August 2009 was s a busy month! Dan Davis at ULTRAaudio.com, part of the SoundStage Network, reviews the DAC3 and CD2. "The pleasure of my extended listening sessions with them was characterized by a desire to hear 'just one more CD,' regardless of the hour. That, to me, distinguishes the best from the rest."

Dan Davis Reviews the CD2 and DAC3
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Steve Guttenberg's CD2/DAC3/REF500 (now REF500M) review in Home entertainment magazine is up on their site! "I love the REF500s' power without guilt, power without heat, and high performance without compromise ethos."

Steve Guttenberg Does A Bel Canto System in Home Entertainmen
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Dave Clark reviews the DAC3 and USB Link 24/96 in Positive Feedback Online: "The DAC3 simply does so much right and at only $2495… it's a no-brainer. Highly recommended and with no reservations."

PFO Reviews the DAC3 and USB Link 24/96
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Wes Phillips of Stereophile had this to say about the DAC3: "The Bel Canto put me more vividly in the studio with the small ensemble, particularly Michael Manring's soaring fretless bass." Just scroll dow to "That's how burlesque was born"!

Wes Phillips reviews the DAC3 for Stereophile
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Bel Canto's DAC3: A New Digital Reference says John Atkinson, Editor of Stereophile. "... The Bel Canto e.One DAC3 is the best-measuring digital component I have encountered. It offers some impressive audio engineering in both the digital and analog domains."

John Atkinson on the DAC3 in Stereophile
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A Reviewers' Choice Award from SoundStage.com for Tim Shea's DAC3/CD2 review. "... The superior sound of Bel Canto’s e.One CD2 and e.One DAC3 were very easy to hear and, just as important, to thoroughly enjoy."

SoundStage takes another look at the DAC3 and CD2
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Wes Phillips felt compelled to say, while reviewing the McIntosh MS750 music server, "If I auditioned the straight MS750 first, then switched to the e.One DAC3, several layers of fuzz fell away. If I auditioned the Bel Canto first and then switched to the Mac, I wanted to switch back immediately. It wasn't so much the clarity, frequency extension, or depth; it was that the DAC3 compelled me to care about the music, and the MS750 didn't, particularly." He is wise.

Wes Phillips-Stereophile
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"The DAC3 gives the presentation a presence so solid that you feel that you cut it with a knife. You don't hear through Bel Canto, you see it. It lends music an almost physical existence within the room."

John Potis- POSITIVE FEEDBACK ONLINE - ISSUE 37
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"The Bel Cantos counter in different currency, namely silence. Sure, anything unplugged from the mains will comply but the Bel Cantos manage even plugged in. They create the oft-cited pure, clear, inky blackgrounds to generate fascinating inter-note silence and cleanliness around the sounds."

Jorg Dames
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"The PRE3's signature qualities are its midrange presence along with a wonderful detailed presentation on both ends of the musical spectrum. The PRe3 did a great job of giving me a chance to hear minute details and intricate nuances but is also provided me with a very musical presentation that filled my listening room with wonderful sonic memories."

Craig Fitzpatrick, Stereotimes
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"In keeping with the music's spiritual mission, I had something of a secular epiphany by way of the DAC3 when the strands of a particularly complex vocal passage stood out as if individually lit...It's a pleasure to praise a significant accomplishment. Bel Canto Design?s e.One DAC3 is a peach of a product."

Mike Silverton- Ultraaudio.com
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The DAC3 is designed with the future in mind and the S300 can drive about any speaker you'd likely have on hand with bravado and aplomb; they clearly make beautiful music together. These fraternal Minnesota twins have hit one out of the park.

Mike Quinn - Jazz TimeS

"With the release of the DAC3, Bel Canto has taken a giant step toward realizing the full potential of CD sound reproduction; a potential that, for all we know, may not have been fully achieved yet, but with the DAC3 far exceeds anything I've heard before."

Russell Lichter
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Commenting on the performance of the DAC3- "Only the best converters, for example dCS, are capable of such perfect results. Here it is as if we have gone from a copy to the original: more nuances and transparence, less distortion and more definition."

Jean Hiraga, La Nouvelle Revue du Son
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"...the PRE3 can justifiably be thought of as passive where its audible contributions are concerned. 'Pure water' as John Potis and I refer to it - but with remote control. In keeping with Stronczer's philosophy of minimizing impediments to the pure flow of data transfer, the PRe3 is as neutral as imaginable."

Srajan Ebean, 6moons.com
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