Product Reviews
What the Press & Media say
Et Sona
Hifi Audio Website (in Spanish)
DAC204
The attributes of the Weiss DAC204 by far exceed what we can expect from its modest presentation. Its ability to translate zeros and ones into high-quality music with such pleasant and wide presentation makes it, for me, a reference equipment in this price range.
Maverick Hi-Fi Forum
High-End HiFi Forum
DAC204
I think it is fair to say that this little box provided the best digital music I have heard in my system under eight thousand pounds to date. Despite its price it is hard for me to think of this as anything other than a bargain.
Stereophile
Hifi Audio Magazine
HELIOS
Throughout the changes of amplifier and loudspeakers, the Helios echoed the DAC502’s extraordinary clarity but with an enhanced sense of involvement with the music.
Part-Time Audiophile
Hifi Audio Website
HELIOS
The Weiss Helios is amongst the best digital converters I’ve heard, and it deserves my highest recommendation for those looking for a high-end statement DAC at any price.
WaveTheory
High-End HiFi YouTube Channel
DAC204
The sound stage is pretty wide and expansive; the lateral imaging and separation is very good and the depth and layering is also solid. This is probably the best DSD to PCM conversion I have heard.
The Panic Room
Award-Winning Mixing/Mastering Studio
DS1-MK3
One of the most iconic digital processors in the world of mastering. Couldn’t have wished for a more epic Christmas present to install in the studio.
HiFi Knights
Hifi Audio Website
HELIOS
The high resolution of the tested DAC allowed it to present tonnes of information on every sound source, even those placed further away from me.
VirtualHiFi
High-End HiFi YouTube Channel
DAC204
“The sound is fantastic. It’s big, bold, dynamic, engaging, and has excellent sound stage and dynamics.”
SoundStage Australia
Hifi Audio Website
HELIOS
The HELIOS is beautifully balanced across all frequencies and with all genres of music.
Steve Huff Photo & Hifi
High-End Hi-Fi Reviewer
DAC204
“A $3000 DAC that sounds like a $10,000 DAC. Amazing sound.”
Resolution
Audio Production Magazine
DS1-MK3
A revolutionary hardware tool — the ultimate intersection of analogue and digital greatness. It has been raved about for years and is the standard to which all digital mastering plugins and digital hardware are compared. I don’t know a single established mastering engineer who hasn’t owned one of these.
Positive Feedback
High-end hi-fi magazine
DAC502
One of the best D/A converters you can get. An amazing depth of sound. The digital tonal correction will help many rooms, and there is a very good headphone amplifier on board.
Sound On Sound
Audio Production Magazine
A1
A superbly well-engineered and exceptionally well-performing 500-series mic preamp with an unusual integrated de‑esser combining digital control of an all-analogue signal path. Expensive, but very impressive.
Resolution Magazine
Audio Production Magazine
A1
The A1 is a very accomplished performer. It more than holds its own against pretty much anything in the 500-series sector. Its secret weapon is the de-esser.
Pro Audio Review
Pro Audio Magazine
ADC2
The ADC2 is a sophisticated, audiophile-quality converter with a musical soul. Transparency and pristine sound are its hallmarks.
6Moons.com
Pro Audio Blog
DAC1
Can a pro audio DAC beat a hi-end consumer DAC? Yes! I refer you to the Weiss DAC1-MK2.
Studio Sound Magazine
Pro Audio Magazine
DAC1
There’s no question that the performance of both digital and analogue elements in the DAC1’s signal path warrants its description as a reference converter.
Alpha Audio
Hifi Audio Website
DAC501
If you say the Weiss DAC501 is a D/A converter, you are short selling this device. It’s much more than that – it’s a streamer, a headphone amplifier, a preamplifier and DAC…. In short, it’s a bizarrely versatile device
Hifi +
Hifi Audio Magazine
DAC501
The hardware platform is excellent, with very detailed and extraordinarily even-handed sound quality. The headphone amplifier in particular is extremely detailed and capable of driving even difficult headphones.
Hifi Knights
Hifi Audio Website
DAC501
The performance was amazingly consistent in terms of lack of coloration, it was also very resolving, dynamic, effortless and open. The presentation was remarkably rich with details, textures and subtleties.
