Peachtree Audio i-DAC
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Ships from | Roseville, CA, 95747 |
Ships to | United States |
Package dimensions | 14.0" × 14.0" × 8.0" (12.0 lbs.) |
Shipping carriers | UPS or FedEx |
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Original accessories | Remote Control, Box, Manual |
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I
am the original owner. It was housed in a smoke-free house. The unit is in pristine condition – there are no
scratches or nicks and it functions perfectly. And it is beautifully built.
This is truly a phenomenally sounding DAC. I used it as the primary DAC for
two-channel music listening of high-resolution music from HD Tracks. It sounds
very open, warm and detailed. It is very flexible and can be adjusted to suit
your tastes. Stereophile magazine gave it an “A” rating and considered it a
best buy.
Bring your preamplifier,
receiver or integrated amplifier into the computer age with the Peachtree Audio
iDac. The iDac is a stand-alone digital-to-analog converter featuring a PURE
DIGITAL iPod dock, which delivers the "1's and 0's" from your iPod
directly to the iDac's own internal DAC. The iDac has four additional
high-resolution digital inputs for your computer, Apple TV, cable box, Sonos or
any other digital source. You’ll hear the difference instantly and the
improvement is guaranteed to be nothing less than startling!
Special Digital to Analog
Converter
The heart of the iDac - what propels the iPod and other digital sources
to a new level - is our all new ESS 32 bit Sabre32 digital-to-analog converter.
It’s engineered for real-world sources that often deliver a high-jitter signal:
computers, iPods, cable boxes, Apple TV, Sonos, etc. Almost anything digital.
The iDac will also improve the digital output from most any standard CD or DVD
player. Most DACs on the market were developed to handle low-jitter signals,
the digital output of a good CD player, for example, but are poorly suited for
computer audio. When faced with the extremes of streaming, bad power supplies,
grounding issues and high jitter, they almost all fail to deliver maximum
performance.
Engineered for a difficult
environment
The iDac, on the other
hand, was developed with precisely these extremes in mind. Our design uses a
mutli-layer DAC board with over 450 components, a linear power supply and 11
regulated subpower supplies - preventing noise and distortion at every level.
The ESS Sabre32 DAC’s
patented jitter-reduction circuit re-clocks the digital signal before passing
it through a high-resolution 24bit/192kHz bit-perfect processor. Re-clocking is
needed for computers and most streaming or hard-drive based music servers
because most have high levels of jitter and/or noise. Noise, typically
associated with ground problems and switching power supplies, is eliminated by
transformer-coupling each digital input. The USB connection is galvanically
isolated, eliminating noise generated by your computer’s switching power supply
and greatly improving sound quality.
PURE DIGITAL iPod dock
Virtually all iPod docks today pass only the "analog" signal
from your iPod. Not so with the iDac! The iDac sends the digital "1's and
0's" from your iPod directly to its own internal high performance
DAC. That's why we call it PURE DIGITAL. And that's how your iPod -
plus the iDac - produces sound to rival a high-end audiophile CD player.
How do you like your sound?
The iDac's switchable
digital filters let you tailor your music to your taste! The
NOS/NAL button chooses between "no oversampling" (NOS) or "non-aliasing"
(NAL). Steep filter slopes don't sound particularly good. But a DAC using a
gentle filter slope - like the iDac - is susceptible to filtering aliasing
distortion. The iDac uses sample rates of 96kHz or 192kHz to partially
attenuate this aliasing. And Peachtree has developed software to eliminate
aliasing distortion in the sampling process. Many critical listeners will
prefer the sound of the NOS setting, even though the NAL setting measures
better. Let your ears guide you - there is no "wrong" setting! The
Hi-Bit/Lo-Bit switch configures the individual switching elements of the iDac's
Sabre32 DAC. Sonically, Hi-Bit moves voices forward a bit; Lo-Bit offers a more
laid back perspective. Choose Hi-Bit or Lo-Bit according to your listening
preferences.
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