[ Back to the Future ? ; ]
April 13, 2013[ New Silk is now on the market !!! : ]
April 24, 2013
Hallo Everybody
Lukasz just announced on his fb page officially commercial launch of DSD for LampizatOr DACs, the project we had been patronizing from the first step and long waiting for it to final materialize. Now it’s done – 1st on the planet chip-less DSD implementation, as pure as it only can be is done. We are so happy to share it with the World . The Endless Holography is a key word for this – it have to be heard to be believed – none chip dac can compare to it
to quote the master himself:
HA !!! Finally – DSD done RIGHT !
I am very excited to have created my first DSD DAC and done it without chips. I designed a pure tube, zero solid state active decoder and filter that does DSD conversion without silicon. It is not easy to make but so satisfying. It takes all formats and file types and plays them with vinyl quality. It is for me a new era of digital. And in accordance with my LampizatOr principles I have glowing tubes in the DAC.
LampizatOr DSD DAC whitepaper
The DSD done right
In April 2013 we designed a DAC that converts DSD datastream (all types known) to analog and does it WITHOUT SILICON. We tried various chips – all kinds – some “DSD READY” some DSD through PCM and some real DSD.
As a chief designer I felt that Lampizator fame needs a DAC like no other. I created a converter that treats the DSD in pure analog domain and produces music in it’s virgin glory. Without any manipulation, digital processing, PCM conversion, delta sigma, or anything like that. We keep DSD in its purest native form and keep the sound with phase coherence, zero colorations or compression.
The sound is the purest copy of the original DSD recording we can think of.
The process is 100% free of active solid state components. Ony tube active filters are employed. At the end the signal is amplified by triodes again – in the way we always have done at LampizatOr.
I don’t follow the world developments in this field and I don’t have time to read internet forums but I guess this must be one of the first such pure tube DSD DACs worldwide.
In my design I used the FM radio principle for tuning into the datastream and extracting music modulation from the carrier waveform. The technology therefore is based on the grandmother’s radio with green magic eye.
The associated equipment is any computer – PC or MAC or Linux and ISO, DFF or DSF files. We also need a high quality USB cable that is “dsd-ready”.for example : (Lampizator USB in uor offer).
The DSD DAC will be available from Level 3 to 5.
Level SIX will be possible just with USB input ( restricted space inside )
Commercial availability – June 2013.
Retro-fit upgrades of existing DACS will be provided when time allows.
The DSD DAC will play also PCM material via USB and SPDIF.
