Meanwhile, over at the hi-fi system...

You can connect the Super Hub SHB 2 directly to your main audio system for playback, and with the supplied remote control you can navigate the player without having to get up and press its actual control dial. But how about keeping the whole Super Hub near your listening location for local control, and sending the music wirelessly to your main system? That’s possible thanks to the Super Hub’s inclusion of a 5GHz wireless transmitter, and the existence of the $2299 CMA Twelve receiver unit pictured above. This is a DAC, preamp and headphone amplifier — indeed it is Questyle’s flagship DAC/headphone amp, and its name celebrates the 12 years since the invention of the Current Mode Amplification with which it, previous flagships, and the preamplifier of the SuperHub have all been equipped. It has analogue inputs plus USB, coaxial, optical and AES/EBU digital inputs, and a preamplifier output for your power amplifier which can, as on the Super Hub, be switched to fixed output. It also has has three headphone outputs, including the risingly popular 4.4mm balanced headphone output.

Then there’s that 5GHz receiver, which can play from a remote Super Hub 2 entirely wirelessly. Why would you subject that lovely high-res audio output to a wireless connection? Because this is a dedicated wireless path (Questyle went as far as securing its own frequency from the FCC in the United States), and is capable of transmitting as high as DSD256 wirelessly. This adds an additional layer of versatility to a full system of Questyle ‘Master’ electronics. For more on the CMA Twelve, see: www.questyle.com/en/product/CMA-twelve