Reviews
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Tone reviews the Black EX Integrated
“[T]his one’s at the top of our list.”
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Daves Hifi Audio Reviews and the E1X Integrated
“Any true audiophile could live with this thing!”
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6moons.com reviews the e1X DAC
“Really, D/A converters are like mushrooms or rabbits. They proliferate, everywhere. Truly smart ones are few and far between. Bel Canto’s E1X DAC is one of the smart ones.” Srajan Ebaen
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e1X Integrated reviewed by Michael Lavorgna
“[I}f you enjoy spending time with your music as the sole center of attention, the E1X rewards with music’s riches.”
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Audio Esoterica reviews e1X
“…make listening to these Bel Canto E1Xes a priority, simply because they work so well and sound so amazing.”
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e1X Integrated in The Absolute Sound
Steven Stone: “It’s a high-performance piece of kit that delivers sonics on a par with a combination of reference components at double the cost.”
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ACI 600 on the Cover of Stereophile
Be on the lookout for the new Stereophile featuring the BLACK ACI 600: “One Amp to Rule Over Them.”
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Stereophile Follow-Up Review on the REF600Ms
Herb Reichert: “The Bel Canto Design REF600M’s strongest trait was its uncanny ability to make simply recorded music sound hauntingly real. With every loudspeaker I tried, the Bel Cantos offered up weight, body, punch, and crystalline detail better than some of the most expensive amplifiers I know.”
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Audio Esoterica Reviews the Black ACI 600
Reviewer Sean Ferris: In short, the Bel Canto ACI 600 is an ‘I can do everything’ masterpiece!
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The Absolute Sound reviews the REF600M
“How good is the REF600M? To my ears it’s good enough to qualify as the best all-around power amplifier I’ve heard to date, regardless of technology or circuit topology.”
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Hi-Fi+ reviews the DAC2.7 and REF600M
[A]fter twenty-fve years of audio excellence [Bel Canto] needs to be on the list of “must audition” companies.
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Stereophile: REF600M Review
“Bel Canto Design’s e.One REF600M amplifier packs a huge amount of power into a small package, and offers impressively low levels of distortion and noise.” – John Atkinson
“[The REF600M is] so satisfying that is encouraged, even demanded, listening with complete engagement.” – Kalman Rubinson
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DAC2.7 Reviewed in Australian Hi-Fi
“Bel Canto are all about…solid, no-nonsense electronic and mechanical engineering. It’s superbly engineered, inside and out…”
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Australian Hi Fi reviews the REF600M
“Enormously powerful, very quiet and with a sound quality so tonally accurate that it’s a constant delight to the ears… an outstandingly good power amplifier.”
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SoundStage! Hi-Fi raves about the REF600M
Roger Kanno writes: “Several Bel Canto Design amplifiers have come through my system over the years, but the e.One REF600M is the best sounding of all, … In fact, it’s one of the best-sounding amps from any company that I’ve had in my system”
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Black on the Cover of Stereophile
Michael Fremer of Stereophile: “Black by Bel Canto Design is a breakthrough product and, because of its sound quality , the most intriguing one I’ve reviewed.”
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Audiophilia.com
Anthony Kershaw reviews the BLACK system: “Black is a staggeringly well made audio system designed with care and with a serious eye on the digital horizon.”
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hifitest.de
German review of BLACK
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Audiophile Magazine (FR) reviews Black
Joël Chevassus reviews BLACK : “For absolute audio performance achieved, it is already impossible not to give my very highest recommendation to the Bel Canto Black. Whilst winter may be coming, Black rules!”
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Canada HiFi: Angie’s Audio Corner
“When a music system reproduces audio with such a quiet background and accuracy, the end product is simply music nirvana.”
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Stereophile: Bel Canto Looks Good in Black
John Atkinson’s RMAF 2013 Report: “I was impressed.”
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Confessions of a Part-Time Audiophile
Kirsten Brodbeck-Kenney checks out Black at Rocky Mountain Audio Fest 2013
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SoundStage RMAF 2013 Review
Doug Schneider from SoundStage reviews his experience of Black at the 2013 Rocky Mountain Audio Fest.
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Review Archive: DAC3.5VB MKII
Archived reviews of the DAC3.5VB MKII, predecessor of the DAC3.7
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Review Archive: DAC2.5
Archived reviews of the DAC2.5, predecessor of the DAC2.7
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Review Archive: DAC1.5
Read what reviewers were saying about the DAC1.5, the predecessor of the DAC1.7