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Post by KeithL on Apr 17, 2023 11:12:02 GMT -5
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Post by KeithL on Apr 21, 2023 12:38:59 GMT -5
XDA-3_User_Manual_v12.pdf (2.22 MB)Announcing the new Emotiva XDA-3 Differential Reference DAC
Since we've already shown this at Axpona many of the details aren't exactly a secret.
Therefore, I'm going to mention a few of the highlights here, and I'm attaching a copy of the manual, which includes full details and specs.
The XDA-3 is a full sized audio component that will fit in your rack with your other audio components.
It has a nice big display, buttons on the front that actually click when you press them, and a real heavy solid metal remote control (also with buttons that click).
And you can go straight to the input you want by pressing one button on the remote.
The XDA-3 will work great either as a DAC (source component) or as a Preamp / Control Center.
It has plenty of digital inputs, but it also has both balanced and unbalanced analog inputs, and an analog ladder network Volume control.
And both balanced and unbalanced outputs - which can drive your power amp directly if you use it as a preamp.
The XDA-3 also has an HDMI-ARC audio input.
You can use this to play high quality music or movies from your TV to your stereo system through the XDA-3.
The XDA-3 also has a really nice high performance headphone amp.
We use the Texas Instruments TPA6120A2 amp chip, which is a current-feedback Class A/B headphone amp, with crazy-good THD, S/N, and dynamic range specs.
The XDA-3 uses the ESS ES9038Q2M SABRE Reference DAC chip.
This is one of the latest Sabre chips and features their Hyperstream DAC architecture and their Time Doman Jitter Eliminator.
It delivers really great performance, sounds really good, and we've implemented it properly
(so it doesn't have any of the harshness or graininess that some other Sabre DAC implementations we've heard are known for).
It supports stereo PCM audio up to 32/768k via USB (so it will play pretty much any PCM audio you can find to feed it).
Its USB input also supports DoP (up to DSD256) and native DSD (up to DSD512).
You get your choice of seven user-selectable oversampling filters on the DAC (and you can cycle through them with one button on the remote).
The XDA-3 has both balanced and unbalanced analog outputs.
The XDA-3 also has separate balanced and unbalanced stereo analog inputs.
The balanced inputs and outputs both use standard full-sized XLR connectors.
With digital sources you're getting a fully balanced signal path from the DAC chip to the balanced output.
With balanced analog inputs you're getting a fully balanced pure analog signal path to the output.
And the unbalanced outputs are derived properly from the balanced output signal.
(And remember that the Volume control itself is a digitally controlled analog ladder network.)
Since it's a full-sized audio component the XDA-3 has a high quality internal AC power supply.
So there's no wall wart to find a place for... or to worry about upgrading later.
And you won't need to worry about USB ground or power supply noise.
And it even has a Trigger Input and a Trigger Output.
You can find more details in the manual... here:
XDA-3_User_Manual_v12.pdf (2.22 MB)
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Post by KeithL on Jun 7, 2023 9:36:58 GMT -5
Just though I'd drop a brief update here...
We expect to go into production in about a week...
So these should be available quite shortly...
Get ready!...
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Post by KeithL on Jul 31, 2023 13:02:31 GMT -5
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