Harmonia Audio carries the Zero-One Family
of CD players from Daniels Audio. Their design philosophy
can be heard in these players. Daniels Audio offers two versions,
the Epsilon or the Omega grades. Both are available as single
disc or five disc player. The latter represents one of the
true audiophile grade multi-carousel CD players out there.
The Zero-One Family of CD Players launches a new era in digital
sound reproduction. Combining true CD coupling an advanced analog
filter ensures not only accurate frequency response, but also superior
phase coherence. This results in the music preserving its
original dynamics, dimensionality and openness. In addition,
voices and instruments retain their proper timbre. The high-frequency
glare (bite), which has been a typical digital signature, is eliminated.
The mid-bass boom and low frequency muddiness which mars many
high-end converters also disappears. Furthermore, analog
dithering helps to reproduce the smallest signals with uncanny accuracy.
The use of a dedicated analog power supply together with the filter's
superior stopband rejection (>120 dB) frees the analog signal
of any digital noise and allows all of the music's nuances to be
perceived.
The ability of the Zero-One players to preserve low-level information
combined with unprecedented phase and amplitude accuracy allow them
to reach levels which until now were thought unattainable by the
CD format. When compared to other CD players (regardless of
price), the sound stage, resolution, detail, timbre, and frequency
extension are unparalleled. It combines many of the strengths
thought to belong exclusively to the analog domain (low level resolution,
sense of realism, and openness) with the known strengths of the
digital format.
The Zero-One CD players are a complete package including CD transport,
digital-to-analog converter (D/A), and high-resolution phase-coherent
analog filter. This eliminates the need for a separate transport,
D/A, and the associated interconnect, while providing sound superior
to separates at a fraction of their cost. All of the CD players
include a remote control.
These must be heard to be believed.
Features
- 4-pole linear-phase analog low-pass filter
- DC coupled analog section
- Regulated analog power supply with split-bobbin power transformer
- Separate digital power supply (including transformer)
- Phillips 192x oversampling bitstream A/D Converter
- Phillips CDM 12 Transport
- Precision metal film resistors and polystyrene capacitors throughout
analog section
- Gold-plated RCA jacks with Teflon dielectric
Specifications
| Frequency response |
DC - 20KHz: +0 -0.2 dB |
| Channel unbalance |
DC - 20KHz: <0.1 dB |
| Phase linearity |
DC - 20KHz: +/-0.1 degree max |
| Interchannel delay |
2.83 +/- 0.03 microseconds |
| Signal to noise ratio |
>100 dB @ 1KHz |
| DC offset drift |
<60 microV/degree C |
| DC offset |
+/- 500 microV
(after 45 sec. warm-up) |
| Output level |
2 V rms |
| Output Impedance |
<450 ohms |
| Preamp input impedance |
>10,000 ohms |
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