ORPHEUS、新「 Heritage DAC 」を正式発表!!!DSD対応。
The Heritage D/A Converter is the most famous product of the brand Orpheus. It has just been updated in order to be compatible with all the new features avaliaible on the SACD drive from the same line. DSD is now supported as well as a word clock in order to improve the clocks specifications.
The new D/A Converter Heritage has been updated with brand new features as a new DSD (Direct Stream Direct) input. Moreover, the new DAC is able to clock with external clock incoming from the digital source. If no external clock is used, the Time Lock module will generate the master clock used for all the different stages of the converter in order to minimize the jitter. It also keeps the high level of audio technology in using the several upsampling modules and the unique proprietary D/A converter drive modules with 4 D/A converter IC’s per channel. The scrambling technique is used in order to lower the noise due to the D/A conversion. A firewire and a USB 192KHz input had been integrated also in order to connect the DAC Heritage with a computer in order to use the device as an impressive audio external converter. In order to keep the highest rate of performance, we decided to keep a dual mono architecture. That means that each channel has its own power supply and its own transformer in order to erase all interaction between the channels. The DSP board and the DSP board had also been reviewed in order to integrate all these new features and upgrade the level of the most legendary product from Orpheus.
The D/A converter Heritage is composed by two clearly separated boxes. The box with the LED and the logo Orpheus placed on the front panel is the power supply box. It goal is to convert the noisy AC voltage coming from the electrical net into a DC regulated and clean voltage. The other box, is the the electronic signal box. All the part of the digital signal processing and digital to analog conversion is done inside that box in order to avoid catching the noise coming from the AC/DC voltage conversion. The Orpheus logo goes through the treated aluminum front panel. This involves the use of special mechanical processes and some extra very complex steps. When the unit is turned on, a beautiful backlight illuminates the logo and indicates to the user that the device is ready to operate. The marvelous curve of the front panel of the two separated boxes reminds the wave of the Orpheus logo with class and very refined style. This product is the state of art of audio electronics as well as form point of view of the mechanical design.