Category Archives: DAC’s

Announcing new Hifime DAC’s with ESS Sabre 9018

We are proud to be releasing several new DAC’s made with the Sabre ES9018K2M DAC chip. This chip has great specs like 127dB DNR, -120dB THD+N and patented Time Domain Jitter Eliminator. First out is Hifime 9018, which uses the same small compact box as our U2 and UAE23 Sabre dac’s. We used a double PCB to be able to fit in this [read more]

New USB DAC and USB to SPDIF in/out

We have a new product ready for you 🙂 This is a small DAC Sabre ES9023 DAC powered by USB bus and with many useful additional features: Two USB to analog outputs. One direct from es9023 chip and one buffered by TPA6120 USB to SPDIF digital output SPDIF digital input to USB Requires no external power [read more]

New SPDIF (optical/coaxial) Sabre DAC

We have made a new version version of the optical/coaxial input ES9023 DAC, this time in a case and with an added headphone amplifier. It has a trafo inside, so it runs on mains voltage directly.  The left knob switches between standby, optical and the two coaxial inputs, the right is a volume knob that [read more]

New version of SABRE DAC 2 / UAE23+

We’ll help you celebrating christmas with the new version of our externally powered Sabre dac. We have included a headphone amp in this new version, and made it fit the same box as the UD20 amplifier uses. The volume knob controls the headphone out only, so the direct line out on the back is not [read more]

Asynchronous USB Audio / Asynchronous Digital to Analog Converters

USB transfer modes has received a lot of interest and attention recently and “Asynchronous DAC’s” has been praised and hyped for it’s superior performance. However there seems to be a lot of confusion around asynchronous USB Audio.  There is a good and explaining article at EDN network about USB Audio.  Here’s a short explanation: There are 4 [read more]

ASIO driver for Savitech (SA9023) devices available

Savitech has released Windows ASIO drivers for the SA9023 USB receiver.  It can be downloaded here. ASIO drivers provides lower latency by bypassing the normal audio path in windows. However it is not required to use ASIO, the Savitech SA9023 devices also works with the native USB audio drivers. Asio drivers is is only recommended [read more]