In the beginning, Sony and Philips said, Let there be 120cm digital audio discs and one-box players to allow us to hear this marvel of modern technology. Audiophile companies then split the one-box players asunder into transport and DAC in separate boxes connected by a single cable. Then jitter was heard around the world, and it was a very bad thing. Soon there were third boxes to smite jitter a powerful blow. As digital audio aged it became wiser and grew to 24/96. But the world was puzzled by the change because in the new beginning there were only one-box players again. But soon the sun shone on separate 24/96 transports and DACs. And the world was happy again, until it realized that 24/96 was also plagued by jitter and suffered old 16/44.1 discs that sounded not as fine as the newest 24/96 discs were known to sound throughout the land.The Assemblage D2D-1 is the first 24/96 third box product that I’ve encountered. While de-jitter boxes for standard CD transports and DACs have been around for a while, nothing like the D2D-1 has existed for 24/96. In the old days, jitter reduction alone was enough functionality to get us to part with a moderate chunk of pocket change. Today, the D2D-1 entices us with jitter removal, sample-rate conversion, data-word interpolation and digital-format conversion -- all for about the same chunk of slightly inflated pocket change that the early 16/44.1 jitter-removal-only boxes cost.To use the D2D-1 in your system, the minimum requirement would be a separate 16/44.1 transport and 16/44.1 DAC. However, this configuration won’t let you use the D2D-1’s upsampling capability. To make the D2D-1 worthwhile, you really should have a 24/96 DAC. And to get the full measure of sonic bliss, having a 24/96 transport adds the last little bit of finesse to the sound. Let’s look at each feature of the D2D-1 before getting into the sonic performance.

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