Lampizator Atlantic 2 TRP, User Manual

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LampizatOr- ATLANTIC2 TRP DAC Manual
Introduction
Thank you for choosing Lampizator DAC. We created it with huge research effort to
deliver not only world class musical performance, rivalling the most expensive DACS
money can buy, but also to offer very long life of the product. Simply speaking – if you
adhere to some basic precautions listed below – the product should last a lifetime and
hopefully in this period – will never be outperformed by a competing product.
“Whose lifetime?” one might ask – well – let’s not go into details – enough to say it
should work flawlessly for the foreseeable future.
The DAC should be future-proof. Shall we ever launch a major upgrade to the digital
part – you can get the upgrade at very reasonable cost. Shall you decide you need
some added features – you can also get them at reasonable cost anytime in the future.
Be it AES/EBU input, Toslink input, BNC input, XLR outputs, volume control,
information status LEDs – any option you initially forgot.
We can’t be 100% sure, but it is extremely unlikely that the market and the industry in
the future will embark any technology of music storage faster than 192 kHz and with
more resolution that 24 bits. We already hit the human ear limits, not to mention the
real needs of mass consumers (MP3).
Data formats
The DAC is capable of automatic recognition of all sampling rates from 44 to 760 kHz
and bit rates from 16 to 32. Since few if any transports offering SPDIF format of the 192
kHz exist in the consumer market, it is hard to guarantee the operation but on the
professional ones which we tried – it worked. From our experience the transmitters of
SPDIF are incapable of making good square wave over 48 kHz, so if you play a 192
kHz file, be aware that on one hand you “play” more detailed data, but at the same time
your signal is waaay more distorted so at the end of the day for this reason alone it
may not be worth it to chase the hi-rez rabbit.
If you use USB connection, all our DACs will play up to 760kHz and 32 bits. This
theoretical limit does not imply that you need RECORDINGS of that resolution, which
don’t exist by the way, but that you can use up sampling to play regular files. We
however listen to all recordings at the resolution settings they were recorded.
By PCM files we mean all known file formats like: MP3, MP4, Aiff, Flac, WMA, WAV,
Ogg, and many more less known types. PCM abbreviation stands for pulse code
modulation.
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