New Bricasti Design M12
 

Sitting in the Chicago airport killing time before my flight home. I am incredibly excited about this new product from Bricasti.
DSD playback is remarkable. For those of us that also like vinyl or analog tape it offers a analog input and ladder resistor volume control. More details to come. Really impressive stuff. They also have new firmware available for existing g owners.
Lots of exciting stuff.


http://www.audioaficionado.org/attac...3908163547.jpg

Yup, I'm giving serious thought to getting an M12 to go with my M28's. ;)

Yeah, for sure. We will definitely be pairing it with our M28s.
Were you here in Chicago Ivan? Would have loved a chance to say hello in person...

I couldn't make Chicago; my cup runneth over here in Cape Cod. :p

The M12 will be shipping in a few months, I ordered mine today. :)

Additional details on the new Bricasti M12 can be seen here.

What is the M12? A DAC preamp combo? Bricasti room sounded very good at Axpona with the M12.

Not really a DAC. It's a linestage with network connections and a direct DSD mode that will provide filtering necessary for direct DSD playback while bypassing the M1 DAC's delta sigma conversion. Explained better in the link I provided above.

This is a great looking and very good sounding piece. The Bricasti - Tidal room was one of my favorites. I visited the room at least three times - always playing good music with no chatter. People sat and listened. Very engaging. Kudos to Bricasti!

My understanding is that the M12 has inside an M1 board(s) and an analog board on top of it. The analog outputs of the M1 mono analog boards are feeding the upper analog board to use its analog attenuator. That is why in order to fit both the analog board and the M1 boards the M12 has to be taller.

I listened to it at Axpona and it sounds lovely in addition of how awesome it looks.

If somebody is using an analog source and also wants a great DAC like the M1 this is clearly the way to go.