Canary Audio KD-2000 Tube DSD DAC

Description

Canary Audio KD-2000 Tube DSD DAC

The KD-2000 Tube DSD D/A converter is specially designed for those who like to play their music digitally without sacrificing sound quality. Utilizing the very finest technologies and uncompromising design, the KD-2000 is capable in offering the widest DSD and PCM support with highest sampling rate.

The following is a quote statement from the full reveiw by Terry London, February 11, 2015:

“Canary Audio’s first attempt at an all-format tube-based DAC has turned out to be a great success. It offers great build quality, a robust power supply, and a tube-based analog conversion section that gets you the speed/transparency/details of digital sound while blending in the tonality/colors/image palpability of what tubes and analog have to offer. As far as I can tell, the KD-2000 does equal justice to Redbook CDs and high-resolution/DSD material, so it can play any music you have in your collection.”

Terry London, Staff Reviewer for hometheaterreview.com
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Also reviewed by Srajan Ebaen from 6moons.com (June 2015)
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Canary Audio KD-2000 Tube DSD DAC Features:

• Dual ESS SABRE ES9018 chip were used, one dedicated chip per channel, offering a true dual mono operation. Each ES9018 incorporates eight individual D/A converters in Dual Differential coupling for optimal performance.
• State of the art custom designed USB chip. The USB input is compatible with following audio formats via PC/MAC:
  • PCM: 44.1, 48, 88.2, 96, 176.4, 192, 352.8 and 384 kHz, up to 32 bits.
  • DSD64 and DSD128 via USB (DoP): 2.822, 3.072, 5.644 and 6.144 MHz.
• User selectable digital filters are available, making it possible to select the optimum sound quality to suit the individual piece of music:
  • Fast or slow finite impulse response (FIR) digital filter.
  • 50, 60, or 70 Hz Infinite Impulse Response (IIR) digital roll-off filter.
  • Digital phase-locked-loop (DPLL) filter.
• Sophisticated tube buffer section with the use of two carefully selected 6922 vacuum tubes.
• Built in volume control of a highly refined design with user adjustable volume level and left and right channel output level.
• Two fully isolated and separated power supplies for the analogue and digital sections.
• Dual audiophile grade custom wound toroidal transformers (epoxy potted) were employed, one per each channel. Additional EI transformer was used for tube buffer section.
• Six digital inputs are available:
  • 2 x Coaxial (S/PDIF).
  • 1 x I2S.
  • 1 x Optical (TOS-Link).
  • 1 x AES/EBU.
  • 1 x USB.
• Two high-quality analogue outputs:
  • 1 x symmetrical (XLR).
  • 1 x asymmetrical (RCA).
• Fully compatible with Apple IR remote control (not included).