John
AURALiC have jumped into bed with Klutz Design to produce the Gemini 2000 and 1000. AURALiC refers to them as ‘headphone docks’ but the sculpted design promises considerably more than a stand and cable tidy for your ‘phones. Encased in the Swedish CanCans shell are 1) an SD Extended Capacity (SXDC) card reader, 2) a DXD/DSD-compliant DAC and 3) a Class A headphone amplifier. Model numeration refers to maximum mW headphone output with the Gemini 2000 employing a fully-balanced design.
The base of the Gemini is milled from brass and houses balanced (4-pin) and single-ended (quarter inch) headphone connectors, USB, SDXC card slot, phone jack input, ‘niceness’ volume control, input selector, power on/off and power socket. The base also handles heat dissipation – apparently it’s better than aluminium in this regard – as well as volume and sample rate display.
More vital statistics…
- 30 cm tall
- 3 kg
- hand-polished lacquer finish
- five colour options (black, white, red, yellow and blue)
- 20 Hz – 20 KHz frequency range
- max storage 2 TB
- THD: <0.001% for Gemini 2000 and <0.002% for Gemini 1000
The GEMINI 2000 and 1000 will be available from November with RRPs of US$1995 and US$995 respectively.
Further information: AURALiC / Addicted To Audio
