Headquartered in one of China's leading tech hubs – the city of Shenzhen – GUSTARD is a company with research and development at its core. Its goal is to provide music fans with high-performance audio products at affordable prices. GUSTARD is one of those names that has had a strong pull in the audiophile world and are known for their desktop audio solutions, with a particular focus on headphones. Their line-up of products primarily includes headphone amplifiers, DACs, clocks, and recently integrated streaming devices.

Gustard is one of the most secretive and mysterious audio equipment manufacturers out there. They don’t go flashy when it comes to designing the GUSTARD website, they aren’t very talkative on online forums and websites, but GUSTARD sure knows what they are doing when it comes to digital audio. They are known for utilising high-quality components like toroidal transformers, embedding dual DAC chips in a dual-mono configuration and equipping a fully discrete class-A output stage in their gear. GUSTARD assigns a considerable chunk of their expenses to R&D, and just in a few years, they have been able to release several successful products like the DAC-X16, U18, DAC-X18 and DAC-X26PRO.