HPA4 Review - Herb Reichert, Stereophile
HPA4 - "Satisfied my Engineering Mind and my Audiophile Lust" "Spending a month with the HPA4 forced this old triode-tube lover to first acknowle...
HPA4 - "Satisfied my Engineering Mind and my Audiophile Lust" "Spending a month with the HPA4 forced this old triode-tube lover to first acknowle...
HPA4 - Bench Test As a line preamplifier, the HPA4 performed almost identically to Benchmark's superb-measuring LA4, which Kal Rubinson reviewed ...
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...
AHB2 - "A-Rated Power Amplifier" The AHB2 received Stereophile's top "A" rating for power amplifiers. "Much more apparent low-level detail in alr...
LA4 - "Put a Big Smile on My Face" "As soon as everything powered up, there was a big smile on my face." "With the LA4 in control of the system, e...
LA4 - Bench Test "I measured the Benchmark LA4's performance with my Audio Precision SYS2722 system." "Benchmark's LA4 is the widest-bandwidth, ...
Stereophile's editors chose 10 products to receive their top award, the "2018 Product of the Year - Editor's Choice Award". Two Benchmark products ...
AHB2 - Top 3 Finalist - "Amplification Component of the Year" The competition in the amplification category was very tight. There was a two-way t...
Tie for First Place, 16x Price Difference DAC3 HGC - Top Two Finalist - "Digital Component of the Year" "This contest produced another tie, and ye...
"In my September 2018 column, I wrote of my discovery of miniDSP's U-DIO8, which converts multichannel data fed to its USB port to eight S/PDIF or...
DAC3 and AHB2 - System Review DAC3 - "Better than 21-Bit Performance" "John Atkinson's measurements corroborated Benchmark's claim that the DAC3 i...
AHB2 - "Class A Recommended Component" - 2018 - Power Amps 'Class A' is Stereophile's highest classification for recommended components. Very few...
DAC3 HGC - Class A+ Recommended Component - 2018 - Digital Processors 'Class A+' is Stereophile's highest classification for digital processors. ...
DAC3 HGC - "Astonishing Fidelity and Emotional Expressiveness" "Benchmark Media Systems’ DAC3 HGC is evidence that an engineering-focused company—...
DAC3 HGC - "All I can say is 'Wow!'" "The Benchmark DAC3 offers extremely low levels of harmonic distortion from all its outputs. Intermodul...
AHB2 - Stereophile Class-A Recommended Component "The AHB2 makes use of THX Corporation's Achromatic Audio Amplifier (AAA) technology, in which a...
DAC2 HGC - Stereophile A+ Recommended Component "Although similar in appearance to previous Benchmark models ... , the new DAC2 HGC uses four 32-...