[RETIRE] tout-en-un Auralic Polaris

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(12-27-2018, 06:54 PM)Zephyr58 a écrit : baisse à 1.550 euros

cet  "lecteur réseau + convertisseur + ampli" vient de recevoir de Stereophile le "Editor’s Choice Components"



This is a little powerhouse of the super integrated genus, which is what I’ve started to referring to as a classification of amplifier that is designed to “do-it-all” and do it all very well. When I first heard the Polaris in my home I was impressed at the ease of set up using Auralic’s Lightning DS software application, less so the sound – initially. But there was plenty of other aspects that did impress: a hardware platform – the Tesla G1 – built around a high-performance “Quad-Core Cortex-A9 processor running at 1GHz,with 1GB DDR3 RAM and 4GB of storage… automatic updates [to] keep the Tesla G1 platform outfitted with the latest features…” Support up to 32-bit/384kHz for PCM and DSD256, Tri-Band Wi-fi, Ethernet, AES/EBU, Coaxial, Toslink, and USB digital inputs along with a 2Vrms Line Stage input and a Moving Magnet phono stage (36dB, 65mV) with RCA pre-amp outs, and 120 watts of output based on the Auralic Merak mono block power amps. Fast forward a couple weeks and as I was cooking dinner and listening to music through the Polaris and suddenly my spine did a hinky-jig because there was an opening, a disturbance, if you will, that seemed to hang in the very air itself between my speakers. The Polaris had suddenly and in the space of a few songs gone from a competent super integrated that I could stream tunes to via DS or Roon, to a living, breathing reproducer of music that had incredible tonal and timbral accuracy, macro and micro dynamic abilities of true noteworthiness, an open airy top end and an iron fist of control on bass. In conversation with Auralic’s President and CEO Xuanqian Wang regarding this less-than-subtle change in the entire tenor of the Polaris’ performance, he related to me that there are numerous parts (caps, resistors, etc.) in the circuit path that could take around 200 hours to break-in, hence my corporeal reaction. If you like the idea of spending money for a true high-fidelity experience that caters to your digital freak and gets analog done right for under $3,000 USD with tons of future-fi to go around, the Polaris should be on your list to audition.