
Rotel is known for its functional, no-nonsense approach to hi-fi design. It doesn’t do gimmicks or prioritise style over performance. Never has and never wi… hold on. What’s this?
The new DX-3 headphone amplifier and DAC doesn’t resemble any Rotel product we’ve come across before. To our eyes, it is stylish, modern and features visual flourishes on the volume dial and casework sides that serve no other purpose than to make it look nice – very un-Rotel. Even the packaging looks more like something Apple would offer rather than the effective yet plain efforts most in this industry produce.