Well, first impressions:
I might be wrong but from the video it looks like the new units are full width. So the bottom box is huge. @keiserrg will feel right at home!. Actually, looking at the rear panel shot from the video I am now thinking these are neither full-width nor half width, but somewhere in between. So maybe the bottom unit isn’t actually that huge.- That bottom unit also looks modular (from the rear shot)
- All the boxes have IECs which either means that they don’t have external power supplies or that these are optional
- There is a distinct lack of socketry on those rear panels. It looks like finally dCS has broken with the dual AES past. Yay!
- Presumably then Actus is the new proprietary interconnect alluded to in the patent application? Each of the units would appear to have at least one such socket.
- Two interesting things about the second and third boxes from the bottom. 1. Their front panels are mirror images of each other, supporting the notion they may be L and R DAC modules. However both would appear to have two XLRs and two RCAs, presumably then these are dual outputs rather than L and R channels?
- Seems we were right about the DAC/UI having design cues from the Lina.
- Only five boxes so is there a transport still to come??
Exciting stuff!