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Yahoo
14-04-2025
- Yahoo
11 Cool New Gadgets to Keep on Your Radar
Catching you up on the past week's most notable product releases. Every product is carefully selected by our editors. If you buy from a link, we may earn a commission. Learn more Another week down, and, per usual, a bunch of new tech and gadgets have been announced. This past week, Sony introduced its latest portable Bluetooth speakers for summer, Fujifilm revealed its vintage-inspired instant film camera, and Rotel announced its affordable stereo integrated amplifier. But that's just scratching the surface. Below, we've rounded up all the most interesting new releases and announcements you might have missed from the past week. $1,000 at Moon Audio $1,000 at Crutchfield $1,499 at Rotel $200 at Sony $330 at Sony Learn More $249 at Campfire Audio $5,400 at Vertere Acoustics $580 at Marshall $499 at Audeze $1,600 at Amazon (E15) $2,000 at Amazon (E18) $99 at Denon
Yahoo
07-03-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Rotel's new headphone DAC/amp is a sleek desktop companion
If you've decided to invest in an audiophile-grade set of wired headphones or IEMs, you should definitely consider acquiring a headphone amp to power them. Perhaps something like Rotel's slick new DX-3. It's the company's first headphone amp and it combines premium amplification circuitry with state-of-the-art digital-to-analog conversion. It will be available in Europe and the U.K. in March in either black or silver colors, and it's expected to arrive in the U.S. soon after, for $1,499. Granted, that's not exactly an impulse buy for most people, but a headphone amp with the DX-3's specs will likely last for decades and can grow with you as your needs (and your system) change. The most striking thing about the DX-3 is its size and design. At 8.5 inches wide, 3 inches tall, and 9.75 inches deep, it's only slightly larger than the Wiim Ultra network music streamer — another device that's perfectly proportioned for desktop use. Clad in aluminum, the DX-3 has a full color display, two headphone outputs (4.4mm balanced, 6.35mm unbalanced), a three-setting gain switch, a source selection button, and an oversized, diamond-knurled volume knob. Inside, however, is where you'll find the DX-3's critical components. Digital-to-analog conversion (DAC) is handled by an ESS Sabre ES9028PRO chip — an 8-channel DAC with four dedicated channels per side (left/right). There's almost nothing that DAC can't handle. It will decode PCM up to 32-bit/384kHz and has native DSD support up to DSD256. You can choose to supply digital audio via optical, PC-USB, coaxial, or wirelessly via Bluetooth, with AAC, aptX, and aptX-HD codec compatibility. If you want to bypass the DAC, there's a dedicated analog amplification path that's serviced by a set of stereo RCA jacks. Rotel says that amplification is courtesy of an 'ultra-low noise, custom in-house manufactured, toroidal transformer with high current drivers and high-quality capacitors,' and that power is controlled via an audiophile grade NJW1195A fully differential analog controller delivering precise steps as refined as 0.5dB. The three-step gain control lets you fine-tune output power to match the specific impedance and sensitivity of your headphones. Want to use the DX-3 as standalone DAC or pre-amp? You can do that too, with your choice of unbalanced RCA or XLR balanced analog outputs. Finally, Rotel includes an aluminum-body remote so you can control the DX-3 from as far away as your headphone cables will let you sit (or further). The only thing missing is networking — there's no Ethernet or Wi-Fi. However, Roon users can nonetheless stream all of their favorite sources to the DX-3 if you use the PC-USB input, which is recognized as a Roon endpoint.
Yahoo
13-10-2024
- General
- Yahoo
The Canned Ingredient You Need To Seriously Stop Overlooking For Chili
We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Chili is one of those foods that has the power to inspire arguments. Beans or no beans? Whammy ingredients like cocoa powder or cinnamon, or heck to the no? Ingredient swaps: do they make chili better, or mess up a pot of otherwise hearty goodness? Every home cook has their opinions. There's one ingredient that you should be using in your chili, however, no matter what the nuances of your secret recipe are. Unbelievably, it comes in a can, but it's going to absolutely slam flavor into your chili pot. Hear us out: you need to be using Rotel tomatoes. Of course you're already using canned tomatoes for your chili. And, because you're a smart cookie, you're even checking the labels on your canned tomatoes for sugar and sodium content to better assess what impact their ingredients could have on your dish. Chili is, after all, all about a harmonious marriage of flavors. What Rotel has over other canned tomatoes is that it packs in the flavor, thanks to high-quality tomatoes, spicy green chili peppers, and a proprietary blend of spices that gives the product an inimitable zest. . There Isn't A Substitute For That Punch Of Flavor There are so many options for canned tomatoes that you really should peruse a guide before taking your chances at the grocery store, but Rotel stands head and shoulders above the rest when it comes to flavoring chili. First of all, . Secondly, you get that great spice blend that's in Rotel tomatoes. Obviously, the exact composition is a secret, but some copycat recipes suggest oregano and either coriander or fresh cilantro. Considering that building flavor is the main goal when cooking chili, Rotel goes a long way as an ingredient by imbuing your dish with some amazing taste right off the bat. As chili peppers and tomatoes are near-universal ingredients in chili recipes, it's also a safe bet that Rotel tomatoes are going to adapt nicely to your own particular pot of chili.
