lavry has annouced new lavryblack(da10), why not give it a try?

http://www.lavryengineering.com/productspage_da_10.html

Lavry Engineering introduces DA10, a new stand alone stereo digital to analog converter. The half rack unit can receive AES or SPDIF digital audio on XLR, RCA and optical link.

The DA provides three Clock modes. The preferred modes are CrystalLock ™ and Narrow Lock modes, but the unit also offers a Wide lock mode based on an internal Sample rate conversion for listening at non standard sampling rates.

The level of the analog outputs (balanced or unbalanced) is controlled by an up–down switch and a 2 digit display. The “potentiometer free” discrete analog attenuator provides up to 60dB very high precision volume control in 1 dB steps.

A state of the art discrete headphone driver is capable of accommodating at ease even the lowest impedance headphones. The unit includes a polarity switch, and a Stereo-Mono switch, a feature aimed at mastering studios.

This DAC uses a clever synchronous dejittering scheme with a buffer and a voltage controlled oscillator. They claim this gives them jitter performance as good as with a master clock without requiring the back channel.

edit: Just realized that this unit has a volume control. This looks very tempting.

Cheers

Thomas

Apparently it's still not out, but hopefully will be by mid December.

http://www.gearslutz.com/board/showp...5&postcount=15

Interesting how it will fare against DAC1. LavryBlue, which supposedly the same as LavryBlack DA10, has been compared favourably against DAC1.

I just wish one of these would finally add a USB or firewire interface.