DS-DAC-100(Clearance) – Digital-to-Analog Audio Converter with Real-time DSD conversion

Beautiful sound and beautiful design – DS-DAC-100

If we’re talking about beautiful sound, we also want the appearance to be beautiful.

Leave behind the bustle of everyday life, and spend a holiday afternoon deeply immersed in the music you love. Audio equipment lacking a professional aesthetic is not going to transport the listener to a world that’s distant from reality. The DS-DAC100 is housed in an elegant and curvaceous body, with a simple front panel with a volume knob, LED indicators, and a headphone jack. The influence of vibration is minimized by a bottom panel with gleaming metal spiked feet (as found on other high-end audio equipment).

In response to numerous requests from audio aficionados and studio engineers, we’ve provided XLR connectors for balanced outputs as well as RCA outputs.

“AudioGate 3” and “DS-DAC series” — the simplest high-quality audio playback system

Simply connect the DS-DAC-100/100m to your computer via USB cable, and you have a high-quality audio playback system. The system consists of AudioGate 3 software that plays back audio material from your computer with the best possible quality, together with the DS-DAC-100/100m which converts the data from AudioGate 3 into an analog signal for playback through your headphones or speaker system. When it comes to high-quality playback of computer audio, the software and hardware are equally important; if either is lacking, you can’t expect optimal audio quality. With its long history of developing both software and hardware that meets professional demands for quality, KORG was uniquely able to create this ideal music playback environment.

Pro-quality hardware design that builds on the achievements of the MR series DSD recorders

• The data is conveyed via “asynchronous transmission,” which does not synchronize with the USB clock of the computer, thus allowing high-quality playback with minimal jitter.

The power supply section is driven from USB bus power, thus avoiding any noise component that might enter via the power cable, ensuring high quality audio playback.

The DA converter uses the CS4398 made by Cirrus Logic, the same reliable and ultra-high-quality component that can be found on the MR series devices. It provides performance equivalent to that of the MR-1000, an acclaimed standard in professional studios and as a field recording device, providing high quality that exceeds other units in its class.

In this way, the DS-DAC-100/100m has been designed with painstaking detail and with the highest specifications for every part of the system.

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