Presence, pleasure, and digital from France.

For those of us who struggle with enjoying digital sound at home - from anecdotal evidence, there are still more than a few of us around - the Totaldac d1-unity just may change your listening habits and enlarge your musical libraries. Except where noted, I listened to the d1-unity DAC and d1- streamer-sublime together. As you might imagine, these high-precision devices aren't cheap, and the Totaldac dl-unity DAC I've been listening to contains 100 of them (whereas the four-box d1-sublime DAC, which I heard and enjoyed in Munich, uses 600!). To see how much the d1-sublime-streamer was adding to this delightful illusion, I replaced it with my own streamer: the much less expensive and kludgier combination of the Sonore ultraRendu and Denafrips Iris digital-to-digital converter (the latter to enable an AES3 connection to the d1-unity). [Extracted from the article]