I also don't think it will be positioned at or above Reference in terms of performance. As Toga said, the bundling of multiple functions (DAC, phono stage) has never been conducive to best performance. (ARC usually goes the other way, spreading a pre-amp or phono stage from 1 into 2 boxes). They have also never made a Reference line integrated but there is one in this Galileo line. The interesting question to me is who is the target audience? And what will these cost?
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