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Originally Posted by bart
Wow, is this the new integrated?
Or a DAC?
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Bart, according to Sterephile, "The MLife is based on the company's Momentum 200/wpc integrated amp, and adds built-in UPnP streaming, AirPlay, Bluetooth and the hot new streaming service at the show, Tidal. There is also a 5-inch LCD screen on the front panel for displaying streaming metadata (where the tone controls on the Momentum used to sit)
At $48k it's not cheap but does include some very nicely developed bespoke software to run the entire system from an iOS or Android tablet. At showtime, the demo had not fully integrated Tidal into the app, but it was able to control the MLife functions, as well as other streaming sources. Formats supported incude: DSD, WAV, FLAC, and PCM up to 24/192, as well as assorted lossy formats. Everything should be available in April this year, and more streaming services are planned such as Spotify, Deezer and Sirius XM.
The second product in the series will be a preamp/DAC/streamer version without the amplification, which the company's Francesco Rossi said should appear in 2016."