Headphone happiness with the AURALIC ALTAIR G1

Camera: Olaf von Voss | Editor: Jana Dagdagan

The ALTAIR G1 is a headphone amplifier with network streamer and DAC. US$2699.

ALTAIR G1 preview:

AURALIC:

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Also seen in this video...

Jarvis standing desk:

Mytek Brooklyn Bridge:

Meze Empyrean:

MrSpeakers Aeon Flow Open:

Kii Three:

ELAC Navis ARB-51:

What is that thing on top of the hard drive?
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Playlists…

Spotify:

Tidal:

Qobuz:
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[jeffrogers]

As an Auralic Mini owner (thanks to John's review 3 years ago), I can attest to simple elegance of their Lightning DS software. Sure it's Apple only right now, but for a price of an iPad or iPod, you still come out quite a bit ahead of spending money on a Roon server/software license or using some other less competent UPnP software. I've tried the Roon software trial, and for me the 'free' Lightning DS is all I need to play my personal library (800 CDs ripped to FLAC on the Mini's internal SSD) and a TIDAL subscription. I do plan to upgrade to the Altair G1 and relegate the Mini to a secondary zone (den). As John stated, Auralic's multiple zone support is simple as well. Sadly, I wanted to purchase another Mini for multi-room, but they discontinued it. As I stated, for me the Auralic software is the tipping point for upgrading my main system to the new Altair G1. I'm a software engineer, so I appreciate Auralic's commitment to providing one great native interface as opposed to some form of one size fits all multiple platform interface. Thanks John for the review of the Altair and I liked the 'finger trick graphic' for supported interfaces. Keep up the good work, and your effort to provide professional level video reviews is outstanding.

[HowieHaigh]

That siren was the joke police coming for you! 👮🚨😂

[LOUDERthanU]

‘little drop of poison’ by Tom Waits is a great track - 1st heard it on the Shrek 2 soundtrack😎 i had the original Altair, the new box looks to be another very flexible & quality piece of kit. Great work Auralic

[rizalahmad]

Please include at least 1 ‘dad joke’ per video. Like it!

[Sampardhanani]

Good video John. Nice to see the review videos released back to back.
Lovely.

[Nephilim-]

John. Your videos are flawless. Amazing quality and of course, amazing insights from you.
Thanks man.

[vladimirdorta]

Your channel is one of my favorites, jokes and all!

[jeppemichaeljensen]

You did it again ! Good wibes, great edit, and good humor. Have a nice weekend

[Big_Ronnie_G]

Another cracking review. Honest and unbiased. Wish i could pluck up the courage to make the

[Subsonic-cden]

I would really like to see a comparison of this with the Lumin D2 - or really any review on any Lumin streamer/DAC's!

[Motoralist]

John‘s the Best👍 Keep it coming John we love your Rew‘s .
Mahalo

[johnathanbellette]

Awesome stuff! Top review as always. I hope to be plugging my Meze 99 Classics into one of these some day :)

[rforestier]

Very good review as always. I loved the playlist. I hope it is the norm to include one from now on. Thanks !!

[Chunksville]

A cracking review as always John, might give this a listen

[kenwuk]

Thanks, John. I was thinking about going for the Vega G1, but .. purely because of the price difference .. I ‘might’ go for this. ‘Game of Tones’, indeed! 😂

[pennfootball]

Add an SBooster power supply to the Mytek and you get better mid and low bass response and more dynamic range from high to low...the chips just run happier..the stock power suppl;y on the brooklyn is a bit cheap for pro gear applications. I run a DAC+ with SBooster...it takes 100-200 hours to break in and then its amazing. Then another trick is change the volume to analog instead of digital on tthe mytek and see which likes what song better...i ussually keep it on analog for my ZMF aeolus and on my dynaudio powered XEO 10 it likes digital volume.

[tomburke]

Your content is consistently interesting and useful. So why, with all the big name endorsement that you have, do you only have 210k subscribers?! It's a travesty.

[DonHamlin]

Thank you so much for the comparisons. The information is truly useful.

[ericfshook]

That dollop sound. More of that please.

[robbintories]

Quality review as think my savings are gonna take another hit!