The Audio Note™
DAC5 Special and DAC5 Signature represent the current state of the
art in digital conversion and reproduction.
They make any other digital converters and many turntables sounding
decidedly mechanical, congested, stressed and colourless, hearing
is believing! Just witness the reviews.
The DAC5 has received unanimous praise from the reviewing press,
Stereophile's Peter van Willenswaard said in an article in April/May
1999, that the DAC5's "return to its roots" vision and
originality was remarkable, Peter also praised its sound quality
as truly outstanding.
Martin Colloms wrote in Hifi News & Record Review in February
2000 how the circuit despite its obvious technical short comings
shone beautifully sonically, "it is like you have to strain
less to listen to what goes on in the performance with the DAC5"
and graded it with the highest level for sound quality with 53 points!
Paul Messenger in Hifi Choice gave the DAC5 the best rating ever
for a DAC with 9 stars, and Hifi Review in HK, Mr. Robert Ray pronounced
the DAC5 the finest DAC he had ever heard, see the review section
for more information on this.
Specifications:
- Audio Note™ Quality Level Four performance
- 24/96 compatibility
- Exclusive 1xoversampling™ direct from disc™ digital
circuit
- Powerful analogue valve output stage with no feedback 5687 series
anode follower coupled to a 33:1 copper wired
- Audio Note™ in-house designed and made output transformer
- Transformer coupled output stage with ultra low output impedance
and balanced outputs via either XLR or Lemo connectors
- Seriously overdimentioned dual mono power supply, with one mains
transformer and two smoothing chokes per channel t
- One 6X5WGT HT rectifier valve for each channel of analogue stages
- Cerafine filter capacitors
- Ultra high quality Audio Note™ 1/2 and 1 watt tantalum
film resistors
- Closely matched copper wired Audio Note™ "magic"
I/V interface transformers to get best dynamic interface between
digital and analogue circuits
- Individually matched analogue filters, with silver coils and
super mumetal 250 core
- Audio Note™ silver wired analogue circuit trackless PCB,
wired by hand
- Non-magnetic aluminium chassis
- Customs designed, hand made Audio Note™ silver wired digital
input transformer
- Audio Note™ AN-Vx internal signal cabling
- Automatic de-emphasis circuit
About Audio Note's DAC Design Concept:
Audio Note produces some of the finest D/A converters in the market. 1x means
NO over sampling and no digital filtering, and once heard it is hard to deny
the utter superiority of this topology. The Audio NoteT 1x oversamplingT
Direct from DiscT conversion system allows you for the first time to hear
the undiluted, unaltered and uncontaminated digital signal, as it was recorded,
without the time smear, correction or other interference introduced by other
converters.
Direct from DiscT really does mean what it says! There always was more good
information stored on your discs than previously thought. |
