Dr Forsell Air Reference MkII DAC MK11

Air Reference DAC is one of Dr Forsells contribution to the world of Audio. It features a "1bit DAC" able to play Class A audio. It features 32/44,1/48khz conversion.

REVIEW from Audioreview, January 7, 2017
 

This DAC redefined my highest standards of Hi-fi listening - period.
Never before could I imagine it would be possible to extract soo much musical information from the CD format.
How could this be?
No audio d/a EVER has been designed so meticulously and so taken to the extreme as this one.
I have an engineering diploma and I am just chocked to see the amount of effort put into the creation of this unit - the PSU design, the components used, the design architecture, the PCB....
Everything, and I mean EVERYTHING, is taken to such an extreme level of sophistication, it is awe-inspiring.
And once you start playing music, it is apparent.... that which you have been missing all along.
I cannot believe this is a 30 year old unit.

This unit was compared to almost every high-end dac on the market:
Mark Levinson no 30.6,
Accuphase,
Apogee,
MSB,
California Audio Labs,
Naim Dac,
DCS,
Bryston,
Moon Audio,
PS Audio,
Audio Note Dac 4,
EAD,
Belcanto, and the list goes on an on...

The sound, so sensual, so extended and airy, so harmonically rich and balanced, so dynamic and yet so utterly effortless. So triode-like smooth and so thunderously powerful.....

No other DAC in my humble opinion has been able to even come close to sonic performance of this gem.

It is obvious: while the Forsell Air so effortlessly paints a tall, wide, deep, airy, detailed, sweet, extended
landscape of sound in front of you, the other competitors try so hard and yet accomplish nothing...