Accurate conversion of music and sound from the digital world to the analog realm is the cornerstone of a top-quality system. For the discerning audiophile, we created our flagship digital-to-audio converter: the DAC-2. At the heart of the DAC-2 is the industry-leading ESS 9018 Reference Audio 32-DAC. Using the chip’s trademark ESS Time Domain Jitter Eliminator, the ESS 9018 utilizes an oversampling process that eliminates all of the clocking inconsistencies (jitter) found in a typical digital-to-analog conversion. The result is an information stream that’s cleaner from source to sound, free of artifacts. Combined with our proprietary discrete output stages, which optimize sonics, the DAC-2 delivers the absolute most accurate and musical sound.

Technical Specifications

• Typical THD+N 20-20kHz (A-weighted): <0.006%
• Frequency Response 20Hz-20kHz: ± 0.075db
• S/N Ratio: >115db
• Crosstalk: >98db
• Noise (A-weighted): < 7µV
• Noise: < 10µV
• Balanced Output Level: 5.2V (14.2db gain)
• Unbalanced Output Level: 2.6V (8.2db gain)
• Output Impedance: 100Ω
• Channel Tracking: < ± 0.50db