The DAC202 is a reference class Firewire D/A Converter with a IR remote control for volume control, absolute phase and input source selection.

Features of the DAC202:

Digital Inputs: AES/EBU or S/PDIF on 1 XLR, 1 RCA, 1 Toslink, Firewire

Digital Outputs: AES/EBU on 1 XLR, 1 RCA, Firewire

Main Analog Output: 2 stereo analog outputs, one on XLR one on RCA

Headphone output on 1/4" Jack

Level control main output: 4 coarse settings via relays (analog domain), fine setting via rotary encoder (digital domain). Level control can be defeated for the main output.

Level control headphone output:  4 coarse settings via relays (analog domain, independent from the settings in the main output), fine setting via rotary encoder (digital domain).

Wordsync input on BNC connector

Wordsync output on BNC connector

Front panel controls:

LCD display for display of sampling rate, input source, audio level, absolute phase, up-sampling filter type, various menu items

Rotary encoder with push switch

IR receiver

Standby LED

Headphone Jack socket

Special features:

Transparency check (allows to check the bit transparency of a playback chain)

Setting of the coarse output levels (analog domain), separate for the main output and the headphone output

Dual / single wire selection for 176.4 / 192 kHz sampling rate

"Insert Mode" allows to loop in a external digital audio device (e.g. a equalizer) via the AES/EBU I/O on the XLR connectors

Sampling rate setting on the WSYNC I/O connectors in dual wire mode

Display brightness

IR Remote control switches:

power on/off

volume up

volume down

input sources (4 switches for Firewire, XLR, RCA. Toslink)

DAC up-sampling filter type

mute

absolute phase

 

Sampling rates: 44.1 up to 192 khz / 24 Bits

The DAC202 also has a new D/A converter and new analog output stages

compared to former D/A Converter models. The D/A converter uses two converters per channel to gain in signal to noise ratio.