Announcement: Allnic's New "Signature" OTL/OCL DAC: D-15,000

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The D-15000 OTL/OCL Signature is a world-class, reference level DAC. It offers unbelievably realistic, holographic sound-staging combined with incredible resolution, clarity, micro-dynamics, and drive. Instrument and vocal tones and timbres are breathtakingly lifelike, and the placement of instruments and bodies in three dimensions startling, life-size, and addictive.

The D-15000 OTL/OCL Signature has no voice of its own, none. It is silent, except for the music emanating from the blackest of backgrounds. As a result, the D-15000 OTL/OCL Signature DAC is very sensitive to the quality of recordings, upstream components, cables, and first and second gain stage output vacuum tubes. D-15000 OTL/OCL is intentionally engineered with no oversampling, conversions, or filtering, yet processes a broad range of information in native format.

Finally, the stunningly realistic sonic quality is matched by the D-15000 OTL/OCL Signature’s industrial design, the classical elegance, flexibility, and ergonomic functionality of its casework and connection options.

The D-15000 OTL/OCL Signature is truly a masterpiece and is Allnic Audio’s top DAC.



Allnic's Flagship DAC is available now. Locate your regional representative here: Allnic's Distribution Network MPSP: $24,000 USD.

For further technical details, please download the D-15,000 OTL/OCL Manual linked below. For all current manual publications (and yes, there are revisions often) and other supplemental information, please click here: Allnic Current Manuals

 

[marty]

Looks like an interesting product. I would suggest that although the manual characterizes the unit as "exceptionally quiet", its S/N of 86dB spec hardly supports that. Reasonably quiet? Yes. Other tube DACs such as the Nagra Reference have an S/N of 120dB and are thus more deserving of an "exceptionally quiet" moniker.

 

[ketcham]

S/N is excellent. In real use, D-15,000 to L-8000 DHT to A-5000 DHT to 100 dB sensitive speakers with ear to speaker - no noise. Remarkable for such a signal path.

 

[DasguteOhr]

Looks like an interesting product. I would suggest that although the manual characterizes the unit as "exceptionally quiet", its S/N of 86dB spec hardly supports that. Reasonably quiet? Yes. Other tube DACs such as the Nagra Reference have an S/N of 120dB and are thus more deserving of an "exceptionally quiet" moniker.

It uses no capacitors or transformers in the output stage. The Nagra is full of them. Is the new Nagra DAC an upsampling DAC, too, like the HD DAC?

 

[paul79]

S/N is a consideration, but if one applies this spec to perceived blackness in the background of music, there are many other things that are important to achieve this. Not just S/N.