Soulution 746 Reference CD/SACD Player/DAC The last word for CD and computer playback - Amazing Deal!

For your consideration is an opportunity to own the stunning Soulution 746 for a fraction of the $90,000 retail. In my showroom, the 746 easily toppled the mighty dCS Vivaldi fitted with a Nordost Valhalla loom ($200,000 total) and just about every other competitor. You can almost call this Swiss beauty cheap with a straight face. It is in excellent condition with a few small blemishes that are VERY hard to spot. There is a very faint mark on back of remote, small mark on lower right bottom of the main chassis, and a couple of faint marks on the rear top edge of the power supply but is otherwise is new. I only sell extremely high end equipment and am very critical of condition so expect to be thrilled with this unit as it is really very clean. It was upgraded to a 746 from a recent 745, not an outdated 740. We have just fitted it with a new Teac VRDS NEO transport mechanism under warranty so it is functionally as good as a new one. The 746 is certainly the final word in reference CD playback and also a world-class DAC with Toslink, SPDIF, and AES/EBU inputs. There is no USB input as Soulution prefers to use external USB or Firewire to AES/EBU converters for computer playback. Using their USB to AES converter, it is superior to most computer DAs that money can buy. These converters run $500 on up for a good one. All packing, remote, power cables, and printed manual are included. Due to the size and weight of the boxes, this will need to ship motor-freight for to ensure safe arrival. Keep your eye on our other listings as we will be adding a Soulution 720 preamp and 711 power amp very soon!

Some of the many technical highlights from the Soulutuion website:

Upsampling
Audio data from the disc is buffered. A powerful SHARC DSP performs the 8x over­sampling to 24 bit /352.8 kHz (24 bit/384 kHz depending on the digital input signal) with the utmost precision. We believe precision of inter­polation is more important than high clock rates. Our players use an algorithm from the highly regarded Anagram Technologies followed by Burr Brown D/A converters in a digital symmetric configuration. For SACD only, conversion to PCM is used prior to D/A conversion. The PCM format allows us to use innovative processes like the Zero Phase Technology.

zeroφtech
The 746 SACD-Player is equipped with soulution’s innovative Zero-Phase-Technology. Smallest timing errors provoked by the analog low pass filter of the D/A converter get eliminated. Every D/A-converter requires an analog low pass filter in its output in order to suppress high frequency noise and aliasing signals. The 3rd order bessel filter , used for the 746 SACD-Player, 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°, 20 Hz – 100kHz! The Zero-Phase-Technology brings you even closer to the beauty of the source material! The 746 SACD-Player is equipped with soulution’s innovative Zero-Phase-Technology. Smallest timing errors provoked by the analog low pass filter of the D/A converter get eliminated. The music gets even more realistic and 3-dimensional with a lot of “air” around instruments and voices. As close to the source as possible! No detail gets lost.

D/A converter and output stage
Burr-Brown devices perform D/A conversion only. Their internal upsamling and filter functions are by-passed. They run in dual-mono mode. The four output currents are converted to voltage and then filtered. With an internal bandwidth of 80 MHz, this current/voltage conversion stage allows best signal-to-noise performance and maximum dynamics in the analogue domain.

Output stage
The 746’s extremely wideband output stage is identical to that of the 720 reference preamplifier, including the power supply. A 40 MHz/– 3 dB bandwidth ensures every musical detail is reproduced true to life producing a three-dimensional, spatial sound. Output signal levels are enough to keep interconnect influences to an absolute minimum.

Clock
No less impressive is the master clock generator which provides an ultra-precise clock signal. Residual jitter at below one picosecond is effectively undetectable with current test equipment.

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International buyers are welcome but contact us for details as this will need to ship on a small pallet.

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