Burson Audio Conductor Wonderful Preamp/DAC/HP amp-New

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We are now selling the Burson Audio line of products. Burson makes extremely hi value state of the art products that have received glowing reviews from all over the world. All products are made in Australia.

The Burson Audio Conductor Headphone Amplifier is a reference class headphone amp, DAC, and preamp. When Burson introduced the HA-160D in 2010, it was met with initial skepticism. Some questioned Burson's approach of combining three main functions, DAC, Preamp and Headphone amp into a single enclosure. Many were certain that something had to give and one if not all of those functions must be secondary and hence compromised.

The chief editor of 6moons was the first to realize that such worries were unfounded and in fact, each of those three functions were world class and competitive with the single function machines in their individual categories, which were much larger in size and more expensive in price. Furthermore, without the need to cable or equipment match three separate components, the HA-160D put music enjoyment back squarely into focus. It was initially honored with a Blue Moon award with many other recognitions to follow. More importantly it was embraced by audiophiles as a benchmark performer of the time. Burson have now pushed their uncompromising 3 in 1 concept to a whole new level. And they have named it The Conductor.

Read the full review here:
http://www.6moons.com/audioreviews/burson10/1.html

Headfonia summed up with:
"looking at the overall package, for music listening, the Conductor earns my #1 recommendation"

Read the entire review at:
http://www.headfonia.com/powerhouse-burson-conductor/

At the heart of Burson's DAC is the ESS SABRE32 9018 Reference DAC chip. With patented 32-bit Hyper-stream DAC architecture and Time Domain Jitter Eliminator technology, the SABRE32 is one of the best and most expensive DAC chips in the world and is truly reference class.

While Burson is not the first, or only, company to use the impressive SABRE32, they are unique in this price range in refusing to use IC based building blocks anywhere in their circuitry. Instead, they aimed to unleash the full potential of this chip through the development of tailor designed circuitry. They did not even use their own award-winning discrete circuitry featured in the HA-160D. No, that circuitry was designed and optimized for another DAC chip. They started from scratch and developed a new circuit that is specific to the 9018 DAC chip.

The Conductor also features Burson Audio's well regarded Soloist Headphone Amplifier. They had to deploy another 35W customized transformer to ensure that the Soloist circuitry is independent and optimized at all times. This is to ensure that its performance is exactly the same as the standalone Soloist.

The Conductor is not your average headphone amp with an added preamp function. Burson did not simply solder a piece of wire from the headphone output jack to create an unrefined preamp. Instead the preamp output has been extracted from the voltage gain stage before the current gain section, to create a preamp that reflects the full potential of the FET output stage, and Burson's less is more philosophy. Both performance and versatility are uncompromising.

On the digital front, the Conductor features a 24bit/192khz Tenor TE8802 USB receiver working in Asynchronous Transfer Mode. It also accepts coaxial and Toslink inputs supporting 32bit/192khz audio files. On the analogue front, it accepts analogue input via RCA and outputs in 6.35mm headphone jack, line-level output (DAC) and variable output (preamp). With such versatility, the new conductor works perfectly with any audio system.

The DAC has an asynchronous 24 bit / 192K USB input as well as a 32 bit / 192k capable coaxial input. The preamp marries a hi current purely discrete Class A output stage with 3 stages of gain.

The Conductor competes with products selling for 2-3 times its $1850.00 selling price. With separates you could easily spend over $1000.00 in cables just to connect the 3 products that are included in the Conductor.

See the long list of features and specs at the bottom of the ad and then call me to discuss this superb product as well as all the other Burson products.

Read our AudiogoN #1 rated feedback and buy with confidence.

Call me at 770-667-5633 to discuss this excellent Preamp/DAC/HP amp.
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Burson Audio Conductor Features:
Fully discrete circuitry
Fully symmetrical FET input stage
Pure Class A operation
Quality components
ELNA Silmic 2
DALE military graded resistors
Low noise toroidal transformers
3 levels VOS output stage
Pre-Amp: 7 - 18db
Headphone Amp: 0.18W - 4W
Perfect control for any headphone and speaker system
24bit 192K USB Asynchronous Transfer USB Receiver
Tenor TE8802 chip set with dedicated low noise
Power supply
Low jitter clock
32bit ESS SABRE32 Reference DAC
Tailored FET Output Stage
Low Jitter Clock
Full Function Pre-amp & DAC
2 x line level RCA inputs
3 x digital inputs
Direct DAC line out
Variable Pre-amp out

Burson Audio Conductor Specifications:

Measurement
Input impedance: 36.5K Ohms
Frequency response: ± 1 dB 0 - 50Khz
Signal to noise ratio: >96dB
THD: 73dB
Output power: 4W at 16 Ohms
Input impedance: >8K Ohm 30 Ohm, 1W
Output impedance: 45W, internal, regulated power supply
DAC Specification
Channel Separation: 140 dB 1KHz, 130 dB 20KHz
THD+N: 0.0005% 1KHz, 0dBFS
COAX & Toslink / SPDIF : 32 bits / 44.1K, 48K, 88.2K, 96K, 176.4K, 192KHz
USB Specification
OS Requirement: Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Mac OS X
USB : 24 bits / 44.1K, 48K, 88.2K, 96K, 176.4K, 192KHz
Support up to 24bit 96Khz with 10ppm low jitter clock
Asynchronous Transfer Mode
Inputs
1 x USB Connection
1 x Coaxial RCA (Support up to 24bit 192Khz)
1 x Toslink / SPDIF (Support up to 24bit 192Khz)
2 x RCA line level input
Outputs
1 x headphone jacks 6.35mm
1 x RCA Pre-amp output
1 x RCA DAC direct line out
General
Weight: app. 6 kg
Color: silver anodized aluminum
Dimensions: 265 mm x 255 mm x 80 mm
Package content
1 x Conductor Head amp / Pre-amp / DAC
1 x Power cable
1 x RCA pair input cable
1 x RCA Coaxial cable
1 x USB cable
1 x User Manual (including 24 months warranty registration information)

Brands carried
Acoustic Zen, Audio Space tube electronics, Bob Carver tube amps & loudspeakers, Burson Audio, Cambridge Audio, Creek, Denon, DSPeaker, Emerald Physics loudspeakers, amplifiers & USB DAC's, Epos, Essence electrostatic speakers, Furutech ADL, Gallo speakers, Gini Systems LS3/5A speakers, Graham Slee, HifiMan headphones, Jolida, LSA amps and speakers, Marantz Reference, Micromega, Music Hall, Peachtree Audio, Project turntables, PS Audio, Pathos, PSB headphones, Quad, Rolls Bellari, Silverline Audio speakers, SONOS, Spatial Quantum Field cables, Spread Spectrum Technologies Ampzilla, WADIA, Wireworld, Wyred 4 Sound, Wywires

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