Auralic Altair Pre-Amplifier/Streamer/Internal Music Storage – $2,799

Description

This is a perfect single-box music source for your modern HiFi system. It combines a High-End DAC with world class wireless streaming solution. The 15 input sources including stream from Network Shared Folder, USB drive, Internal music storage (optional), uPnP/DLNA media server, TIDAL and Qobuzstreaming, Internet Radio, AirPlay, Bluetooth, Songcastand RoonReady. The rest of digital inputs are AES/EBU, Coaxial, Toslink, USB device to computer, 2 USB host for storage and external DAC.

ALTAIR is developed based on AURALiC’s award-winning VEGA Digital Audio Process and AURALiC’saward-winning Lightning Streaming Platform. Launched in 2014, Lightning Streaming is industry’s first streaming solution that supports Quad-Rate DSD, PCM up to 32Bit/384K through Wi-Fi network. Lightning Streaming offers several innovative and unique features such as Gapless Playback, On-Device Playlist, Memory Cache and Bit-Perfect Multi-Room functions. This on-going platform is maintained, and continually developed by AURALiC’sin-house software R&D team to ensure customers are regularly updated with new features through the product’s automatic software update system.

SPECIFICATIONS

Frequency Response
20 – 20KHz, +/- 0.1dB*

THD+N
<0.0003%, 20Hz-20KHz at 0dBFS

Dynamic Range
124dB, 20Hz-20KHz, A-weighted

Streaming Inputs
Network shared folder
USB Drive
Internal Music Storage**
uPnP/DLNA Media Server
TIDAL and Qobuz streaming
Internet Radio
AirPlay
Bluetooth
Songcast

Digital Inputs
1*AES/EBU
1*Coaxial
1*Toslink
1*USB device to computer
2*USB host to storage and DAC
1*RJ45 Gigabit Ethernet
1*802.11b/g/n/ac Tri-Band WiFi

Analog Outputs
1*Balanced XLR(output impedance 10ohm)
1*Single-ended RCA(output impedance 50ohm)
1*6.35mm headphone Jack (output impedance 5ohm)

Supported File Formats
AAC, AIFF, ALAC, APE, DIFF, DSF, FLAC,
MP3, OGG, WAV, WV and WMA

Supported Digital Formats
All PCM from 44.1KS/s to 384KS/s in 32Bit***
DSD64, DSD128, DSD256***

Output Voltage
4Vrms at 0dBFS (XLR)
2Vrms at 0dBFS (RCA)

Control Software
AURALiC Lightning DS for iOS
AURALiC RC-1 remote control
OpenHome compatible control software
uPnP compatible control software
Roon

Power Consumption
Sleep: <10W
Playback:  35W at max.

Dimension
13”W x 9”D x 2.6”H (33cm x 23cm x 6.5cm)

Weight
7.0 pounds (3.2kg)

Finishing
Matte Black / Matte Silver

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