09.-12. May




Review by Werner Ero
Despite the incessant flow of usually expensive digital
high-end products that pass my listening room regularly to be reviewed, it is often the relatively minor North Star Design, with their very good quality/price ratio, which has provided several times for true sensation in the Ero House.
In addition to the reliable, trouble-free functioning and the no-nonsense design with well-dosed Italian magnificence, this mainly
refers to the sound of Northstar. If I have to describe the digital products of NSD in a few words, I would say: fluent, engaging, lightly,
open and transparent with refined dynamic gradations
embedded in an above-average layered 3D
stage...

Group Test by hi-fi News
Hifinews - June 2012 issue. In a group test competing with seven outboard DAC's from Shanling, M2Tech, Rega, Wyred 4 Sound, Cambridge Audio, Musical Fidelity the North Star Essensio Plus was the winner.
Review by Werner Ero
The italian North Star Design has always been a master in presenting the right product at the right time and with the Essensio Plus Dac they did it again.
The Essensio Plus is an excellent high-end converter with a sound quality far beyond his price-class combined with a very usefull pre-amp function and headphone-amplifier.

presents the new DAC
03.-06. May

