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501 MONO-AMP
520 PRE-AMP
530 INTEGRATED
541 SACD
560 D/A-CONVERTER590 USB-CONVERTER

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DESCRIPTIONTECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONSPICTURES

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[TD][h=2]Philosophy[/h]In many areas the 560 D/A-Converter is based on the same proven technical solutions used in the 745 SACD-Player. It also embodies the same principles in its design: top grade digital inter*faces for optimal reception of the music data, a super-precise master clock generator to avoid jitter, intelligent digital signal processing with over*sampling technology, and analogue output stages of top end pre*amplifier quality.
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[TD][h=2]Design[/h]As with its Series 7 sibling the 560 D/A-Converter is packed with cutting-edge tech*nology with one objective - the love of music. The parallels include a consistent dual mono design in the output stages and separate power supplies for digital elec*tronics and the analogue stages. The 560 D/A-Converter adds a digital volume control that allows direct connec*tion to a power amplifier.
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[TD][h=2]Upsampling[/h]Audio data is buffered then upsampled to 24Bit/384kHz. We believe precision of inter*polation is more impor*tant than high clock rates. Our players and D/A converters use an algorithm from the highly regarded Anagram Technologies followed by Burr Brown D/A converters in a digital symmetric configuration. As we consider the PCM conversion technology as superior, the DSD signals get converted before its final D/A conversion.
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[/h]The Zero-Phase-Technology eliminates potential timing/phase errors in the analog output signal. Every D/A converter requires an analog low pass filter in its output in order to suppress high frequency noise and aliasing signals. The 560's 3rd order bessel filter, with a cut-off frequency of 120kHz, does show a phase shift of up to 15° in the audio band. Due to the Zero-Phase-Technology the phase error of the analog music signal remains below 1°, 20Hz - 100kHz! The Zero-Phase-Technology brings you even closer to the beauty of the source material! No detail gets lost.
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[TD][h=2]D/A-conversion[/h]Burr-Brown devices perform D/A conversion only. Their internal upsampling and filter stages are not used. The output currents are converted to voltage and then filtered. With an internal bandwidth of 40 MHz, this current/voltage conversion stage allows best signal-to-noise performance and maximum dynamics in the analogue domain.
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[TD][h=2]Output stage[/h]The wideband output stage of the 560 D/A-Converter has a bandwidth of 20MHz (-3dB). With such speed of response all musical details are reproduced true to life creating a three-dimensional, spatial sound to bring real listening pleasure.
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[TD][h=2]Operation[/h]The 560 D/A-Converter is operated from front-panel buttons and a rotary control. Further functions can be used to optimise and match an entire audio system around different components.
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[TD][h=2]Connections[/h]Analog outputs:
- 1 x balanced output (XLR)
- 1 x unbalanced output (RCA)
Digital outputs:
- 1 x SPDIF (RCA)
- 1 xAES/EBU (XLR)
- 1 x Optical (Toslink)
Digital inputs:
- 1 x SPDIF (RCA)
- 1 x AES/EBU (XLR)
- 1 x Optical (Toslink)
- 1 x USB
- 1 x Ethernet
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It looks good Kev....I'm afraid to ask the cost.

I find it interesting to look at the different approaches. Soulution above says they find PCM superior and converts all DSD to PCM. PS audio has been quite busy here telling everyone DSD is superior and their new DAC converts all PCM to DSD.
 
I think the DAC in the 541 is basically the same as the one in the 560. Leroy (Odyssey) has the 541, so he may be able to help.

I'm not sure anyone else on the forum has either piece yet.
 
Leroy......if you can break away from those D5's give us a holler on what you think of the 541's dac. (If I had his system I probably would never stop listening to reply :D.)
 
I think the 541 and the 560 definitely share the same DAC. I believe Arturo confirmed this with me last week. Also, I just found out that you could add streaming capabilities to the 541 at a significant price, of course.
 
540 to 541

I'm sending my 540 in for upgrade to 541 soon. I'll be sure to report back.....
Streamer 10k addition on top of the 10k for the 541 board which is totally absurd....that doesn't mean I don't want it but you've got to draw the line at some point.
 
FlexibleAudio said:
Leroy......if you can break away from those D5's give us a holler on what you think of the 541's dac. (If I had his system I probably would never stop listening to reply :D.)
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Had a few friends over this past weekend who have piles of vinyl and hard core analogue apologists. We had a "shootout" as it were between the sound of the 541 w streaming dac and the newly delivered Bergmann TT. Out of 6 discs spinned vs matching CD's most of us had a very hard time telling the difference between the two formats. I could not tell the difference in almost all instances. This was a surprise. I'm an analogue fan. I was a hard core R2R guy years ago. I've been restocking my LP collection in anticipation of the new TT. I was expecting a different experience with the Bergmann, but...

I am pleased that I was nudged in the direction of getting the 541 spec'd the way that it is.
 
Wow very impressive. I am trying to decide whether to do analog or digital first. I was leaning toward analog, but now............??

Thanks Le Roy
 
Paul, let me emphasize that there was not consensus formed on all tracks between the vinyl and digital content. I can only emphasize what I heard and the lines were more blurred w others present.

Something else strange. When I stream Spotify (and I do this when I am reading) thru the 541 DAC, it sounds fairly presentable despite the fact that the content is only coming thru at 320 kbps max. there are some cuts that sound pretty good! I think that the Swiss have figured something out!
 
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Le Roy,

Have you had a chance to compare formats: red label versus high def PCM versus DSD 64 or 128??
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Paul, just buy the thing.... ;) You'll give yourself a hernia. I've been through all of this when MSB were the owners of the same real estate, Le roy has "the 5's" & a pretty decent set-up to compliment them. For us it is the now or what was, lots of great music lost in the interim in other words....
 
sharkmouth said:
Paul, just buy the thing.... ;) You'll give yourself a hernia. I've been through all of this when MSB were the owners of the same real estate, Le roy has "the 5's" & a pretty decent set-up to compliment them. For us it is the now or what was, lots of great music lost in the interim in other words....
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Kev, I like your style. Good advice!
 
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