D/A converters topics
AYA 5 revision B is the 2024 release of the famous DAC project. It is a non-oversampling converter based on the TDA1541(A), and it includes an asynchronous USB with up to 384 kHz capability, an S/PDIF, and optional direct inputs, and a discrete output stage without feedback.
In previous years, some of our customers experienced issues connecting S5 and AYA 5 DACs with some USB sources. As it turned out, it was caused by some streamers’ inability to work with more than 2-channel devices.
As it was already announced, we are migrating to the revised S5 version, named S5b. The main news brought by […]
Summer 2023 brings the third version of the Audial USB interface board. And just like its predecessors, it is a limited series, available only for preordering.
Audial remote control is a unique product of this kind, in a machined case. It is also “unified”, in a way the one unit works with all Audial devices supporting remote control operation.
“Will I benefit from adding a DDC (digital to digital converter) and connecting it to S5 or AYA 5 A-link input, instead of using their USB input? Is A-link better than USB?” I am regularly receiving such questions. And here is the reply.
It is almost a year and a half since we started shipping the S5, and this DAC recently got some updates. A bit more information about them is following, and some of the information and photographs of the S5 internals you might find actually premiered here.
According to the feedback we got recently, the interest in the USB interface and AYA projects may have re-emerged. And in case we find it adequate, we will go and release one or both of these projects again, as limited series.
The Model S DAC has been initially released 11 years ago. A current version of this reference TDA1541A D/A converter, a Mark3, will be the last one, and it will be gradually discontinued by the end of this year.
The AYA 4 was a very nice project, and it apparently remained on your radar way after the originally produced quantity was sold out. So we will make it one more time.
AYA 4 is 2018 AYA release, with all the features of previous AYA II DACs, and completely changed, now no-compromise, 192 or 384 kHz capable asynchronous USB stage. AYA 4 can be used as usual stereo DAC, but its USB input stage can be also made as 4 channel interface.
