Suceeding where most companies fail, it is not easy to pull of a competant double act like this never mind have one of the best DAC's and Preamplifiers money can buy into the bargain. In the past companies have had a good DAC with a poor preamplifier or even just a passive pre letting the side down. Some managed the flip side with good analogue electronics hampered by poor implementation of digital circuitry.

The boffins at Boulder fortunately have a knowledge of both in abundance ending up with a complete digital and analog preamplifier in a unique fully machined chassis.The four digital sources and four analog sources including phono benefit from Boulder's new 983 micro gain stage and the superb solid state volume attenuator used in our 2000 Series Preamplifier.

"It's all about the good side of descriptors like "clarity," "transparency," "speed," "fast" leading-edge transients launched with staggering detail—every nook and cranny" -

STEREOPHILE - Jonathan Scull, December, 2001

BOULDER 1012 DAC PRE DETAILS

The 1012 is a very unique product because it combines a full featured preamplifier with a high resolution digital to analog converter. Now in one chassis you can have all the signal management of CDs and LPs you need. This simple approach for all low-level functions minimizes cabling, resulting in further improved sonic clarity.

UpandoversamplingTM takes the confusion out of today's digital reproduction by performing all the sampling rate multiplication (the up) and low-pass filtering (the over) in one coherent process.

To achieve sixteen times UpandoversamplingTM of CDs, and the 32-bit eigenfilter interpolation, an expensive, powerful, one gigaflop DSP engine was required.

Boulder has the only true 24 bit digital filter because all false imaging in the audio band is rejected by at least 144 dB.

Whether your favorite source is analog or digital, the Boulder 1012 DAC Preamplifier delivers every musical note perfectly.

"From any aspect, the Boulder 1012 is almost akin to a feat of magic. It sounds great through its own very special high-speed DACs, and sounds clear, transparent, and colorful through its line-level inputs as well. Find a way to feed it low-jitter 24/96 data and it'll give your system a little more of that wonderfulness we're all searching for while working the Boulder's DACs to their bursting point.

If you've got the bucks, go for it. This is one very extraordinary component." - STEREOPHILE - Jonathan Scull, December, 2001

Zanden 3000 Pre The Zanden products are unfailingly natural and universally impressive (in the true musical sense of the term). Music has the unfettered, engaging quality, the ease of access and emotional impact of a live event.- Hi-Fi + issue 43 3000 Pre & 9500 MkIII mono's

Einstein The Tube (preamplifier) For Roland Kraft of Image and Holger Barkse of Stereo (two popular German audio magazines), ‘The Tube’ combined the very best sonics and most flawless measurements ever encountered.

The image hifi Mellennium Award in Gold in the category Preamplifiere is presented to Einstein Audio Elektronik for "TheTube"

Connoisseur 4-2L SE (Line stage)The sound from the Lyra was breathtaking. Such precision had the reviewers never heard before. Voices were extremely natural sounding. Also, the treble was produced with exactness and it even cared for the smallest details, and it was easy to follow how cymbals died away.The huge soundstgae that it produced was also unique. - Translated Stereoplay Extract

Boulder 1010 Preamplifierit is with singular confidence that I can say I’ve never heard more satisfying electronics than the Boulder 1010 and 1060. When you add this to their unparalleled build quality and ergonomic thoughtfulness, what else could I ask for? So yeah, I bought them. - Ultra Audio, Jeff Fritz

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