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.

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