Perreaux has included some important design features, such as digital reclocking for jitter reduction, discrete shunt regulators to provide clean power, a buffered passive volume control for low noise, and direct-coupled inputs to retain sonic purity. The attractive DP32 is equipped with a touch-panel
interface that's said to be intuitive and thus easy to use, along with a handy display
area that indicates the sampling frequency in use. |
he forward march of the
combination DAC-preamp continues with Perreaux's Audiant DP32 ($2895), a fully balanced
analog preamplifier with onboard 32-bit/192kHz digital-to-analog converter that features
asynchronous USB streaming. The Audiant DP32's DAC is ESS Technology’s flagship
32-bit Sabre32 ES9018, which handles the signal to unit's digital inputs: AES/EBU, USB,
coaxial and optical. The fully balanced analog preamplifier offers two buffered analog
inputs and pairs of analog outputs, each of which accommodates balanced XLR or
single-ended RCA connection. The Audiant DP32 also has a selectable bypass mode for
integration into any home-theater system.