The AQWO has a quirk or two, and its (optional extra) valve output mode didn't compare with its default solid state mode, but outside of these niggles, this CD player and DAC offers luxury-grade quality at a fraction of the price...
Build quality. The flexibility of inputs and outputs. SACD onboard. Great sound
All I can genuinely think of is its price which may be off-putting for some
The AQWO is a fine machine that sounds absolutely wonderful. It is accurate without being fatiguing on everything we threw at it other than poorly recorded music which it makes no excuses for – if you have a load of dodgy MP3s etc then this is not going t...