No man left behind. This motto promises that wounded or dead, an army won't abandon any of its soldiers on the ground. If we replace man with customer and military with Italian company Aqua Hifi, hifi general Cristian Anelli has always worked to the same motto. In the face of constant flux, his battle plan centres doggedly on extreme modularity. It means that the various functionalities of his D/A converters spread across individual boards. As tech progresses, any of them can be upgraded. It's no longer the customer's investment left for dead. It's built-in obsolescence. With due apologies for such bloody imagery, given today's pricing of top DACs and how quickly this sector changes, anything that's not fully modular is really inexcusable.
