A quick note: between Christmas and January 6. we experienced problems with our e-mail servers that unfortunately stayed undetected due to the holidays. If you waiting in vain for a reply but haven’t gotten one, please try again. Sorry for any inconvenience!
High Resolution Streaming Clients: Auralic Aries Mini and Bluesound Node 2
![](https://www.hifi-im-hinterhof.de/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/auralic-aries-mini-bluesound-node-2-hifi-im-hinterhof.jpg)
With faster data transfer rates, better coding methods and higher storage capacities, digital streaming music formats have developed in recent years as a serious alternative to traditional media playback and now exist for HiFi applications in a number of appropriate solutions. These include so-called streaming clients, for example, which serve as a bridge between an existing system and the digital world. We provide two devices in this category - Auralic Aries Mini and Blue Sound Node 2 - each with their different emphases.
Season’s Greetings from the Team
![](https://www.hifi-im-hinterhof.de/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/hifi-im-hinterhof-weihnachten-2015.png)
The title says it all: We would like to warmly wish all our customers, readers: Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year! In January, expect to find us still as always, your souce for lastest news, guides and recommendations around the topics Hi Fi, TV and home theatre.
Consumer Electronics: 2015 in Retrospect, 2016 a Preview.
![](https://www.hifi-im-hinterhof.de/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/hifi-im-hinterhof-technik-überblick-2015-2016.png)
We want to make the last item before Christmas and the New Year a small review of the technical development that took place in 2015 as well as an outlook for the year 2016. Many aspects that have taken up space in the past twelve months reporting on will be discussions that will probably continue to occupy us for a while yet. Now is a good chance to query the current state of affairs.
Cambridge CXU – More Than A Blu-ray Player
![](https://www.hifi-im-hinterhof.de/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/cambridge-cxu-hifi-im-hinterhof.jpg)
With the introduction of the Hi-Fi Segment of the CX series this Spring and the subsequent expansion of the product line to the two AV receivers CXR 120 and CXR 200 in Autumn, Cambridge Audio has already succeeded twice this year with the latest technology and remarkable sound qualities which pour into positive product concepts. In this spirit, now presented is the third and, for the time being, last match of the series, officially declared as a Blu-ray player with a "U" for "universal" in the name of Cambridge CXU suggests that there is still much more to discover.
The Dali Opticon Series in Our Showrooms
![](https://www.hifi-im-hinterhof.de/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/dali-opticon-hifi-im-hinterhof.jpg)
As the successor of the Ikon series from Danish loudspeaker manufacturer Dali introduced the new Opticon in summer of this year. From now on the technical and tonal advantages of the super-class series Epicon and Rubicon seems to have translated as well ass possible without compromising the its mid-price counterpart. Whether the Opticon speakers this task to do justice, we want to take this opportunity to check again.
Musical Fidelity MX-DAC: Compact DSD and PCM Converter
![](https://www.hifi-im-hinterhof.de/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/musical-fidelity-mx-dac-hifi-im-hinterhof.jpg)
This year's High End exhibition in Munich, the featured digital-analog converter Musical Fidelity DAC MX suceeded once again to win the benevolent attention of experts. We also liked the new digital specialist from Great Britain a lot, so we decided to introduce the Musical Fidelity MX-DAC here in even closer detail.
Presentation: Bowers & Wilkins 800 D3 Series (802 D3)
We would like to thank Ulf Soldan for the exciting presentation on B&W 800 D3 Series in general, and in particular the B&W 802 D3, at the Lange Nacht der Ohren 2015. In the following Geman language video contains a lot of information about the technology and how construction of new speaker emerged. Have fun!
LG OLED and Samsung SUHD in our Television showrooms!
In our latest video Stefan from our TV team gives a brief overview of our range of Samsung SUHD television and LG OLED TVs. Please not the video is only viewable in German!