Rega DAC-R D/A Converter (11689)
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| Ships from | Denton, TX, 76209 |
| Ships to | United States |
| Package dimensions | unspecified |
| Shipping carriers | UPS or FedEx |
| Shipping cost | $30.00 |
| Original accessories | Remote Control, Box, Manual |
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Product: Rega DAC-R D/A Converter
Serial Number: 11689
Voltage: 115V
Cosmetic Description: 9/10 Excellent condition with no notable blemishes.
What is Included: Converter, Remote, Manual, Power cable, Factory packaging
Functional Notes: Operational condition of this item is excellent
Age: 4 years, purchased from Audio Concepts in Dallas in November 2015 (receipt available)
# of Owners: 1
Tobacco Exposure: No
Service History: None
MSRP: $1195
Owner's notes: Enjoyed this component for four years. Was very reluctant to even hear other DACs, despite the Rega being 1/10th the price of any other component in my system. Outstanding performer. 4 years on Stereophile's Recommended Components list as "borderline Class A."
Micheal Lavorgna writes in Audiostream: “If I told you that Rega's DAC-R sounds nice, warm, and fairly meaty would you be surprised? Well it does. The DAC-R also offers a very nice sense of resolution, unraveling music in a relaxed, yet musically convincing manner.”
Review in: Stereophile
Review in: AudioStream
Review in: WhatHiFi
Shipping: USA-only, flat rate $30. Will double-box to preserve original Rega packaging.
Full description from manufacturer:
The Rega DAC-R is a 16/20/24-bit at 32kHz to 192kHz digital to analogue converter. Incorporating an enhanced version of the Rega designed circuit, the DAC-R offers the highest possible resolution over all inputs including fully asynchronous USB with the addition of remote functionality.
Developed to be simple to set up and use, the Rega DAC-R is designed to optimize performance from any two channel PCM digital audio source. With the PC now widely accepted as a credible medium for storing and streaming music, the use of high quality lossless files such as WAV, FLAC and ALAC offer performance through the DAC-R equal to, and in some cases better than, Red Book CD. Great care has been taken to remove noise generated by the PC and other input sources. (During development this was identified as a major drawback with many DAC’s on the market today).
The DAC-R is housed in a custom aluminum and steel case and boasts a pair of Wolfson DAC IC’s, three user selectable digital filters and one isolated asynchronous USB, two isolated Co-axial inputs & two Toslink SPDIF inputs.
The DAC-R has been designed and engineered to integrate perfectly into any system and achieve the highest performance in its class. We hope you enjoy this Rega product for many years to come.
The optical and coaxial input stage comprises a Wolfson digital receiver with a high stability, low jitter clock driving the receiver PLL. The receiver and PLL have their own dedicated power supplies.
The DAC stage comprises a pair of parallel-connected Wolfson WM8742 DAC’s, that are driven via a buffer stage, which ensures the integrity of the data being fed to the DAC IC’s similar to the arrangement used in the Isis reference CDP.
The USB input stage is comprised of a bit perfect XMOS USB Audio 2.0 with asynchronous clocking. The USB input stage feeds the Optical and Coaxial input stage via an isolating transformer giving total isolation from the host computer.
The output amplifier employs a discrete differential, multiple feedback filter and output amplifier, with a high cut-off frequency for use with higher sample rates. We decided not to use a sample rate converter and process the data at the incoming sample rate which keeps the signal processing to a minimum. Jitter was minimized by synchronously clocking the digital data with our receiver PLL (removing any jitter from the input signal).
All the capacitors associated with the analogue signal path are audio grade bypassed with MMK polyester capacitors, and low impedance conductive polymer capacitors are used for DAC decoupling.
The power supply utilizes a toroidal transformer, fast rectifier diodes and again audio grade capacitors. There is a power supply for the control micro controller, separate from the digital & analogue audio stages. Special attention being paid to the inter IC control signals ensures the control data noise is kept to a minimum.
DAC 2x Wolfson WM8742
Frequency Response (100KΩ load) Filter 1 selected
Low data rate 44.1/48kHz = 10Hz -0.05dB to (44.1K) 20.02kHz (48K) 21.7kHz -0.03dB
Medium data rate 88.2/96kHz = 10Hz -0.05dB to (88.1K) 28.7kHz (96K) 31.2kHz -3dB
High data rate 176.4/192kHz = 10Hz -0.05dB to (176.4K) 44.1kHz (192K) 47.7kHz -3dB
Maximum output level = 2.175V into 100KΩ load
Bit resolution (all inputs) 16 to 24bit
Supported data rates = 32, 44.1, 48, 88.2, 96, 176.4, 192kHz
Total Harmonic Distortion all inputs (24bit 96kHz) = 0.006% @ 1kHz
Signal to Noise Ratio -105dB (relative to maximum output level with a 100Hz to 22kHz bandwidth)
Digital inputs
USB Asynchronous Isolated (24bit 44.1/48/88.2/96/176.4/192kHz)
Input 1 Optical/Toslink (24bit 32/44.1/48/88.2/96/176.4/192kHz)
Input 2 Optical /Toslink (24bit 32/44.1/48/88.2/96/176.4/192kHz)
Input 3 Isolated 75Ω Co-axial (24bit 32/44.1/48/88.2/96/176.4/192kHz)
Input 4 Isolated 75Ω Co-axial (24bit32/44.1/48/88.2/96/176.4/192kHz)
Digital SPDIF outputs (via receiver & PLL)
Optical/Toslink
Isolated 75Ω Co-axial
Power 230v/115v/7.6W
Dimensions W 215mm x D 320mm x H 80mm
Remote NEC system (6E91)
Weight 4.0 Kg
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