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Oppo Sonica DAC Expected this fall

The Absolute Sound issue #267 has an ad on page 25 for the Oppo Sonica DAC due this fall. The DAC uses the ES038PRO 32-bit DAC chip and has many other features.  Control is via the Sonia App for iOS and Android.   The projected list price is $799.  Please see this link:

https://www.oppodigital.com/sonica-dac/

Does anyone have any additional information?
hgeifman

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bondmanp
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thanks, drewportland.  Please keep us posted.  I am eyeing the Sonica as a one-box upgrade to both my Squeezebox Touch and DAC (a Beresford DAC highly modded by a local modder).  I am especially interested in how it works with a music server over a home wifi network.  The price, for what you get, seems very reasonable, especially if it sounds as good as you suggest.
bondmanp
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Thanks, hikmer. Your comments are really helpful. The Sonica sounds promissing in terms of its sound quality. If you leave it on all the time, does the display time out and go dark? I’d be worried about burning it out if it was always lit up. Have you had a chance to see if the Sonica does gapless playback? I’d like to see if Oppo upgraded the software yet. I find listening to players without gapless really annoying.
bondmanp
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mofi - congrats!  Please post your impressions here when you have a chance.  I have blown my 2017 hifi budget already, so this is a 2018 purchase at the earliest for me. 


Without getting into a flame war, I need the gapless playback abaility.  That's just my personal preference.  My Squeezebox Touch does gapless with no issues.  I borrowed my mom's car for a while and the CD changer in it wasn't gapless.  It drove me nuts.  Hopefully, by the time I can afford the Sonica DAC, it will do gapless playback.

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