The digital heart of the Vivaldi system, our world-famous DAC decodes audio with astonishing focus. Featuring the latest generation dCS Ring DAC™ APEX, it delivers a performance unmatched in its realism, depth, and emotion

Key Features

• dCS Ring DAC APEX™ hardware further reduces distortion and improves linearity for enhanced musical performance
• Utilises the latest generation dCS Digital Processing Platform for state-of-the-art measured performance and unrivalled fidelity
• Designed for maximum flexibility by accepting audio data from a variety of digital sources
• Flexible output configuration can be optimised in systems with or without preamplifiers
• Comprehensive clocking architecture plus an auto-clocking mode used in the Vivaldi range improves ease-of-use and minimises jitter
• USB interface allows easy connection to a computer, accepting PCM data at up to 24/384 and DoP (DSD/64 or DSD/128 over PCM)

• The interface runs in asynchronous USB mode, making the DAC immune to jitter from noisy computer master clocks
• Improved power supplies give lower running temperature and superior tolerance to AC supply variations
• Multi-stage regulation ensures sensitive analogue circuitry is unaffected by digital interference
• Separate power circuits for the digital and analogue sections further enhance the purity of the power supply
• Aerospace-grade machined aluminium chassis fitted with tuned acoustic damping panels reduces magnetic effects and vibration
• Features a full MQA™ decoder. This MQA™ implementation is unique, as it is the first opportunity to enable a DAC which, by providing exact rendering to beyond 16x (768 kHz), matches the desired temporal response with very low modulation noise