The Odéon-Pt premieres our Platinum line of FlagShip products bringing you our best "Savoir Faire" (know how) in this ultimate DAC. Building on the legacy of our highly successful line of DACs, the Odéon-Pt is our new innovative, state of the art DAC / DSP both in terms of sonic performance, visual delight and functionality. The Odéon-Pt yields two slots inside for optional upgrade add-on daughter boards. The first slot can hold an RIAA MC/MM Phono preamplifier for analog Input-3. The second slot can hold a DSP add-on board to support firewire IEEE1394 digital input for multi-channel support. As a DAC and Pre-Amplifier, the Odéon-Pt is the perfect center piece for a top of the line 2 channel audio system.
Digital and Analog Inputs
Besides being our best DAC with 5 digital inputs and one optional add-on firewire, the Odéon Platinum DAC also sports 3 asymmetric analog inputs completely eliminating the need for a pre-amplifier in your system. In fact, analog input 3 can be converted to a RIAA Phono MC/MM preamplifier with an optional addon board so you can even enjoy your vynils.Custom Motorized Volume
Modern technologies have advantages but there are no modern substitutes for a good potentiometer. There are no four quadrant multipliers, no relay arrays, and certainly no digital volume circuits that can provide the same sonic transparancy of our custom design motorized potentiometer. The Platinum is our flagship because of its carefuly engineered clever design, packing the best of new and old technologies, used exactly where they shine to provide the best possible sound. Everything is as it should be. The only criticism we have had is the cost. This being said, we are still proud to provide you with this state of the art piece at this cost for after all, we did not cut any corners and, other manufacturers still have no shame charging far more twice its cost for undeniably inferior products.High Quality Design
The platinum sports all our principles of Styling and Quality. The Platinum is not simply stylish modern design with stainless steel columns and dome, 1/2" saphire glass and marble/granite custom base. It sports our best technical knowledge including multiple distributed over sized power supplies, and state of the art surface mount with shortest possible signal path.
New Solid-TubeTM Sound
The Odéon-Pt also features a new generation of our famous Solid-TubeTM technology output stages, which is a combination of bipolar and mosfet transistors matched and assembled to only extract the best linear characteristics of their technologies. Along with our signature matched digital filter which guarantees a zero phase shift at 20KHz, this combination yields the same transparent and neutral restitution that we are famous for along with a even wider and bigger sound stage than ever before.New Re-Clocker
The Odéon-Pt includes our new 220 re-clocker technology as a standard feature. Thanks to the ever shrinking silicon, this re-clocker is capable of interpolating the input signal to 220, re-creating over one million data points for every sample. The result is an incredible acuracy for a virtually jitter-free performance. The Odéon-Pt will not only deliver the finest performance from high-resolution audio sources but it will also bring your current CD collection to 24bits, recreating an incredible level of detail.Localized Power Supplies
Loyal to our design practices, the Odéon-Pt stars two oversized toroidal transformers to power the Digital and Analog spaces. Both transformers provide for 6 distinct regulated power sources with a multitude of filters to provide a grand total of 19 distributed power circuits required to run the unit. From highly efficient 1.5MHz switched power supplies for low loss digital processing, to distributed low-noise linear regulators for the analog circuits; the Pt certainly puts the best of new and old technologies at work.Balanced outputs
Due to popular demand, we decided to include Balanced outputs to the Odéon-Pt. Not only these are true Balanced outputs but they are also controlled by the high-performance quad gang volume potentiometer allowing for direct connection to Amplified Speakers such as studios monitors.