POSEIDON, a reference grade DAC, base price 23 000 Euro (plus VAT inside EU)
The successor to Pacific DAC and the Golden Gate. Premiere October 2023.
It was designed in an unprecedented effort, to challenge the world's best DACs like MSB, dCs, Audio-Note, Wadax, Trinity and Aries Cerat.
What is standard: USB input - DSD 512x. PCM 768 kHz via USB , Rca S/PDIF input - up to 192 kHz, premium Copper capacitors. Tube changing (rolling) is possible - see manual for details.
Each DAC, besides USB and S/PDIF, has AES/EBU, Toslink digital inputs, as well as two analog input acting like an active preamp - one RCA and one fully balanced XLR.
Dac has tube diode rectifier (Emission Labs, KR-Audio (KRON) or Sophia Electric or Psvane from 5U4G or 274B type. )
Balanced (Bal) or single ended (SE) circuits are both included as standard. Volume control (with remote and OLED display) with volume-bypass function is also standard. The DAC is fully truly balanced from digital processing to output.
POSEIDON also has some luxury features like: exclusive flight case packing, Neutrik sockets, custom made Lampizator / Cynel premium silver solder, special high inductance chokes, gold pin tube sockets, Premium audio grade electrolytes in power supply, silver signal wiring in Teflon insulation, (where applicable, with silver screens), 0,1% and 1,0% metalfilm resistors.
Each DAC has a full solid slab CNC milled metal remote control handheld IR unit. We use exclusively ultra high end True Copper metal foil capacitors for series signal duties. Most of the DAC body is milled from slabs of solid aluminum 3/4 inch thick and the construction externally (visually) is almost screw-less.
Shipping weight is ca. 39 kg (79 lb) and waiting time - from order to shipping - 4 weeks.
ATTENTION: THIS DAC OFFERS ENDLESS POSSIBILITIES OF TUBE ROLLING, HOWEVER WE DO NOT PROVIDE SPARE TUBES FOR THAT PURPOSE. WE STOCK THE BEST TUBES WE CAN FIND FROM CURRENT PRODUCTION OR NOS STOCKS AND WE WILL SUPPLY THIS DAC WITH THE BEST TUBE SELECTION. HOWEVER DUE TO COVID, the UKRAINE WAR, TURBULENT TIMES IN THE INDUSTRY, SUPPLY CHAIN INTERRUPTIONS AND DEPLETED STOCKS WORLDWIDE, WE WILL NOT GIVE THE END USER THE CHOICE OF TUBES AND WE WILL SUPPLY OUR CHOICE.
OUR TUBE CHOICE IS BASED ON 2 YEARS OF LISTENING TO THE POSEIDON ON THE PROTOTYPING AND DEVELOPMENT STAGE.