Nagra HD DAC and AKDesign

[microstrip]

Yesterday I could listen to one of the two existing prototypes of the forthcoming Nagra HD DAC. Unfortunately the conditions could not allow to get a meaningful idea of its performance, but as far as I know a french magazine has evaluated it and considered it impressive.

Searching about it I found it seems to use a DAC built by AKDesign, a company founded by Andreas Koch, and has 384/24 and DSD2 capability. As far as I remember Andreas Koch also designed the Playback Designs products. Do you know if they will share the same DAC's?
http://www.akdesigninc.com/

 

[Bruce B]

Andreas uses a FPGA in his units. Nothing off the shelf as far as I know!
Says he is an OEM designer, so I would gather that more of these would show up in other products.

 

[jussy1254]

desperately waiting for mine to arrive. apparently production has started
i heard the prototype at the nagra factory
very promissing

 

[jfrech]

6moons.com has a preview article about this Nagra DAC. Very interesting...

 

[agisthos]

It looks like Alex from APL Hi-Fi is using this DAC module for his latest product as well.