Neutron preamp/DAC

The Neutron preamplifier is a cutting edge design capable of handling multiple analogue and digital sources.

 

Provision is made for MM and MC cartridges via a high quality on board RIAA phono stage,  the preamp features four RCA analogue inputs and a pair of balanced  XLR inputs.

 

For flexibility each of the analogue inputs can be assigned as Home Theater bypass.

 

Within the digital world we cater for three S/PDIF optical inputs, three S/PDIF coaxial inputs and a USB input with conversion performed by carefully chosen low jitter ESS-Sabre DAC.

 

Audio can delivered to a power amplifier via either  XLR  or RCA terminals, for completeness we have also included two dedicated subwoofer outputs.

 

The super clean low noise circuit design is based on years of audio engineering experience, the circuit layout is optimised to minimise inter channel cross-talk and reduce distortion regardless of digital or analogue input selection. 

 

This ultra high quality design is also incredibly quiet allowing the Neutron to uncover low level musical details with absolute accuracy.

 

Specifications

Frequency response (pre-amp)

(20Hz-20kHz/100kHz) +0.0 to –0.01dB/–0.45dB

Distortion

(20Hz-20kHz; 0dBV/0dBFs) 0.00006-0.0004% / 0.0011-0.015%

Unbalance (RCA) inputs

4 x Line level inputs

Balanced (XLR) inputs

1 x XLR input

Phono stage type

MM / MC

Coax SPDIF 75 ohm digital inputs

3 x SPDIF >192kHz

Optical SPDIF

3 x Toslink >96kHz

USB

1 x asynchronous USB interface >192kHz

DAC type

1 x ESS Sabre 9018

Jitter

(USB at 48kHz/96kHz) <5psec / 20psec

Trigger output

Yes

Dimensions

440x109x325mm

Weight

5kg