Winner: Product of the Year Digital Source Component 2024

The Roon-Ready Helios is similar in appearance to the company’s 502 processor, which JA reviewed in 2020, but the Helios uses Weiss’s proprietary discrete operational amplifiers in the analog output stage.

JA noted the Helios echoed the DAC502’s extraordinary clarity but with an enhanced sense of involvement with the music. The measured performance was also superb.

Three decades ago, JA chaired a seminar at a show entitled ‘Accuracy or Musicality?’ Choosing a product that favored one or the other may have been necessary back them he wrote in the conclusion to his review, but in 2024, it isn’t necessary to choose: ‘The Weiss Helios shows you can have both’.

Stereophile Magazine, December 2024