a new concept from lampizator…

Balanced Tube DAC  (Premiere October  2020)

In our endless efforts to research and design DACs, we arrived at this breakthrough design. Combining everything we know about DAC designing, at an unbeatable value. Our goal was to get as close as we can to the Golden Gate sound, but at roughly 1/3 budget.

The resulting DAC positions itself with technology and sound between the Amber3 and the Golden Gate 2. This DAC is a big leap in sound quality over the Baltic 1.

We are very proud of this DAC, being worthy of our 10th anniversary in this industry and showing the best LampizatOr qualities at a slightly more affordable price point.

Greg Weaver's In-Depth Discussion of the Baltic 3 (Check out Episode 66!)

MAIN HIGHLIGTHS

Every unit is SE and Balanced at the same time, no need to configure the unit as balanced.
True balanced topology with four monophonic channels - one per each phase of stereo sound.
Engine #53a our best selling engine also with DSD256 on board
True Copper output capacitors
No volume control even as an option
4 digital inputs: USB, SPDIF, TOSLINK and AES/EBU in every DAC
New tube topology that redefines what is possible with tubes in the DAC
Fully tubed, directly heated dual diode rectified, CLC filtered anode power supply.


SPECIFICATIONS
PCM 384 kHz, DSD x256, fully balanced from input to output
Output impedance 200 ohm per phase
Output level: 2 Vpp (low gain) or 6 Vpp (hi gain) @0dB
Operating systems: USB input is compatible with Windows, Linux and MAC (the only limitation is that MAC plays max DSDx256)
Tube Compliment: 2 pieces of 5963 JAN (or ECC802), 2 pieces of 6N8PA, (or CV181-T or 6H8C or 6SN7GT) one rectifier DHD : 5U4G or 274B or 5C3S or 5Y3 or GZ37 or 5R4WGB.
Select colors: Front panel: charcoal, silver, champagne, white, red.
Top chassis: charcoal, white, red, at extra cost: real copper.
Front button: Blue, Orange/Amber, White, Red, Green
Extra cost: custom fit flight case, Copper top, premium tubes.