Pulse Array technology is at the heart of this two-box transport and DAC system, which also offers the option of locking the transport to the clock in the DAC. But can it cut it when it comes to pure sound? Two boxes being better than one is often the way with serious audio components. With amplification, the scheme was in place from the earliest days of high-fidelity as a home pursuit, when large and hot-running power amps would be kept apart from the more accessible pre-amp or control unit. And the splitting of CD players into two started in the mid-1980s, to keep the mechanical/digital front-end apart from the digital-to-analogue converter. Lately we've seen a pilgrimage back to single-box components, with integrated amplifiers capable of producing hundreds of watts of power wrapped up in one chassis.
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