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CYRUS SOUNDKEY

One often sees Kickstarter appeals to create new products. But how often do you see the resulting product on retail shelves? One such is the Cyrus soundkey, a tiny little DAC and headphone amp, designed to give you decent sound from smart phones. Cyrus is no start-up, of course, rather an established UK hi-fi company of renown. So while its Kickstarter goal was £50,000, it ended up receiving pledges of nearly £80,000. And now we have the Cyrus soundkey in our hands.

EQUIPMENT

Well, not so much in our hands as plugged into a shiny new Google Pixel 2 phone. The phone is using an app which is drawing FLAC music wirelessly from our network server and feeding it digitally to the DAC, which is decoding it and

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