The Well-Tempered Computer, an introduction to computer audio

Friday, May 20, 2011

Bladelius USB DAC

Swedish Bladelius Design Group's first in a series of mini accessory products is a USB-only DAC.  The Asynchronous USB DAC is 24/192kHz capable (based on the XMOS chip) and is powered by the USB port but signals are galvanically isolated.  It uses a minimum phase type filter with no pre-ringing to achieve a more natural sound with less digital harshness.
  • 24 bit/192 kHz
  • Asynchronous USB transfer, re-clocking with a fixed low jitter crystal clock
  • Galvanic isolation between USB and the analog circuits
  • Super low noise power supply with multistage regulation and filtering
  • Low order modulator for low out of band noise 
  • Digital filter with minimum phase
  • Analog output stage is a high performance / high drive (output 2.5v)