Benchmark just announced the next version of its DAC1, the DAC1 Pre. This is now the top of the DAC1 line and it interfaces not only with digital equipment, but with traditional analog equipment while still retaining all the features of the original DAC1 USB series. Benchmark created this DAC to interface directly with music servers among other equipment. I wish I wouldn't have purchased my DAC1 USB a month ago! Read more for the official press release from Benchmark. 
Slim Devices / Logitech Announce Squeezebox Duet. Here is a quick CES pre show update for Friday morning. Wadia announced what could be the best audiophile iPod product to date. Wadia's new iTransport, debuting at CES 2008 in a few days, delivers bit-perfect digital audio from every single iPod currently available. Audiophiles can finally bypass the internal DAC of the iPod and use it as a high end music server. Read more for a picture of the new iTransport and the very nice price.
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The January 2008 issue of The Perfect Vision, the sister publication of The Abso!ute Sound, will be the magazine's last issue. The January 2008 issue of Playback will be the first issue to incorporate the content that would have previously been published in The Perfect Vision. If you're note familiar with Playback, it is a newer online magazine focusing on music almost 100%. Here is a link to the free online magazine. Over the last couple years it was clear The Perfect Vision was floundering. The publishers says the changes in format over that time to include more consumer electronics coverage were met with positive feedback. I'm not jumping onboard with that statement, but you can take if for whatever you want.
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