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Berkeley Audio Design Alpha DAC Reference Series 3P
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Berkeley Audio Design Alpha DAC Reference Series 3P
Introducing the Perfected Technology
The Alpha DAC Reference Series 3P embodies everything we know about digital to analog conversion taken to a new level - a level that requires proprietary design concepts and components that combine to redefine what is possible.
The Perfected Technology Alpha DAC Reference Series 3P achieves a level of time domain coherence never available before in an audio D to A converter. The result is profound musical realism. Time domain incoherence erases subtle spatial and timbral audio information essential to the experience of live music. Perfected Technology goes beyond sounding excellent to simply sounding real.
New proprietary RF waveguide isolation technology used in the Reference Series 3P produces unprecedented imaging precision, timbral purity and resolution. The result is an immediacy and presence of music reproduction that is simply real.
MSRP: $34,000
Cost to upgrade Reference Series 3 to 3P / $7000
Input sampling rate: 32kHz to 192kHz
• Ultra low phase noise Precision Clocking at 44.1kHz, 48kHz, 88.2kHz, 96kHz, 176.4kHz and 192kHz sampling rates ± 100 ppm
• Input word length: 24-bit
• Two channel analog stereo outputs: XLR balanced with pin 2 positive and RCA unbalanced
• Digital Inputs: AES - XLR, 110; SPDIF1 - BNC, 75; SPDIF2 - BNC, 75; TOSLINK – Toslink optical connector
• HDCD decoding detects 16-bit flag at 44.1kHz or 24-bit flag at all sampling rates
• MQA Rendering and multiple digital filter options
• Balanced analog output level: +18dBu (6.15Vrms) maximum,
+12dBu (3.1Vrms) or lower recommended
• Unbalanced analog output level: 3.25Vrms maximum, 2Vrms or lower recommended
• Digital volume & balance control: 0.1dB/step with .05dB/step L/R gain trim, 60dB range
• Frequency response at ≥ 88.2kHz sampling rates: ± 0.1dB from < 0.1Hz to 35 kHz,- 3dB at 59kHz for 176.4kHz and 192kHz sampling rates
• Distortion at recommended levels: all products ≤ -120dBFS
• THD+N at maximum level: < -110dBFS
• Firmware field upgradeable through signal inputs
• Enclosure dimensions: 3.5”H X 17.5” W x 12.5”D
• Weight: 30 lbs.
• Mains power: 100/120/240VAC, 50 /60Hz
• Power consumption: 25 W