I heard it in the PS Audio room, and spoke to Chris about it. It does use the latest Converse Digital core chip. As there was no other streamer there I can’t say how much better it sounds than anything else like that, but while I was listening to the FR-30 the music came from the AL, and then they popped over to the PST for other tunes. To me the “quality” of the sound didn’t seem to take a hit when it was coming from the AL, if that helps anybody.
Oh, Paul is hoping beta will be in about a month.