Pro-Ject DAC Box DS
Beschrijving / Description
But back to the DAC Box DS, which sits in the company's midrange line-up, above the entry-level DAC Box s and the hideaway DAC Box TV (the latter designed to connect TV sound to a hi-fi amplifier, and in the company's no-frills black Elemental casework) but below the high-end DAC Box RS, which offers a tube output stage, balanced and RCA outputs and an I2S interface for use with the company's CD Box RS.
The DAC Box DS is in the narrow but tall casework of the other DS components, at just over 10cm wide and twice as tall as the smallest S-Line products, at 7.2cm. There's a prominent blue on black display, selectors for input (coaxial/electrical, Toslink optical and asynchronous USB-B) and filter (steep/optimal phase) and an external power supply and well, that's about it.
Under the lid it uses TI's PCM-1792 converter with 8x oversampling, and can handle PCM at up to 192kHz, and with the update both 64x DSD and 128x DSD sample rates. Operation couldn't be much simpler a 24-bit/192KHz driver for Windows PCs is provided on a disc in the box, but with Macs, and for lesser formats on Windows, the Pro-Ject just works as soon as it's connected to a computer via the USB socket.
Specificaties / Specifications
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