New High end Pro-Ject dac/pre looks nice

[arcman]

Dual mono, balanced outputs plus HDMI

 

MSRP is a bit pricey, however, I’m sure you’ll be able to get cheaper

 

https://www.project-audio.com/en/product/pre-box-rs2-digital/

 

 

 

 

[arcman]

19 minutes ago, rickca said:

Their description sure mentions MQA a lot.  I guess someone convinced Pro-Ject that people care about it.

The popularity of the low priced s2 was much to do with MQA abilities at a low price. Im sure the same here competing with the likes of Mytek, Teac, etc. 

[arcman]

I wonder if John Westlake is involved with this unit. 

[arcman]

On 10/19/2019 at 9:16 AM, Miska said:

 

I'm pretty sure it was more about the performance and EISA award and nothing to do with MQA...

 

You can get similarly low priced MQA from many other places too, like iFi for example.

 

You are right about the S2's performance. However, at the time of it's release, low cost dacs (besides the Dragonfly dongle) were not available. The talk on all the audio forums was about the S2 being an affordable MQA Dac. Many upon many non MQA options in the price range

[arcman]

I meant to say above Low cost MQA dacs were not available.