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Sunday, February 23, 2014:  The meeting will be hosted by Brian Walsh of Essential Audio for the grand opening of his remodeled facilities. It will showcase his new, large second floor demonstration room

Brian Walsh of Essential Audio in Barrington hosted the February, 2014 Chicago Audio Society meeting for the grand opening of its remodeled facilities, which included a large second floor demonstration room. The meeting featured a Bricasti Design M1 DAC and the Aurender reference Music Servers, including the flagship W20 and the new X100L. Brian Zolner, president of Bricasti Design, was on hand to present his company's equipment and to answer questions. Additional equipment featured included AMR, Atma-Sphere, Kuzma and Sound Lab..  Essential Audio's information is:

                                                                                      715 Braeside Place
                                                                                     Barrington, IL 60010
                                                                                           (773) 809-4434

EQUIPMENT

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The Bricasti Design M1 USB Digital to Analog Converter

The M1 digital to analog converter is a dual mono design; there are two completely isolated channels, each with its own dedicated linear power supply, D/A converter, DDS clocking, and analog circuitry.

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What reviewers are saying about the Bricasti Design M1 DAC:

"The M1 is one of the best DACs available on the market at any price."

− Ed Momkus / Constantine Soo's Dagogo
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We listened to music stored on the Aurender Flagship W20 and new X100 Reference Music Servers.

Designed to be used with high performance digital-to-analog converters, the

Aurender W20 is one of the few Music Players to support external word clocks used in recording studios, and dual-wire mode used by many reference digital-to-analog converters to separate transmission of left and right channels for better fidelity.
With 12TB of (6TBx2) internal hard disk drives and one 240GB solid-state drive cache for playback, the W20 is the perfect solution for even the most extensive high resolution music collections.


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The Aurender X100 digital music player supports  DSD (DSF, DFF), WAV, FLAC, ALAC, APE, AIFF, M4A and other major formats at native bit and sampling rates. 

Equipped with a clean USB digital audio output, Ethernet port, terabytes of internal storage, 120GB solid-state drive for cached playback, the X100 is the ideal solution for playing and storing high resolution digital music collections for those who own quality USB DACs.



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