Description
Vega S1
VEGA S1 offers multiple input choices, enabling you to use your preferred music playback software effortlessly. It is 100% compatible with OpenHome based control software (like BubbleUPnP and Linn Kazoo), and a certified RoonReady endpoint for optimized performance within your Roon ecosystem.
Enjoy the convenience of TIDAL Connect and Spotify Connect support, and experience seamless compatibility with Apple AirPlay 2 protocol. Elevate your music experience with the VEGA S1 – where choice meets premium audio performance.
G2.2 Inspired
The VEGA S1 inherits AURALiC’s innovative technologies from the high-end VEGA G2.2 Streaming DAC.
At its core lies AURALiC’s proprietary Fusion DAC, a groundbreaking innovation the seamlessly integrates the finest elements of discrete ladder and Delta-Sigma DAC designs.
In addition to this advanced DAC technology, VEGA S1 incorporates Direct Data Recording (DDR), Galvanic Isolation, Analog Volume Control and Analog Preamplifier features, ensuring a listening experience characterised by unmatched detail and precision.
Based on the values of choice, natural sound, and reliability, the AURALiC philosophy is a fundamental part of every product they design. Sonically, they engineer both software and hardware to ensure a neutral and natural sound, allowing you to tailor your musical taste through speaker choice and room setup.
Fusion DAC
The groundbreaking Fusion DAC design in VEGA S1 combines the finest elements of discrete ladder and Delta-Sigma DAC designs, creating a new standard in audio excellence.
This innovative approach involves modifying a high-performance, manufacturer DAC chip by bypassing most of its functions, such as PLL, digital filter, and oversampling circuits.
Instead, AURALiC deploys proprietary clock reconstruction, digital filter, and oversampling technologies, ensuring that only the precise switching network inside the DAC chip is used for the final digital-to-analog conversion stage.
The result is an extraordinary sound quality that elevates the listening experience to new heights.
Analogue Preamplifier
The VEGA S1 retains the successful analog preamplifier function from the VEGA G2.2. The ORFEO Class-A output modules ensure the balanced output is able to drive loads well below 600 Ohms with minimal performance degradation.
Users have the option to disable the preamplifier function through software and reduce the output level to 2V, allowing for seamless integration with external preamplifiers.
Analogue Volume Control
VEGA S1 incorporate a highly regarded true analog ladder resistor volume control, which is recognised as the superior method for achieving high-performance audio playback.
Unlike digital volume control, which accurately reduces the signal level but cannot address the noise floor, analog volume control reduces both the signal level and noise floor while preserving the system’s dynamic range.
By employing eight coil-latch relays, this volume control system consumes no power and emits no EMI noise when inactive, ensuring noise-free and distortion-free control. Once adjusted, the system remains electronically transparent, further enhancing the exceptional audio performance of the VEGA S1.
PureDAC Mode
PureDAC mode empowers the VEGA S1 to disable all streaming and network-related functions, dedicating all resources to digital signal processing and conversion tasks.
In this mode, the VEGA S1 utilizes Direct Data Recording technology to store music signals from any digital or USB input in the past hour to Tesla G3’s system memory, allowing users to replay music from any point at any time.
Features
- Huge range of supported streaming services.
- Dual 60fs Femto Clock.
- Galvanic Isolation.
- Tone & Filter Mode.
- ORFEO Class-A Module.
- Smart-IR Control.
- Dual Purer-Power.
- Fusion DAC.
- Analogue Preamplifier.
- Analogue Volume Control.
- PureDAC Mode.
Specifications
- Frequency Response: 20 – 20 KHz, +/- 0.1 dB
- THD+N: < 0.00012 % (XLR); < 0.00015 % (RCA), 20 Hz – 20 KHz at 0 dBFS
- Dynamic Range: 130 dB (XLR), 20 Hz – 20 KHz, A-weighted
- File Formats: Lossless AIFF, ALAC, APE, DIFF, DSF, FLAC, OGG, WAV and WV / Lossy AAC, MP3 and WMA
- Sample Rates: PCM 44.1 KHz to 384 KHz in 32Bit / DSD DSD64 (2.8224 MHz), DSD128 (5.6448 MHz), DSD256 (11.2896 MHz), DSD512 (22.57892 MHz)
- Control Software: AURALiC Lightning DS for iOS / for web browser (device setting only) / OpenHome compatible control software (BubbleUPnP, Kazoo) / Roon (Roon Core required separately).
- Digital Inputs: Coaxial, Toslink (2), USB Audio.
- Streaming Inputs: Network shared folder, USB Storage, USB CD Drive, UPnP/DLNA Media Server, Amazon Music Unlimited, HighResAudio, KKBOX, Qobuz Sublime+, Netease Music, TIDAL/TIDAL Connect, AirPlay, Spotify Connect, TuneIn, Internet Radio, Roon Ready.
- Balanced: XLR (6 V / 2 V user selectable, output impedance 5 ohm)
- Unbalanced: RCA (6 V / 2 V user selectable, output impedance 50 ohm)
- Wired Network: Gigabit Ethernet
- Power Consumption: Standby: <0.5 W / Sleep: <10 W / Playback: 30 W at max.
- Dimensions W x D x H: 20.7 x 29 x 8.5 cm
- Weight: 4.0 kg
- Finish: Anodized aluminium casework in matte black.
Included
- 1 x AURALiC VEGA S1 Streaming DAC.
- 1 x Power Cord.
- 1 x Quickstart Guide.
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