In this age of €20’000 DACs that drive stock Sabre with fixed outputs, variable Jade does more for less. And she still splits her 24-bit converter register into two halves to process the less/least significant bits like the more significant bits (at higher amplitude for better linearity) before resetting the lower half to the proper lower values in the analog domain; a scheme Cees calls error forward correction.
What can one say……….?
In this age of €20’000 DACs that drive stock Sabre with fixed outputs, variable Jade does more for less. And she still splits her 24-bit converter register into two halves to process the less/least significant bits like the more significant bits (at higher amplitude for better linearity) before resetting the lower half to the proper lower values in the analog domain; a scheme Cees calls error forward correction.
Read the full story here and be surprised what Jade and Onyx can do for you…..
Another continuation of the review after burning in the DAC, the JADE By Metrum Acoustics by #MasterAudioPoet Srajan Ebaen
Digital to Analog Conversion with Digital Pre Amplification
SPECIFICATIONS
Balanced and volume controlled DAC
24 Bits Non Oversampling
Forward (FPGA) corrected
2 DAC'S per channel in differential mode
15 VA toroidal transformer
110/115V AC 220/230V AC 60/50Hz
Input 1x optical, 1x coaxial 1x BNC and USB
Output 1x RCA Stereo Pair Single ended 2Volt RMS
Output 1 x stereo pair XLR: 4 Volt RMS
Frequency Response 44.1 kHz sampling 1Hz – 20 khz -1 dB
Frequency Response 192 kHz sampling 1Hz – 65 kHz – 1 dB 192 and 384kHz (USB)
Distortion 0.006 % THD
Noise Floor -145 dB related to 2 Volt RMS
Output impedance RCA 100 Ohm, XLR 100 Ohm
Sampling rate Optical 44.1 – 96 kHz
Sampling rate Coax and AES/EBU: 44.1 -192 kHz
Sampling rate USB 44.1 – 384kHz
Dimensions 290 x 250 x 60 mm
Weight 3.1KG
LEARN MORE ABOUT JADE IN THE METRUM ACOUSTICS STORE