Hello everyone,
Al Clark of
Danville Signal would be another candidate.
At
Danville Signal, they have been already producing/marketing
dspNexus 2/8, 2-in 8-out onebox DSP/EQ multichannel DAC capable of up to 384k in all of the 8 channels, using the excellent AKK DAC processor.
As shared in
my post here and
here, recently I had nice e-mail communication with Al Clark of Danville Signal, and I intensively discussed with him on their new
dspNexsus 2/16 which will be hopefully available by the end of this year.
He said that for
dspNexus 2/16, they will use two of ES9028PRO or ES9038PRO since AKK DAC processors are currently unavailable after the catastrophic fire accident at AKK's Oita Factory on October 20, 2020, in Oita, Japan. (This is just fine for me, since I am currently using Okto DAC8PRO with ES9028 in it.)
He also informed me that in the coming
dspNexus 2/16, of course all of the 16 channels are fully in sync controlled by two of the synced XMOS and their excellent firmware.
These clearly mean that Al Clark and Danville Signal would be highly capable of developing
"2-in 16-out fully in-sync simple and excellent mulitichannel DAC in onebox".
As you understand, the coming Danville's
dspNexus 2/16 will look like onebox alternative for the very expensive Trinnov Altitude 32; we (at least myself), however, do not need all of the DSP/EQ functions, and we/I need only the fully sync "2-in 16-out" (or "2-in 12-out") excellent multichannel DAC unit.
I assume that it should be highly worthwhile if OP
@B&WTube could also contact with Al Clark of Danville Signal for your (our) serious demands for such simle multichannel DAC unit (all XLR balanced I/O, I hope) referring this nice thread. I do hope the possible DAC unit would have functionality of synchronization between two of them (by common outer clock unit, or by AES/EBU sync mechanism).
Al Clark has
nice "Talk to US" web page, and he always responds very quickly and intensively.