Cambridge Audio Azur 851C Upsampling DAC, CD Player & Preamplifier - Black

[Music] the 851 si is the heart of your digital music system in essence this one box is a high-end digital to analog converter or DAC a high-end CD player and also a high-end digital preamplifier a hub for all of your digital music first and foremost it's the best DAC that we've ever made a DAC converts the digital signal from devices such as laptops networked players TVs etc basically anything with the digital output into the high quality analog signal that's required by your amplifier the problem is that these digital source devices have been designed primarily to perform their core function for example being a laptop computer so often they haven't been designed with audio performance in mind and this becomes an afterthought this means that the resulting audio performance is very poor so the 851 CE allows you to bypass these poor quality internal DAX and instead it performs the high-q