DAC3 B Review - John Atkinson, Stereophile
DAC3 B - Receives Stereophile's Highest "Class A+" Rating "I never auditioned the DAC3 HGC in my own system, so when I got an opportunity to borr...
DAC3 B - Receives Stereophile's Highest "Class A+" Rating "I never auditioned the DAC3 HGC in my own system, so when I got an opportunity to borr...
AHB2 - Stereo Times "Most Wanted" Award "Merriam-Webster defines a benchmark as "something that serves as a standard by which others may be measur...
AHB2 - "I Purchased Two Units With My Hard-Earned Money" "The highest compliment I can give to AHB2 is that I purchased not one, but two units with...
LA4 - "Best Volume Control" "By far, without question this is the best volume control I have ever encountered." "I must single out for special me...
HPA4 - "Best High-End Stereo Preamplifier" "The Benchmark Media Systems HPA4 preamplifier is an exceptionally transparent and well-designed audio ...
HPA4 - Ear 5-Star Rating "Benchmark’s HPA4 is the first item of audio kit I have encountered that peels apart the ying and the yang of audio to exp...
AHB2 - "A-Rated Power Amplifier" The "A" rating is the highest honor awarded in the Power Amplifier category. "Benchmark's AHB2 makes use of THX ...
HPA4 - "Class A Recommended" Headphone Amplifier "With the hard-to-drive HiFiMan Susvara headphones, the HPA4 showed each instrument in dramatic ...
LA4 - "Class A Recommended Preamplifier" "Class A" is the highest level awarded in the "Two Channel Preamplifier" category. "Like other Benchmark...
DAC3 HGC - "A+ Rated Digital Processor" "A+" is the highest level awarded in the "Digital Processor" category. "The DAC3 was all about depths, in...
AHB2 - "Thumbs Firmly Aloft" Stereonet Applause Award - Benchmark AHB2 "I can't think of many amps with dual hi-fi and pro functionality. Maybe B...
DAC3 B, HPA4, AHB2 - "Purchased Them for My Reference System - Nuff Said!" "The Benchmark 'stack' ... saw use with a wide variety of loudspeakers ...
LA4 - Absolute Sound Product of the Year "Suffice it to say that, as with every Benchmark product I’ve used or reviewed, everything works smoothl...
DAC3, LA4, AHB2 - "Matched My Idea of Reference Sound" "Benchmark is an audio brand that started in Texas in 1983. The company then moved to th...
DAC3 B - "Neutral and Transparent" "In the areas of tonal neutrality and transparency, the B sounds like every other Benchmark I’ve heard, which i...
AHB2 - "Legendary Performance Award 2020" "My first taste of this remarkable new amplifier came earlier this year in April at Chicago's AXPONA ...
DAC3 HGC - "A+ Recommended Digital Processor" The DAC3 HGC received Stereophile's top "A+" rating. Jim Austin wrote, "The DAC3 was all about depth...
LA4 - "Class A - Recommended Preamplifier" The LA4 received Stereophile's top "Class A" rating in the preamplifier category. "Benchmark's LA4 i...