Gadgetory

hi I'm jabon Littlefield I'm with my tech digital and we're here at the Capitol audio fest 2014 I am showing our hifi line if you will there's our classic tried and true stereo 192 DSD deck and we've had a great deal of success since we launched it we've sold more than 3,000 of them now it was the first affordable DST DAC on the market and it's been loved and admired by many impressive people but today we have a good fortune to show our working prototype right before a final launch of the new Manhattan this is our reference headphone DAC preamplifier it's designed to basically be the center of your listening world in a lot of ways it has features that take from everything we've learned about the stereo 192 DSD DAC and upgraded both the sound and features it has about twice the power on the headphone amplifier and a lower impedance we use our own proprietary circuit and we've been working on it for quite a while and I think it's quite impressive and the Manhattans been like designed from kind of like input to output to be like so much stronger and better at the very input from your main power there is a power conditioner that feeds our dual isolated power supplies one for the analog stage and one for the digital stage into the board we now have we had more space so we utilize that to tighten up our digital section we've upgraded it with a new femto clock that actually has lower noise and cleaner consistency this really helps our digital stages which we've worked with for over 20 years we one of the first companies to actually work with analog-to-digital converters period this goes into a much more upgraded digital routing section the preamplifier section of the Manhattan is vastly expanded it still includes firewire USB to USB one spit if a ES and toslink in addition now as standard it has estephe inputs for more professional and esoteric DSD input only sources from like a tascam as well as modified sa CD players and then we have now three analog input stages there is a balanced input stage and to unbalanced input stages but that leads us into our options for the Manhattan and coming in quarter one of 2015 we're going to be releasing a phone a preamp card that's both moving magnet and moving coil and this will be a user installable very simple but have the same excellent pedigree of Sonics that we've always tried to achieve in addition to that we have the option for an optical estephe input which will allow for sacd transports that are compatible with emm labs Meitner and playback designs I think this is going to be a very special box the sonic signature of it is something just a great step forward than what we've already been doing it's taken about two years of development and we're really happy with it it's a beautiful design it's a steel enclosure wrapped in aluminum and that helps to eliminate noise as well as look beautiful I hope to hear great things from the world and thanks for watching