The Musician Aquarius is a massive high-end DAC with a remarkable design, capable of delivering incredibly pure and rich sound.

Taking advantage of a symmetrical R2R architecture, each channel is equipped with an independent high-speed FPGA to control the decoding, with four 0.005% R2R networks. Thus, linear errors are very low and decoding speed is high, with extremely low digital noise. It also ensures very low distortion and noise.

A particularly complete connectivity

The Musician Aquarius is equipped with a wide range of connectors to meet all needs and all types of integrations. On the digital input side, we find I2S via HDMI, USB-B, balanced AES, Coaxial and Toslink Optical. The output is made, with the choice, in asymmetrical RCA or balanced XLR.

High-end components

The powerful Aquarius is capable of fast and efficient processing of digital data, thanks to an Altera Cyclone IV FPGA and a high-performance ARM STM32F446 CPU. Two oscillators allow the restoration of audio signals with different sampling rates, to significantly reduce jitter while improving stability.

Pinout I2S

The Musician Aquarius has been designed to offer broad compatibility via its I2S input, with phase adjustment accessible as follows:

1. Select the I2S-A1 or I2S-A2 input.
2. Press and hold the NOS button for 3 seconds until the I2S indicator light flashes.
3. Press the PHASE button to navigate through the 8 phase modes.
4. The Aquarius will automatically exit this setup menu after 5 seconds of inactivity.