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Built around the idea that true hi-fi should be accessible to everyone, AURALiC enjoys a worldwide reputation for innovative digital and analog components that sound as great as they look. They build devices that help you explore digital streaming, discover new music, and share experiences with friends. AURALiC connects your home by delivering high-resolution music to every room, with a mobile control app that puts you in control.
Auralic design and build products that enhance the recorded musical experience all over the world. Digital sources that combine features and technology to provide our customers with accessible, high levels of sonic performance.
AURALiC brings together, in a trusted, mature ecosystem, advanced technologies in innovative ways for the purpose of listening to music at high levels of performance through the use of accessible, feature-packed award-winning products meant to be the cornerstone of any high-performance audio system.
Auralic products are all designed and developed with unrelenting attention to detail, exacting tolerances, and extreme precision. Independent of where a product is built, their passion for music, peerless expertise in electronics design, and a complete understanding of electrical engineering all govern their build process; which allows them to build and design world-class products in China. By caring as much as they do about sonic performance, they ensure you’ll enjoy a truly fulfilling musical experience.
Providing you with functionality found nowhere else in the world of high-performance audio is one of their primary goals. Auralic simply want to provide you with a world of unmatched choices when considering how you’ll be accessing and enjoying your music.
Auralic developed their own integrated platform in the form of Lightning OS, and over the years, they’ve continued to add exclusive features built to integrate your music-listening experience. Their cutting-edge hardware design, app-based control, nonstop updates, multifaceted support, and their comprehensive approach will make it possible for you to bring all your music to life.
Furthering the company’s reputation for developing high-performance source components, AURALiC has launched the ALTAIR G2.1, a comprehensively featured product, developed to account for both digital and analogue sources, delivering transformative, dynamic sound for the demanding high-performance audio enthusiast.
The ALTAIR model name has always been synonymous with that of extensive features and functionality. ALTAIR G2.1, however, marks a new chapter, as it’s the first time the ALTAIR concept has been incorporated and elevated into AURALiC’s world-renowned G2.1 series, combining the concepts of extensive features with that of top-quality performance.
ALTAIR G2.1, like its G1 counterpart, provides every function and feature from AURALiC, but in one compact, ultra-quiet box, in line with the G2.1 ethos.
As a G2.1 Series product, ALTAIR G2.1 has been developed with properties and features that ensure its performance is considered “next-level,” and allow for it to be used as a stand-alone preamplifier. Analog Volume Control onboard, similar to that on the VEGA G2.1 and based on a resistive ladder design, provides ultra-quiet signal, no matter the input. Class A Orfeo Output Modules allow for an ultra-low-noise and low-distortion signal in the analog domain. Altair G2.1 also houses two separate all-analog inputs, completely bypassing the digital structure and maintaining a pure analog signal from input to out. The first is a line-level analog input, including home theater bypass functionality, and the second is an in-house engineered moving-magnet phono stage for an elegant, direct, and quiet connection to a turntable.
With so many demands placed operationally upon the ALTAIR G2.1, the choice of processor was simple. ALTAIR G2.1 utilizes the most powerful of the Tesla platforms, which has more-than ample headroom to handle the challenging number of features and functions found in any AURALiC component. Finally, Dual Femto Second Clocks deliver precisely-timed signals, greatly reducing associated jitter. ALTAIR G2.1 can be controlled by Lightning DS (on Apple iOS devices), is also compatible with other OpenHome-based control software, and is Roon-ready as well. ALTAIR G2.1 can deliver a growing number of streaming services such as Qobuz, Tidal and Spotify Connect, with more to come soon.
ALTAIR G2.1’s physical construction, as with all G2.1 products, includes Unity Chassis II, a stealth-silent aluminum enclosure encapsulating a highly-effective copper sub- enclosure that protects the advanced internal electronics from outside interference, a massive aluminum base, and a six-spring suspension footer system, all resulting in a quiet, sublime, musical performance.
“Whether used as a streamer, a DAC with CD transport, playing back material stored on a hard drive, or spinning vinyl LPs, the Altair G2.1 sounded excellent – extremely clean and highly detailed, with outstanding clarity and definition, especially at lower frequencies. Bass had a weight and authority that was impressive, allowing you to hear the pitch of the notes clearly, while sounding immediate and articulate. Basically, it sounded like all the usual crud, hash, and noise had been removed, allowing you access to the music without unwanted additives”.
James Michael Hughes
for Stereonet
