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RE: Auraliti & Berkeley Audio Alpha-1 DAC

You have a pretty complete picture of what it is. Its more of a Lotus 7 than a Bentley, stripped down for performance without a fancy touchscreen UI on the box. And we are trying to make a solution that is accessible to a larger audience. We will be adding more details to the web site as time permits. Orders before we start shipping with be at the $600 preship price.

Content can be on a USB drive/ USB stick or on a network server. We prefer Flac (metadata issues) and the difference we find between wave and flac is inaudible. Others may differ and the platform supports wave, flac, aiff and other formats you you can experiment.

We don't rip/transfer content in the box. Desktop/laptop PC's do that much better and are easier to use for editing the metadata and organizing the libraries.

You can use any MPD controller, we are focused on MPoD since it works pretty well and is easy to use. The sonic impact of having a laptop on your lap while listening should not be ignored either.

We are not supporting all of the MPD features since we feel some are not important or even useful for this audience. We are not positioning this as a replacement for a Squeezebox or Sonos for a distributed audio system or for internet radio. We are trying to do one thing well- play high resolution digital audio streams.

The planned server will also support Squeeze Center or Twonky UPNP/DLNA server so the same library can be available to other devices. That project is a few months off however.

Demian Martin
www.auraliti.com


Edits: 10/11/09
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