The Well-Tempered Computer, an introduction to computer audio

Saturday, July 2, 2011

Accuphase 900 series digital components

Accuphase of Japan just launched the new DD-900 SACD transport and DC-901 DAC.  


In addition to coaxial SPDIF output, the DD-900 SACD Transport will be to output DSD stream via its proprietary HS-Link connection to the DC-901 DAC.  


The DAC sports HS-Link, coaxial, Toslink and AES/EBU inputs as well as a high speed 24/192kHz capable USB input.  It also has a "digital tape loop" I/O after the de-jitter circuit and just before the DAC chip itself for connection to a digital signal processor.  The DC-901 uses two ESS SABRE32 DAC chips, one per channel.  Volume controlled in the digital domain.  Balanced and unbalanced outputs.

Pricing approximately US$10,000 for each unit.