ELAC Alchemy Series Preamplifier/DAC/Streaming End-Point (AS-DDP2-BK)

Overview

Designed ground-up by the ELAC team, the new Alchemy Series gives birth to a marriage of technologies, bringing further advances to a name known for delivering performance and build quality far exceeding its price. Every component incorporates relevant, well-thought-out features and topology that is important to critical listeners, like discrete implementation of power supply, preamplifier and signal processing to bring you best-in-class sound. With years of experience in award-winning analog and digital products, the Alchemy Series establishes a new standard for value in the world of high-end audio separates.

Alchemy Transforms Your Listening

The Alchemy DDP-2 combines three components in one elegant piece of gear to give you the highest-quality digital-to-analog converter, preamp and digital streamer we know how to make. Then we combined it in a single chassis only 1U (1.75 inches) high. The preamplifier offers maximum flexibility, while incorporating DAC and streaming functions to make the DDP-2 the centerpiece of your digital system.

Features

• Dual 32 bit/384 kHz DAC operating in digitally balanced mode
• Custom-selectable DSP filter profiles
• Configurable up-sampling to 384 kHz
• Selectable resolution enhancement upgrades 16 bit to 24 bit, and 24 bit to 32bit
• DSD up to 4X
• Ultra-low phase noise Phase-Locked Loop jitter filter
• MQA capable
• Discovery, Spotify Connect, Bluetooth, AirPlay, Roon endpoint
• High-efficiency switching power supply for digital stages
• Home theater bypass mode
• Fully discrete FET, with DC servo-control
• Ultra-low-noise DC voltage regulators
• Digitally controlled analog volume control
• Toroidal transformer and linear power supply for analog stages
• Ethernet port for software updates, command and control
• 12 V trigger with pass-through
• IR control and learning
• OLED Display for clear user information
• iOS and Android app configuration