Sound Magic Announces Serenade Pro, a portable reference grade DAC/Audio interface supports 32Bit/384KHz and DSD
By HC News |
Serenade Pro utilizes a Reference Grade Digital to Analog Converter which has a Dynamic Range of 123dB and THD+N of -105dB, which is rarely seen in this price range. In order to achieve this superb sound quality, Serenade Pro applies Minimum Path, 32Bit DAC Architecture and Jitter Elimination Circuit.
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Minimum Path: This technology uses the shortest possible signal path for your audio creating an extremely efficient circuit, lowering the possibilty of distortion and reducing jitter.
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32bit DAC Architecture: Compared to the more commonly used 24bit technology, 32bit processing inside Serenade Pro's DAC brings lower distortion and noise, a purer sound with less artifacts.
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Jitter Elimination Circuit: Our Dual Oscillator design further reduces jitter by providing a more accurate clock source.
Our design philosophy with our entry level audio interface is to focus on the most important feature: sound quality. With an open, warm and transparent sound with an amazing balance between bass, mid and high frequency, you can be sure your sound quality is good enough - detailed enough - to survive in today's demanding market. In order to achieve superb sound quality at an affordable price, we even have to cut the Analog to Digital function. Since a lot of musicians frequently use headphones, we have carefully designed a high quality headphone amplifier for Serenade.
We commonly see some high-end audio interfaces support a resolution and sample rate at 24 Bit/192KHz, which is the standard of digital audio these days. But Serenade Pro aims at the future and supports playback at 32 Bit/384KHz, which also covers the newest DXD (Digital Extreme Definition) format at 24 Bit/352.8KHz. Serenade Pro supports the DSD format invented by Sony and Philips, which has been used on SACD for years. Serenade Pro fully supports 4 kinds of DSD with Native playback:
1. DSD64 (2.8MHz)
2. DSD128 (5.6MHz)
3. DSD256 (11.2MHz)
4. DSD512 (22.4MHz).
With this extended support of high resolution audio, Serenade Pro will greatly enhance your music listening experience.
Serenade Pro has been from the ground up to be portable (with a small size of 12cm*12cm*3cm)- and it can be directly powered from a USB port. This makes Serenade Pro ideal for working with laptops. Despite it's small footprint, we've made sure to include a high-performance headphone amp with a crosstalk of over 120dB and an ouput power of 300mV.
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True Balanced Headphone Amplifier Technology: In order to achieve a superb performance for our Headphone Amplifier we've included True Balanced Headphone Amplifier Technology that gets it's balance output signal directly form the DAC, avoiding distortion and bass and high frequency loss caused by extra circuitry. We also use separate amp chips on the left and right channels.
Serenade Pro portable dac/audio interface will officially release and available on the market (Amazon, and etc) at the beginning of December, 2014. Its MSRP is $299.
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