Playback Designs
14 November 2025
Measuring 73 cm wide, 86 cm deep, and 34 cm tall, and weighing 137 kg, the Playback Designs SPA-8 stereo power amplifier can truly be described as an absolute beast. As part of the company's State-Of-The-Art Dream Series, the Playback Designs SPA-8 showcases what can be achieved when cost is no consideration and the design team is given free rein.
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11 April 2025
How often does it happen that I come across two products in a row that both truly amaze me? Indeed, very rarely. But just like the MPD-8 Dream DAC before it, the MPT-8 Dream Transport delivers an absolutely amazing performance.
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24 March 2025
Playback Designs MPD-8 Dream DAC
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Every once in a rare while, review components manage to amaze me, and this was the case with the Playback Designs components. The range is called Dream Series, and with very good reason!
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31 March 2023
Playback Designs MPD-6
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The Playback Designs MPD-6 is a discrete DAC with integrated analog volume control. As part of the Edelweiss series, the MPD-6 has its roots in the Dream series from which it borrows key technologies and combines these with new ones to create a more compact and cost-effective package.
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5 March 2023
Playback Designs MPS-X
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The concept behind the MPS-X Interface is to connect digital sources such as computers, servers, network-attached storage, internet streaming services, and any other digital sources to it rather than directly to the sensitive circuits of a DAC. The MPS-X is a full-fledged standalone Network Endpoint / Streamer compatible with streaming services such as Tidal, Qobuz, Deezer, and vTuner, as well as local storage solutions on a NAS via DLNA/UPnP, and importantly, Roon.
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