With the Fezz Equinox, this live 1971 performance, displayed Webb Telescope – level imaging, like the Milky Way with black holes and planets exploding between the speakers. Bass and treble came through with extra-clean transients and extraordinary low-level detail. Sun Ra’s face, body, and piano were precisely outlined and placed with certainty. Presence and physicality were four-star which is rare with streaming.

This was the sound and art moment that showed me what an extraordinary value this processor brings to home audio. It costs $2,995, and it played people’s music like a five-figure processor.

Playing Karnatak music, the level and intensity of vital energy was completely as it should be: mesmeric. With electrifying, high-speed momentum that through the Equinox sounded as finely and expressively rendered as I’ve ever heard on a dynamic – not electrostatic – loudspeaker.

Fezz Audio’s Equinox DAC is the kind of forward thinking product I am beginning to see as digital audio’s next wave: a price-conscious reimagining of what an audiophile converter needs to be, built to last and holds its value, simple to use, fashionable looking, delivering 80% (or more) of the sound quality you’d get with a five-figure DAC.

Herb Reichert, Stereophile June 2025