COPLAND UNIVERSAL HIGH-RESOLUTION DAC, PRE-AMPLIFIER, HEADPHONE AMPLIFIER

The digital revolution has made music easily accessible. Thanks to the convenience and impressive sound quality of computer-sourced digital music files, many audiophiles consider their personal computer or laptop as their primary audio source. Connected to a computer the DA215 will process audio data of extremely high resolution and the playback quality will be defined mainly by the data itself.

The heart of the DA215 is an excellent D/A converter with multiple S/PDIF inputs, PCM, and DSD capabilities using the ES9018 Reference 32-bit DAC in quad-mono configuration, 8 mono to 2 stereo configuration. Combining four in-phase and four opposite-phase converters per channel, the statistical properties of the signals are taken to advantage; the signal power of the phases correlates and add-up in constructive addition, whereas the noise power of the phases is de-correlated, improving the signal-to-noise ratio of the resulting analog waveform.

The class-A buffering technology of the analog filtering sections is borrowed from the highly acclaimed Copland CD players and composed of discrete transistors producing a stunning sound quality with unconstrained mobility and acceleration.

The DA215 incorpor160311_Copland_63423ates an asynchronous USB input, tree S/PDIF digital inputs, an analog input, two analogue outputs (fixed and variable) and a complete pre-amplifier with analog volume control and front panel headphone output featuring vacuum tube gain stages.

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You can use the DAC215 for headphones playback. However, using the amplifier RCA outputs, you can also use it as a high-end pre-amplifier with volume control. The volume control and pre-amplifier functionality can be bypassed for pure DAC mode.

The DA215 USB input implementation is one of the most advanced available, featuring USB 2.0 PCM 24/32 bit data transfer to 384 kHz, including native DSD64 and high-resolution DSD128. The input is converted to i2s, and it is connected directly to the DAC chip.

Once connected, th160311_Copland_63428 1e computer recognizes the DAC and routes the digital audio data to it, bypassing the source device’s internal audio circuitry.

The asynchronous USB-B port connects to the computer’s USB-A port. No power is taken from the computer. The regulated power supply for the USB input section has its own winding of the power transformer and the noisy computer line is completely interrupted by using digital Isolators.

Dedicated USB driver software is necessary to install on a PC for Windows.

No drivers are required for Macs and Linux

You can download the Windows driver here

COPLAND UNIVERSAL HIGH-RESOLUTION DAC, PRE-AMPLIFIER, HEADPHONE AMPLIFIER

The digital revolution has made music easily accessible. Thanks to the convenience and impressive sound quality of computer-sourced digital music files, many audiophiles consider their personal computer or laptop as their primary audio source. Connected to a computer the DA215 will process audio data of extremely high resolution and the playback quality will be defined mainly by the data itself.

The heart of the DA215 is an excellent D/A converter with multiple S/PDIF inputs, PCM, and DSD capabilities using the ES9018 Reference 32-bit DAC in quad-mono configuration, 8 mono to 2 stereo configuration. Combining four in-phase and four opposite-phase converters per channel, the statistical properties of the signals are taken to advantage; the signal power of the phases correlates and add-up in constructive addition, whereas the noise power of the phases is de-correlated, improving the signal-to-noise ratio of the resulting analog waveform.

The class-A buffering technology of the analog filtering sections is borrowed from the highly acclaimed Copland CD players and composed of discrete transistors producing a stunning sound quality with unconstrained mobility and acceleration.

The DA215 incorpor160311_Copland_63423ates an asynchronous USB input, tree S/PDIF digital inputs, an analog input, two analogue outputs (fixed and variable) and a complete pre-amplifier with analog volume control and front panel headphone output featuring vacuum tube gain stages.

160311_Copland_63508
You can use the DAC215 for headphones playback. However, using the amplifier RCA outputs, you can also use it as a high-end pre-amplifier with volume control. The volume control and pre-amplifier functionality can be bypassed for pure DAC mode.

The DA215 USB input implementation is one of the most advanced available, featuring USB 2.0 PCM 24/32 bit data transfer to 384 kHz, including native DSD64 and high-resolution DSD128. The input is converted to i2s, and it is connected directly to the DAC chip.

Once connected, th160311_Copland_63428 1e computer recognizes the DAC and routes the digital audio data to it, bypassing the source device’s internal audio circuitry.

The asynchronous USB-B port connects to the computer’s USB-A port. No power is taken from the computer. The regulated power supply for the USB input section has its winding of the power transformer, and the noisy computer line is completely interrupted by using digital Isolators.

Dedicated USB driver software is necessary to install on a PC for Windows.

No drivers are required for Macs and Linux

You can download the Windows driver here

Copland DAC-215 PDF

• A review of the Copland DAC215 - DAC, tube pre-amp and tube headphone amp. Includes discussion of it's use as a pre-amp in a nearfield speaker system and also driving active speakers.

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