April Music Eximus DP-1 Ref Level DAC/Headphone Pre

Outstanding Reference level April Music Eximus DP-1 DAC and Class A headphone preamp. This is a world class level quality DAC that has progressed in development for over 15 years from their superlative designer. Superior DAC performance up to 24/192 including upsampling if needed. This is simply a wonderful sounding stand alone DAC, class A headphone preamp and separate preamp if needed. Every detail has been well thought out and designed to provide superlative performance at a real world price. Beautiful industrial design chassis and user interface.

This unit is only 2 years old and is in mint condition with no scratches. It looks like absolutely new. This is really a piece of artwork to have in your system. I have used it with several different music file playback softwares like JRiver, Roon, and Tidal without issues.

I have also used this as a stand alone Class A headphone preamp just using the analogue inputs from CDP and Phono Pre and it sounds amazing with superlative headphones. Really no need to spend any more money on a world class headphone preamp that also includes a world class DAC section. Very flexible.

I have the original box and owners manual.

*Several Reviews online (The Absolute Sound and Six Moons)

The EXIMUS DP1 is a high-end digital to analog converter up to 192kHz/24Bit, which can also be used as a pure preamplifier and top-quality headphone amplifier.

The DP1 has 6 digital inputs including USB 2.0. Each input supports playback of files up to 192kHz/24Bit (44.1, 48, 88.2, 96, 176.4, 192kHz). For USB this is accomplished with the ultimate USB 2.0 solution from XMOS with its super-quality oscillators (2 separate oscillators for the multiples of 44.1 and 48kHz).

Alex Rasmussen of A-Rex/Neal Feay designed the chassis cosmetics. Alex owns a full-capacity machine shop in Santa Barbara, CA and is famous for his remarkable industrial designs for Ayre, Constellation Audio, Resolution Audio and many others. The basic design concept of the chassis is the leaf. It represents springtime and with it the month of April like our company name. The volume control, engraved details on the top and all the lines are based on this leaf theme.

192kHz sampling frequency support
Low jitter recovery mechanism for a very low jitter clock recovery
Very high sensitivity differential input circuit
External noise reduction circuit for minimizing transmission errors
ASRC(24Bit/192kHz upsampling D/A conversion)
Upsampling up to 192kHz
THD: 133dB
Dynamic range: 142dB
DAC(D/A converter)
THD: 0.0004%
Dynamic range: 132dB

Power supply
Custom designed power transformer
Very low output impedance
Line voltage selection 100~117V/220~240V

PCB design
Separated digital and analog circuits design to minimize the digital noise

*Purchase from long time Audiogon member with over 17 years of perfect feedback!