Ypsilon Digital
CDT -100 is Ypsilon’s top loader cd player/transport. The transport’s primal objective is to retrieve data from the cd-disc with as much accuracy as possible. The laser head is extremely sensitive to vibrations so CDT-100 provides a rigid and resonant free construction.
The mechanism is mechanically modified and assembled within a massive construction of a sandwich of thick stainless steel and aluminum plates. In this way, the traditional box shaped chassis is avoided and along with that the associated resonance problems are greatly reduced.
The CDT 100 is a stand-alone product of high performance. It carries a Spdif out put so it can be linked to any outboard DAC. In addition, it includes:
One pair of RCA , analog connections , for use as a CD player.
One Neutric 5-pin analog current output for use with DAC-100.
We strongly recommend the use of the 5-pin output with DAC-100 for optimum performance. It is our belief that transmitting audio in the digital domain (SPDIF), has its imperfections and adds a certain character to the sound.
DAC 100 is our D to A converter. It is a non – oversampling, no upsampling design with multi – bit dac chips. The carefully designed power supply is with shunt regulators. I / V conversion is done by a specially designed, built in house, transformer. Τhe analog stage uses single-ended class A transformer coupled triodes with valve rectification and choke regulation .
All transformers are designed and built in house using the best available materials and are wound with sophisticated techniques for a totally transparent sound.
The transformers are of enormous size in order to achieve the absolute performance we seek.
We believe that DAC – 100 reaches limits of digital reproduction and can rival only even analogue sources.
The DAC-100 D/A converter is also 24bit/192Khz capable used in high resolution digital sources.
The DAC1000 and DAC1000SE are no oversampling digital to analog converters. They have 6 inputs, Coax,BNC,AES and Optical capable of PCM 24/192 and USB and I2S through HDMI connector capable of PCM 24/384. The USB can accept also DSD music files from a computer or server up to DSD256 and convert them natively without converting to PCM.
The PCM converter is made in house with discrete fast logic and resistors that comprise the R2R network. In the DAC1000 high tolerance low drift Vishay metal film resistors are used and in the SE version custom made naked foil types are used.
The analog section is made with a single ended, triode operated, Siemens tube ( one per channel). Coupling between the converters and the tube is done with an in-house made ‘wire capacitor’ keeping this way the signal path as pure as possible.
The tube is transformer coupled to the output offering very low output impedance (30 ohm).
The power supply uses a rectifier tube and power supply inductor for a quiet and low noise high voltage to the tubes.
All functions are displayed in an LCD display and controlled also with a remote control.