Pink Triangle DaCapo Digital Analogue Converter w/ 1307 Filter

From its premature Genesis, the world of digital audio has been fraught with problems. Not least because the technology available to realise the infinite picture of analogue sounds through a process of quantisation using 16 bits is not yet with us… that is to say not yet with us in a form that isn’t heavily compromised mathematically.
Having more than a decade ago established ourselves as an objective science based company, pink triangle, unlike most of its competition in the world of analogue, preferred not to join the freight and fill the hi-fi arena with expletives and ill-considered rantings and ravings about how terrible digital audio was… We never knocked the system and yes, we accepted that for the many, many consumers of nasty systems digital audio and especially CD would raise the lowest common denominator of domestic music entertainment by quite a substantial margin.
At Pink, we have always prided ourselves on the fact that we never launched into the hi-fi marketplace a product that isn’t clearly (as defined by our objective references) a technology leader in its area of the market.
Within all possible reason we have always considered it a fundamental necessity to lead the science of our field, and to provide state-of-the-art products within that field. For us the standards have to apply to digital audio as much as they do for analogue audio.
Herein lay the rub: given our real and continuous cynicism towards digital audio, how could we, with any degree of conviction choose to let loose on the buying public, a digital product that would satisfy our criteria for excellence and advancement without compromising our innate and profound belief and indulgence and analogue audio!
Over four years of research and development have given us and you the answer…
It’s here now… It’s called DaCapo and it is the finest implementation of digital audio available to the consumer.
The analogue arena is a place where the front end reigns supreme, where information lost can never be retrieved, where the dictum is spend as much as you can on the turntable: the digital arena however, is a place where the signal, once extracted from the little silver disc, needs preserving in digital form to be processed and much more importantly reconstructed to provide a true analogue wave form which sounds good. To begin with CD player transports are unable to deliver the pulsed packets of raw signal data to the digital to analogue converter in perfect synchronisation. This phenomenon of synchronicity of the digital data stream is called Jitter. Put simply, jitter results and the signal pulses and data being read incorrectly. This variance in time is measured in minute amounts – amounts as small or as large as one thousand millionths of a second. The only problem is the ear can detect jitter down to 40 million millionths of a second! To make matters worse, even the leads carrying the data-stream from the transport to the converter introduces jitter, which in turn, is further compounded when the associated circuitry is called upon to do the processing. If all this seems like techno bubble, then for the final proof one merely need to listen to the sound emanating from the average digital system - high-end or otherwise. It is variously described as bright, edgy, lacking in ambience, or just plain digital.
DaCapo breaks the mould. It addresses all of these points by firstly not using conventional chipsets which are prone to high levels of jitter. It is an in-house design where the digital to analogue conversion is constructed discreetly with the selected components providing near-absolute control at each processing stage to minimise jitter and hence to more accurately reconstruct the signal waveform. Supply of power is via dual mono analogue transformers as well as a separate transformer for the digital stages. As well as these there are seventeen separate regulators. If that weren’t enough, there is a further massive optional battery power supply called DC. All of these steps are necessary because the digital signal is being processed at a very high frequency (16.9 MHz) and at these frequencies it is all too easy for the signal to become corrupted. Technically, DaCapo holds the World Record of controlling Jetter to less than 10 picoseconds - less than 10 million millionths of a second…!
The sound of DaCapo is therefore variously described and characterised as smooth, detailed with more ambience and space than ever previously obtained by any other DAC manufacturer. As for dynamics, these will be found with all the power, weight and control anyone could possibly want. Lesser DAC’s can do some of these things to varying degrees, but it has taken DaCapo to build every desirable aspect of digital audio into a cohesive picture.
The end result? A leading edge technology digital to analogue converter which will perform extraordinarily well despite the vagaries of the different transport or even modest CD players it may be connected to.

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