Auralic Altair

[SwissBear]

A new option in the field of network streaming, with seemingly a very low jitter clock included in the box, and streaming capabilities for Qobuz and Tidal, and a DAC for the same price. Not to mention Roonready .
With a very attractive price tag it seems.

http://www.auralic.com/en/

http://www.6moons.com/industryfeatures/auralic/1.html

http://www.digitalaudioreview.net/2016/0...aming-dac/

Definitely worth listening at next month's show in Munich

[Confused]

It would appear that this is likely to be somewhere between the Aries and the Vega with respect to sound quality. Has anyone ever tried a Vega with a Devialet?

Of course the big problem with any Auralic product above the Aries in the range, is that if you are using it with a Devialet, you are paying for DAC / Pre-amp hardware that you do not need.

[GuillaumeB]

It would appear that this is likely to be somewhere between the Aries and the Vega with respect to sound quality.  Has anyone ever tried a Vega with a Devialet?

Of course the big problem with any Auralic product above the Aries in the range, is that if you are using it with a Devialet, you are paying for DAC / Pre-amp hardware that you do not need.

Yes and let's face it the Aries wasn't exactly brilliant on SQ, although I concede things may have changed with firmware updates etc.

The DAC thing always causes a bit of cognitive disarray, having said that if the end result is good... then why not?

Guillaume

[Confused]

It would appear that this is likely to be somewhere between the Aries and the Vega with respect to sound quality.  Has anyone ever tried a Vega with a Devialet?

Of course the big problem with any Auralic product above the Aries in the range, is that if you are using it with a Devialet, you are paying for DAC / Pre-amp hardware that you do not need.

Yes and let's face it the Aries wasn't exactly brilliant on SQ, although I concede things may have changed with firmware updates etc.

The DAC thing always causes a bit of cognitive disarray, having said that if the end result is good... then why not?

Guillaume

It would appear that the Vega & Altair do not have a digital output?  So actually this is quite a big issue.  (unless I've misread the specs)

[SwissBear]

It would appear that the Vega & Altair do not have a digital output?  So actually this is quite a big issue.  (unless I've misread the specs)

Unfortunately, you look to be right. Quite a big issue as you say.

[Juerg123]

It would appear that the Vega & Altair do not have a digital output?  So actually this is quite a big issue.  (unless I've misread the specs)

Unfortunately, you look to be right. Quite a big issue as you say.

I sent a mail to the support about a digital output. In fact there is one. A USB port (DAC) which can be used as a digital output. So with that you can connect the Auralic Altair digitally to the Devialet. A little bit pointless for a streaming DAC.
On the other side it costs about the same as the Aries and is looks much better.