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The iFi Zen Dac Signature v.1 is a ‘universal DAC’ owing to its all-encompassing input options and it takes the DAC stage from the What Hi-Fi? 2021 Award-winning Zen DAC V2. The Zen One Signature’s digital engine is based around the Burr-Brown DAC chipset that iFi uses extensively, plus a...

The Altitudes will calibrate each sub separately. An alternative is using the active crossover function to set level and delay for each sub separately followed by a single Optimizer correction applied to all subs.

Here are a few that come to mind-- How much flexibility does the processor's bass management provide? What options are provided beyond the basic settings, including but not limited to filter types and slopes? How much flexibility is available for assigning channel outputs to speakers? For...