Weiss DAC 202 Firewire DA Converter

Description

The Weiss DAC202 is a reference class Firewire D/A Converter with a IR remote control for volume control, absolute phase and input source selection.

Features of the Weiss DAC 202:

• Available in silver or black finish
• Digital Inputs: AES/EBU or S/PDIF on 1 XLR, 1 RCA, 1 Toslink, Firewire
• Digital Outputs: AES/EBU on 1 XLR, 1 RCA, Firewire
• Main Analog Output: 2 stereo analog outputs, one on XLR one on RCA
• Headphone output on 1/4″ Jack

• Level control main output: 4 coarse settings via relays (analog domain), fine setting via rotary encoder (digital domain). Level control can be defeated for the main output.
• Level control headphone output:  4 coarse settings via relays (analog domain, independent from the settings in the main output), fine setting via rotary encoder (digital domain).

• Wordsync input on BNC connector
• Wordsync output on BNC connector

Frontpanel controls:

• LCD display for display of sampling rate, input source, audio level, absolute phase, upsampling filter type, various menu items
• Rotary encoder with push switch
• IR receiver
• Standby LED
• Headphone Jack socket

Special features:

• Transparency check (allows to check the bit transparency of a playback chain)
• Setting of the coarse output levels (analog domain), separate for the main output and the headphone output
• Dual / single wire selection for 176.4 / 192 kHz sampling rate
• “Insert Mode” allows to loop in a external digital audio device (e.g. a equalizer) via the AES/EBU I/O on the XLR connectors
• Sampling rate setting on the WSYNC I/O connectors in dual wire mode
• Display brightness

IR Remote control switches:

• power on/off
• volume up
• volume down
• input sources (4 switches for Firewire, XLR, RCA. Toslink)
• DAC upsampling filter type
• mute
• absolute phase

Sampling rates: 44.1 up to 192 khz / 24 Bits

The DAC202 also has a new D/A converter and new analog output stages

compared to former D/A Converter models. The D/A converter uses two converters per channel to gain in signal to noise ratio.