Lewis CaliburnVolumio, a company dedicated to audio and design quality, has announced the launch of the Preciso – a high precision Dual Mono DAC. Requested by audiophiles and discerning listeners, the Preciso maximises audio integrity without excess.
Volumio has listened and engaged with users of its suite of products to understand the features they would look for in a DAC. The response is the Roon-tested Preciso DAC.
Michelangelo Guarise, Founder and CEO of Volumio, who spearheads a dedicated team of creative minds, engineers, music enthusiasts and audiophiles, comments, “We are incredibly excited to welcome Preciso to our portfolio. It marks a significant milestone as our first product that isn’t a streamer. We’ve poured hundreds of hours into designing, listening and perfecting it. Preciso embodies everything we’ve learned at Volumio in crafting award-winning digital audio players, and is now ready to offer exceptional sound quality, staying true to our commitment to accessible high-end audio.”
A key feature of the Preciso DAC are its hyper-symmetrical dual mono DACs. Dual ESS ES9039Q2M is perfectly mirrored, facilitating isolated circuits for absolute channel separation, lowest crosstalk and optimisation of the DACs signal path for an extremely wide soundstage and detailed reproduction.
Independent power regulation for analogue and digital paths ensures a noise-free signal without relying on external PSU upgrades, while precision MEMS clock, premium OPAMPs, SMD design for ultra-low interference and highest stability and an ASIC USB interface were chosen to maximise audio integrity without excess.
Unlike single-chip implementations, Preciso eliminates inter-channel crosstalk, resulting in a dramatically wider and more accurate soundstage, says the manufacturer.
A complete separation of left and right channels ensures clear imaging and a fully three-dimensional sonic landscape and an integrated dedicated USB audio controller—the same used in the RIVO+— reportedly ensures bit-perfect data transfer with ultra-low jitter.
Only the most linear and dynamic operational amplifiers are used in the analogue stage, while a single MEMS clock drives both DACs, ensuring timing and coherence.
The Preciso is priced at GBP £699, €799, USD $899 and AUD $1,399 and is available to order from today.