AURALiC ALTAIR Wireless Streaming DAC Preview

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ALTAIR is a beautiful-looking digital audio product from AURALiC that combines a high-end DAC with a wireless streaming solution.

To achieve the highest quality of digital sound reproduction, ALTAIR is equipped with a Femto Master Clock, full linear power supply, and four built-in filter modes for sound customization. The ALTAIR is also designed to be versatile, capable of processing virtually all digital input sources, including reading music stored on USB or hard drive. Moreover, it has the capability to play music wirelessly through Bluetooth or Wi-Fi and can be conveniently controlled through a smartphone or computer. At its retail price of $1899, no doubt this is an exciting product that could instantly modernize existing traditional music systems with its digital-processing capabilities.

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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.