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AURALiC ALTAIR G1 Digital Audio Streamer/DAC Preview

About 4 years ago, I reviewed the original AURALiC ALTAIR, which was an audio streamer/DAC combo unit that could also function as a digital preamplifier.

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The ALTAIR managed to impress me with its ability to do all its functions well. In the ALTAIR G1, AURALiC has updated the design of the ALTAIR to include a new-look chassis that boasts a larger and much-improved display, a new Tesla G2 computing/processing platform, and a newer DAC chip. The new-look is more in line with the current design of the G1/G2 series of products. The ALTAIR G1 still maintains the functionalities of the original ALTAIR with improvements in CPU processing speed, memory cache size, and Wi-Fi technology. With such improvements, the ALTAIR G1 operates way snappier than the original ALTAIR in processing wireless streaming playback. Stay tuned for my report on this $2699 versatile product from AURALiC!

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AURALiC ALTAIR G1 – front side view

AURALiC ALTAIR G1 – rear side view

Yongki Go, Ph.D.

Yongki considers himself as an aerospace engineer by day and an audio/home-theater enthusiast by night/weekend. He earned his doctoral degree in aerospace engineering from MIT in 1999 and has pursued a career in academia before changing path to join the aerospace industry. He has been writing for SECRETS since its early years, but was on hiatus during the few years when he was living overseas. He has been actively writing for SECRETS again not long after his return to the US in 2012. Although his field of expertise is in aerospace control systems as exemplified by more than 80 technical articles in various aerospace-related journals and conferences, his passion has always been in hi-fi audio reproduction. It is this continued passion for audio that has kept him as a long-time member of the SECRETS team.