
We literally designed the Reference Series before it was possible to build it. The result is an immediacy and presence of music reproduction that is simply real. "The Alpha DAC Reference Series embodies everything we know about digital to analog conversion taken to an unprecedented level - a level that requires new design concepts and new components at the edge of what is possible.

It was too late to add the necessary circuitry, so they kludged up a conversion solution, and, obviously, say it is superior. I still say Berkeley got caught with their pants down when DSD took off right before they released the Reference DAC. The problem here is you can't compare whether the actual DSD file is better, the same, or worse than the PCM version.

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