Audiolab isn’t short of experience when it comes to making DACs. The company’s first outboard digital-to-analogue converter was the 8000DAC of the 1990s, but it was 2011’s Audiolab M-DAC that really cemented its expertise in the sector. The now-discontinued M-DAC remains a favourite at What Hi-Fi? Towers, and was something of a mid-priced benchmark for the best part of a decade.
What has all of this got to do with the new Audio D7? Despite its smaller size and more modest price point, there are undeniable echoes of the M-DAC’s design template and well-judged feature set, and that’s a good thing.
