New Weiss DAC

Weiss haveannouned a new dac, a replacement for the Minerva, fron the specs it looks interesting.
Digital Inputs: AES/EBU or S/PDIF on 1 XLR, 1 RCA, 1 Toslink, Firewire
- Digital Outputs: AES/EBU on 1 XLR, 1 RCA, Firewire
- Main Analog Output: 2 stereo analog outputs, one on XLR one on RCA,
- Headphone output on 1/4" Jack

- Level control main output: 4 coarse settings via relays (analog domain),
fine setting via rotary encoder (digital domain). Level control can be
defeated for the main output.
- Level control headphone output: 4 coarse settings via relays (analog
domain, independent from the settings in the main output), fine setting via
rotary encoder (digital domain).

- Wordsync input on BNC
- Wordsync output on BNC

Frontpanel controls:
- LCD display for display of sampling rate, input source, audio level,
absolute phase, upsampling filter type, various menu items
- rotary encoder with push switch
- IR receiver
- standby LED
- headphone Jack socket


Special features hidden in sub-menues:
- transparency check (allows to check the bit transparency of a playback
chain)
- setting of the coarse output levels (analog domain)
- dual / single wire selection for 176.4 / 192 kHz sampling rate
- display brightness


IR Remote control switches:
- power on/off
- volume up
- volume down
- input sources (4 switches for Firewire, XLR, RCA. Toslink)
- DAC upsampling filter type
- mute
- absolute phase


Sampling rates: 44.1 up to 192 khz / 24 Bits

Mechanics: The same looks and size as the Minerva.

The DAC202 also has a new D/A converter and new analog output stages
compared to the Minerva. The D/A converter uses two converters per channel
to gain in signal to noise ratio. We do not disclose any information on the
specifics of the analog circuitry at this time.

Keith.

 

Price to be close to the current Minerva!
Keith.

 

Hi Keith,

What is the price of this?

Good tro meet you the other day at the bake off.

SCIDB

 

Hello Dean, very nice to meet you to, I am told it is going to be close to the old Minerva, Keith.

 

Hi Keith,

I don't know how much the old Minerva was to buy.

SCIDB

 

Dean Hi about £3k, inc vat and delivery.
Hopefully it will be exceptionally good, hopefully even better than the DACII , very best Keith.