Hifi News
Hifi Audio Magazine
DAC501
Weiss’s DAC501 shows great consistency of sound across all inputs and is an accomplished streamer too. Its headphone stage approaches the high standards of its line outputs. Build quality is excellent and the unit has super flexibility via its DSP options.
Soundstage! ULTRA
Hifi Audio Website
DAC501
I very much enjoyed my time with Weiss Engineering’s DAC501. Its price puts it in the range of my Meitner MA-1, but with the headphone amp features found in my Oppo HA-1. Add in its various DSP modes and it’s an easy recommendation.
Steve Huff Photography and HiFi
High-End Hi-Fi reviewer
DAC501
This is now my reference DAC and I am thrilled to have added it to my main system. This DAC makes sweet music and that’s all that matters.
Head-Fi TV
High-End Hifi Media
DAC502
A level of playback sophistication you’d be hard-pressed to find in any single package anywhere else at any price.
Australian Hifi
Hifi Audio Magazine
DAC502
…the Weiss DAC 502 delivered phenomenally good performance across all the tests performed by Newport Test Labs. Across nearly all parameters, the Weiss DAC 502 delivered the best performance I have seen from any DAC… period.
Fidelity Magazine
Hifi Audio Magazine
DAC502
Whenever world-renowned audio expert Daniel Weiss releases a new converter, sound connoisseurs are guaranteed a real treat. His DAC 502 is setting yet another benchmark for a new class of devices.
Hifi Advice
Hifi Audio Website
DAC502
The DAC502 is an absolute reviewer’s dream.
Stereophile
Hifi Audio Magazine
DAC502
The Weiss DAC502 retreives more information from the digits than any other DAC I have auditioned…
Gearwire
Audio YouTube Channel
DS1-MK3
As far as any gear in the studio, this is the one I can’t live without. It’s unbeatable. I haven’t heard anything else, be it analog or digital, that even comes close to this thing.
Zack Smith
Mastering engineer, Dustpan Music
DS1-MK3
Instantly with the DS-1 we heard something amazing. It’s a really transparent sound and with a world-class de-esser.
Pro Audio Review
Pro Audio Magazine
DS1-MK3
The sound of the DS1-MK2 is impeccable. It is the most transparent, refined, flexible and least ”digital-sounding” dynamics processor I have ever used…I use it on over 90 percent of my mastering projects.
Rob Fraboni
Effortless Masters
DNA1
Sorry, I haven’t gotten a chance to tell you sooner how much I like the DNA1. I would definitely like to buy one.
Gearwire
YouTube Channel
EQ1
It goes without saying that the thing sounds great, but the interface is fantastic! I can tell that it is going to be a real pleasure to work with. I didn’t realize how great the ergonomics were… I have been dreaming of your stuff for years, and suddenly I am in Weiss heaven!
Tape Op
Pro Audio Magazine
EQ1
Once you’ve worked with such a quality-made, over-the-top engineered digital processor, you can really see how one’s job can be made easier using such tools.
6Moons.com
Hifi Audio Website
INT202 AND INT203
This 202 series comprising the INT 202 FireWire interface, DAC 202 digital-analogue converter and ATT 202 passive attenuator represents Daniel Weiss’ latest thinking on how to make digital work well in the home environment.
Einsull
Hi-Fi Magazine
MAN301
By itself the MAN301 turns out to be a true Weiss: competent, absolutely neutral and highly transparent.
Teruhisa Onda
High-End Audio Writer
MAN301
I think the MAN301DSD will be an irreplaceable partner for the rest of my life.
Eric's Hi-Fi Blog
Hi-Fi Blog
MEDUS
Truly outstanding performance — highly recommended.
Hifi+
Hi-Fi Magazine
MEDUS
Whichever way you look at it, the Weiss Medus is a DAC to die for.
Gearwire
Pro Audio YouTube Channel
SARACON
I’ve done shoot-outs with a number of other sample-rate converters and it just blows them all away…there’s very few artifacts in the audio at all.
Tape Op
Pro Audio Magazine
SARACON
If you want one of the best sounding, fastest, batch-capable options, my recommendation is Weiss Saracon. Do some head-to-head tests in your studio; I’ll bet you agree.