Rocky Mt 2007: Vekian Assaults DAC Technology
October 18th, 2007 — By The Absolute Sound
By Neil Gader
In addition to producing some fine cabling Jim Aud of Purist Audio informed me that for the past five years he’d been working on an all out assault on the state-of-the-art in DAC technology.
I followed him over to ponder the results and, boy he wasn’t kidding. It’s a beaut’.
Called the Vekian from Aud’s Stahl-Tek division, it’s a media server ready (short hand for offering a USB digital input), fifty-pound, black chrome hunk of a DAC.
It’s chassis boast superb isolation and dampening for the dual, multichannel 24-bit hybrid DAC per side. It will support sampling rates up to 192kHz and has built in upsampling.
It offers a full array of inputs and supports either XLR or RCA outputs. Apparently that’s not all Aud has in mind. He is working on a full function preamp version of the Vekian that he hopes to unveil in late ’08. A price however has not been determined. Rocky Mountain Audiofest 2007 news continues here.
