establishing Mytek as a top echelon player in the high-performance audio arena. The Streamer will be “Powered by Roon OS” and features an internal Roon Core that can drive both the ultra-high performance Empire DAC and external Roon endpoints.