If you want to enjoy music from a digital source, like a CD, DVD player or computer, you need to first convert it from digital information to analog information. That is the function of the digital to analog converter, or DAC for short. DAC’s are the cornerstone of all modern digital equipment. Many CD players and DVD players have built in DAC’s, but these are rarely as good as the best outboard DAC’s. PS Audio’s new Digital Link III is perhaps one of the finest sounding DAC’s on the market today at any price and clearly superior to any built in D to A converter we have auditioned.
“Displays a sweetness and warmth..” These are words not typically associated with digital audio, yet PS Audio’s new DLIII helps any digitally recorded medium sound warm, open and spacious. Our Beta Testers reported the DLIII to be “the warmest digital device we’ve ever heard, with a top end like that of analogue”. While everyone is talking about multi-channel audio, Blue Ray, High Def this and high Def that, the truth is 99% of our customers still have huge CD collections that would benefit from the finest of players and DAC’s. Our customers have been hounding us to “do it again” and we’ve responded with the introduction of the DLIII.
Features
- Stereo D to A converter
- Optical input
- Coaxial input
- USB input
- 24 bit DAC
- Front panel select 192kHz
- XLR and RCA outputs
- 192kHz upsample circuitry
- 8 times oversampling filter
- Single stage IV converter
- Discrete FET output stage
Benefits
- Plays just about anything
- Upsamples 44kHz to 192kHz
- CD, DVD player or computer
- Warmest sound DAC ever
- Subterranean bass response
- Sweet open top end
- Fully balanced
- Low noise
