[Headphony]

Here's an interesting new DAC in the works:

As I understand, Per Abrahamsen is one of the founders of Electrocompaniet, and he is involved with this relatively new company Abrahamsen. I recently picked up an Abrahamsen V2.0 integrated amp, which sounds very nice.

 

[krmathis]

Yeah, Per Abrahamsen was one of the founders of Electrocompaniet about 30 years back. In the spring of 2004 Electrocompaniet were officially bankrupt. The rights to Electrocompaniet were later sold to and revived by the company Westcontrol.

Since then Per Abrahamsen has started a new business called Abrahamsen, where the products surprisingly (or not) look a lot like the Electrocompaniet ones.
The Electrocompaniet ECD1 as a comparison:

For those who understand norwegian there are some nice readings of the history to be found here: AVforum.no - Vis ett enkelt innlegg - Sammenhengen mellom Electrocompaniet og Abrahamsen!

 

[HeadLover]

How much will it cost? and what will be on it?
SPECS ?!

 

[mrarroyo]

I visited their site and their products look amazing. Sadly no dealers in the USA for service should it be needed.

 

[krmathis]

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Originally Posted by HeadLover /img/forum/go_quote.gif How much will it cost? and what will be on it? SPECS ?!

The website say:
"V6.0 balanced D/A converter with USB input, more info coming soon!"

Price not mentioned either. But his other V Series products (V1.0, V2.0, V3.0 and V4.0) sell for NOK 9,995 (USD $1400), so I will not be surprised if its the same price for the V6.0 as well.

 

[mrarroyo]

Anyone knows the price of their cd-player?

 

[Deftoned]

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Anyone knows the price of their cd-player?

NOK 9995 which is the equivalent of US$1430 of today.

 

[mrarroyo]

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Originally Posted by Deftoned /img/forum/go_quote.gif NOK 9995 which is the equivalent of US$1430 of today.

Do you know if they ship overseas? I can not find a dealer in the USA. Thanks.

 

[Deftoned]

The only dealer they link to in Scandinavia is a generally considered low-price consumer electronics chain which if find a bit strange. I'm not sure if they ship overseas. You could check with the their retailer in Greece, they do at least have a website in english.

 

[krmathis]

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Originally Posted by mrarroyo /img/forum/go_quote.gif Do you know if they ship overseas? I can not find a dealer in the USA. Thanks.

Don't seem like they have any dealers overseas. But its worth dropping them a short email: sales@abrahamsenaudio.com

 

[Deftoned]

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Don't seem like they have any dealers overseas. But its worth dropping them a short email: sales@abrahamsenaudio.com

Yes, that is probably the best way to do it. I was a bit tired when I wrote that last post. Thanks krmathis!

 

[mrarroyo]

I have sent them an email. BTW, do you feel that their products would be better or the same as the equivalent from Electrocompaniet. Thanks.

 

[krmathis]

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Originally Posted by Deftoned /img/forum/go_quote.gif Yes, that is probably the best way to do it. I was a bit tired when I wrote that last post. Thanks krmathis!

Pleasure is on my side!

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Originally Posted by mrarroyo /img/forum/go_quote.gif I have sent them an email. BTW, do you feel that their products would be better or the same as the equivalent from Electrocompaniet. Thanks.

Its not out yet, so its hard to say. The V6 have USB input, so just for that it might be "better"...

Looking at the price tags, and knowing that they are probably designed by the same guy, I guess they will be somewhat close.
Electrocompaniet ECD1 => NOK 11,376 - USD $1,650
Abrahamsen V6 => Guestimated NOK 9,995 - USD $1,450

 

[HeadLover]

I wonder, how will be the USB in the V6 ?!
Will it be just "plain simple" or something more better like one in the Benchmark DAC1 ? (or even better if it can

)

 

[Cauhtemoc]

The Abrahamsen V1.0 CD Player runs an AK4396 DACs with an AK4125 doing upsampling, I would not be surprised if the same is true for this dac.