2014 International CES: the AURALiC Lightning streaming, billed as a breakthrough high-resolution streaming solution.
Well known in the modern audio technologies industry, AURALiC will introduce during the 2014
International CES its Lightning streaming
solution based on AURALiC's proprietary Tesla hardware platform.
For the new platform, Connectikpeople.co has captured a quad-core ARM
Coretex-A9 processor running at 1GHz, 2GB DDR3 onboard Memory, and dual-band
802.11ac Gigabit Wi-Fi infrastructure. It enables a 25,000 MIPS calculating
capability compared to 1,000 MIPS for AURALiC's previous platform, named
Sanctuary.
The AURALiC Lightning streaming
is billed as:
·
The first streaming solution
based on dual-band 802.11ac Gigabit Wi-Fi,
·
the first system able to
stream Direct Stream Digital (DSD), double-rate DSD and Digital eXtreme
Definition (DXD) wirelessly,
·
The first streaming solution
that allows digital audio signals to output though a USB host port to DACs,
like AURALiC’s VEGA Digital Audio Processor and more.
Connectikpeople.co recalls that, the AURALiC’s Lightning App can control all Lighting-powered hardware. Meaning
that it allows you, browse your music library on your network-attached storage
(NAS), to control the playback, and to set the hardware settings.
The Lightning App will be available on several platforms, such as Apple
iOS, Android, Windows PC, Mac OS X and even Linux. The Lightning Streaming
solution is compatible with other digital streaming control programs, such as
Kinsky and BubbleDS. It is also backwards compatible with legacy UPnP and DLNA
standards hardware and software.
ARIES will be available in May 2014 at suggested prices starting at $999
(MSRP).
About AURALiC
Based in Vancouver, Washington and Beijing, China, the newly incorporated
AURALIC AMERICAS and its parent company, AURALiC LIMITED, are passionately
committed to designing, engineering and manufacturing user-friendly audio
components that combine modern audio technologies with superior design and
functionality, providing music lovers with a new way of enjoying music. Its
growing family of products includes the GEMINI
Headphone Docks, the VEGA
Digital Audio Processor with Class-A preamplification, the 400-Watt MERAK Monoblock Power Amplifier, the TAURUS PRE Balanced Class–A Line Stage
Preamplifier and the TAURUS MK II
balanced Class-A headphone amplifier.