HIGH END 2019

HIGH END 2019 ran in Munich from May 9th to 12th, the 38th consecutive staging of this German show which has become an essential part of the hi-fi calendar, and which again delivered everything from the small and handy to the gigantic and horny.

Let’s start small with (below), which launched the new SP2000 in its A&ultima range of high-res portables, the first using new flagship Asahi Kasei DACs (the AKM AK4499EQ). It’s capable of 32-bit/768kHz bit-to-bit playback of high resolution PCM audio and native playback of DSD512; the