Essence HDACC DAC/Preamp The Essence HDACC For Hi Res Audio is coming to American Hi-Fi and we are selling it for the same price as the US! $ 699 USD (Canadian dollar price to be calculated at time of order) A Boxful of Digital Audio Ingenuity The Essence HDACC is an amazing digital-to-analog converter, but it’s much more than that. It’s also a versatile digital preamp with remote control and enough inputs to handle your analog and digital music sources: LP’s, tapes, disc players, network music players, smartphones, tablets, and PCs. What puts this DAC in a class by itself is it’s HDMI input, with analog output, so legacy analog audio systems can now play uncompressed Blu-ray Concerts, SACD, and Hi Res Downloads with all the dynamic range of the live performance, bit-for-bit identical to the original master recording. “The HDACC by Essence is one of the most versatile, fully featured DACs I’ve seen” Brent Butterworth. “The Essence HDACC is the ‘swiss army knife’ of DACs” John Darko, DAR Feb ‘1