Price: $28,000
Website: www.karanacoustics.com
Doug said: From its extraordinary build quality, to its noiseless operation and extremely high-resolution sound, to its stellar performance on the test bench, which reveals that what I heard can be largely if not entirely attributed to excellent engineering and execution (note that our measurements are done after listening), to its compatibility with the various power amps I hooked it up to, I have no criticism of the LINEb—other than wishing it offered finer volume adjustment than increments of 1dB.
Read the SoundStage! Hi-Fi review.
The gist: Solidly among the state of the art.