Benchmark & Aretai - Ecoustics - Best in Show
"The Aretai Contra 200F loudspeakers were driven by two Benchmark AHB2 power amplifiers, paired with a Benchmark HPA4 pre-amp/headphone amp. It was...
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Gene Falls in Love with a Speaker Powered by Benchmark
"The Aretai Contra 200F towers absolutely floored us with their deep, punchy bass, silky-smooth highs, and pinpoint imaging—so precise they seemed ...
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DAC3 - Stereophile 2025 Recommended Component - Digital Processors
DAC3 - Receives Stereophile's Highest "Class A+" Rating "The DAC3 was all about depths, in several respects...I heard deeper into the music." - ...
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John Siau at CAF 2025 - Seminars and Interview - SECRETS of Home Theater and HiFi
"One does not often run into John Siau from Benchmark Media Systems at an audio show, and here at CapFest, John was conducting a couple of seminars...
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Benchmark Room at CAF 2025, Carlo Lo Raso, SECRETS of Home Theater and High Fidelity
Benchmark LA4 and two AHB2 Power Amplifiers "This is almost the exact combination of electronics that I used when I reviewed the Krypton3X myself....
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Benchmark System Review - Ricky Dasler, Living Sound, New Zealand
"With over 40 years as an audiophile and more than half those years as a hi-fi retailer, I feel I’ve finally put together a stereo that ticks all m...
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Benchmark Converters at Abbey Road - Geoff Pesche
"What are the Latest Advancements in Mastering?" "Geoff Pesche weighs in on how the mastering team at Abbey Road Studios achieve first-class result...
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DAC3 Review - Alan Sircom, hi-fi+
"A Damn Good, No-Frills Digital Converter" "Benchmark Media Systems’ no-nonsense approach to all things audio is rare today." "Uniformly Good" "Th...
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DAC3 - Award Nominee - Best Digital Audiophile Product of 2024 (Cost No Object)
2024 Nominees Benchmark Media DAC3 B DAC, $1895 Bricasti M3 DAC, $6000 Bricasti M19 CD-SACD Player, $10,000 T+A DAC 200, $7620 Weiss Engineering H...
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DAC3 Review - Jerry Del Colliano
"Benchmark is a stalwart brand in pro audio, but has carved out a very respectable niche in the audiophile world with their diminutive but powerfu...
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DAC3 & AHB2 - System Review, Trevor Butler, The-Ear.net
"I began with the DAC3 HGC and AHB2 powering the glorious Morel Avyra 633 three-way floorstanders." "This pairing created a full-bodied sound which...
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DAC3 - Stereophile 2024 Recommended Component - Digital Processors
DAC3 - Receives Stereophile's Highest "Class A+" Rating "The DAC3 was all about depths, in several respects...I heard deeper into the music." - J...
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DAC3 - Class A+ Recommended Processor - Stereophile
DAC3 HGC, DAC3 B - Receive Stereophile's Highest "Class A+" Rating "The DAC3 B is a stripped- down, lower-priced version of the DAC3 HGC, which o...
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DAC3 Review - Michael Zisserson, Future Audiophile
DAC3 HGC - "Does Not Color the Sound of Your Audio" "The DAC3 HGC is a professional audio component used to make, monitor, and engineer the very re...
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AXPONA Review - Secrets of Home Theater and High Fidelity
DAC3, AHB2 - Driving Note Line Array "The afternoon before the start of the show I ran into John Siau of Benchmark Media Systems. He says to me qui...
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AXPONA Show Report - Stereophile Magazine
DAC3 B and AHB2 - Driving Laufer Teknik Note Line Array Two AHB2 bridged-mono amplifiers were driving the 4-Ohm line arrays (48 drivers per side). ...
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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...
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What Led You to Benchmark? - Roon Labs Community Forum
"I’m curious as to the reasons other owners of Benchmark gear decided to choose it over other brands. For me it was the spectacular measured perfor...
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