Auralic Vega Silver DAC

Te only reason I am letting this gem go is I have exited the hobby. I bought a condominium and can't play my stereo.

Excerpt from review by John Atkinson of Stereophile magazine
I am tempted to declare that, at $3499, the Auralic Vega is a bargain. For just over 5% of the price of the dCS Vivaldi three-piece DAC, the Vega got remarkably close in sound quality, at least as far as I could tell without being able to do a direct comparison. (The Vivaldi returns to my system around the time this issue of Stereophile drops into your mailbox; I will report on that comparison in a Follow-Up review, as well as on using both without a preamp in the system.) And can the Auralic processor really be a bargain when, for 57% of the Vega's price, the remarkable Benchmark DAC2 HGC is available—which, while being limited to DSD64, offers two pairs of analog inputs and two headphone outputs? And at $2000, the NAD M51 is still one of the best-value PCM-only DACs I have heard.

You know what? For its sound quality alone, the Auralic Vega—okay, Mr. Wang, AURALiC VEGA—indeed is a bargain. It's digital and DSD done right!

Description: Remote-controlled, upsampling, stereo D/A processor with volume control. Digital inputs: 1 AES/EBU on XLR, 2 S/PDIF on coax, 1 S/PDIF on TosLink, 1 USB 2.0 on USB type B connector. Analog outputs: 1 pair balanced on XLRs, 1 pair unbalanced on RCAs. Compatible sample rates: 44.1–192kHz, AES/EBU, S/PDIF coaxial and TosLink; 44.1–384kHz, DSD64 (2.8224MHz), DSD128 (5.6448MHz), USB. Frequency response: 20Hz–20kHz, 0.1dB. Channel separation: not specified. Dynamic range: 130dB ref. 0dBFS, 20Hz–20kHz, A-weighted. THD+noise: <0.00015%, 20Hz–20kHz at 0dBFS. Jitter: not specified. Maximum output level: 4V single-ended, 4V balanced. Output impedance: 4.7 ohms balanced, 50 ohms unbalanced. Power consumption: 15W max. (<10W sleep, <2W standby).
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