SW1x VDT I Valve Digital Transport Player & Music Streamer

SW1X Audio Design™ VDT I

Performance Level 1

Valve Digital Transport Player & Music Streamer

VDT I – Valve Digital Transport is a radically different approach to a modern digital source. Designed to deliver an exceptionally analogue, musical, and organic sound, it combines minimal solid-state circuitry with the warmth and character of a carefully integrated valve.

Even the CPU (hardware and OS)- playback control part is reduced to an absolute minimum. This is done on purpose in order to have maximum musicality, highest possible quality of power supplies and to minimise all possible time domain distortions within the digital domain.

All our digital sources and music streamers are designed to be UPnP & DLNA ready- just connect & discover the device wirelessly on your network & control the playback of your music media via touch screen or another device. Last but not least, they are designed to be ideal partners to our DAC products, maximising their musicality and analogue character.

SW1X Audio Design™ VDT I Valve Digital Transport Player Features

• Discrete Transistor Master Clock
• Valve Output Stage for the SPDIF signal Output
• Discrete & independent Linear Power Supplies for CPU, Master Clock & Output Stages

Specially Selected and Harmonically Matched Component & Material Quality

• Minimum amount of SMD components
• All Capacitors, Resistors, Transformers & Chokes are of Highest Quality as used in our DACs and Amplifiers
• SW1X Audio Design™ M6 grain orient EI core Mains Transformers & Chokes (SHiB double C-core available as an option)
• Internally wired exclusively with SW1X Magnum, Genesis and Opus conductors of various geometry (single strand or Litz)
• Copper Foil in Oil Signal de-coupling Capacitors
• AB 1W non-magnetic Carbon film Resistors

Power Supply

• Powered by 2 x audio signal grade M6 EI core Mains Transformers: 1 x Master Clock & SPDIF Output and 1 x for the CPU
• Discrete Transistor, Shunt Voltage Regulated Low Voltage Power Supplies

Tube Compliment

• Output Stage 1 x E180F

Audio Playback

• Coaxial SPDIF Audio Output, PCM up to 192 kHz 24/32 bit
• AES/EBU Audio Output, PCM up to 192 kHz 24/32 bit
• USB Audio Output, PCM up to 768 kHz 32 bit

Inputs/Outputs

• 1 x Valve amplified SPDIF
• 1 x AES/EBU
• 1 x I2S
• 3 x USB 2.0
• 1 x RJ45 Gigabit Ethernet LAN
• 1 x HDMI (optional)

Supported Formats & Services

• Supported Formats WAV, FLAC, DSD, Alac, Aac, Vorbis, Cue, Mp3 and others
• UPNP DLNA Renderer with Open Home support
• Supported Services Airplay via Shairport Sync, Roon, Spotify & Spotify Connect, TIDAL & TIDAL Connect, QOBUZ, QOBUZ Connect

Optional Extra

Integrated SSD Storage starting from 128 GB (Subject to Stock Availability)

User Control Interface

• App or Web Browser