Prism Sound DA-1 is a professional 24-bit digital to analogue converter developed to provide ultimate-quality monitoring for recording, mastering and broadcast applications. Designed to deliver exceptional transparency and accuracy, the Prism Sound DA-1 focuses on precise digital to analogue conversion supported by highly stable clocking and carefully engineered analogue output stages. Its design places particular emphasis on maintaining signal integrity in demanding professional environments where reliable monitoring is essential.
A defining characteristic of the Prism Sound DA-1 is its ability to minimise the audible effects of jitter. The converter employs an exceptionally stable phase-locked loop with high jitter attenuation, ensuring accurate clock recovery from a wide range of digital sources. In addition, the Prism Sound DA-1 offers a dedicated master clock mode, in which the influence of incoming clock jitter is eliminated completely. The unit’s digital outputs can also provide a de-jittered digital feed-through, allowing clean and reliable digital transfers to downstream devices.
The Prism Sound DA-1 is designed to integrate easily into complex digital audio systems. Its straightforward synchronisation behaviour makes it particularly suitable for installations where digital processors are cascaded or where system configurations are frequently changed, such as studios using digital switchers. This flexibility allows the Prism Sound DA-1 to serve not only as a reference monitoring converter but also as a stable anchor point within evolving digital signal chains.
The analogue output stage of the Prism Sound DA-1 is deliberately simple yet highly refined. Outputs are fully floating, electronically balanced and transformerless, minimising noise pickup and preserving low-level detail. Precision attenuators provide a wide operating range, covering both professional and consumer voltage levels with very fine adjustment resolution. This allows accurate level matching across a broad range of monitoring systems without compromising audio quality.
Measured performance confirms the Prism Sound DA-1’s reference-grade intent. Dynamic range exceeds 115 dB A-weighted, with extremely low distortion, excellent channel matching and negligible idle noise. Frequency response is flat across the audible band, and inter-channel phase deviation is kept extremely low, supporting stable stereo imaging and accurate spatial reproduction. These attributes established the Prism Sound Dream DA-1 as a trusted monitoring converter in professional studios and mastering facilities.
Features
- Professional 24-bit digital to analogue conversion
- Exceptionally stable clock generation and recovery with high jitter attenuation
- Master clock mode to eliminate incoming clock jitter effects
- De-jittered digital feed-through via digital outputs
- Fully floating, electronically balanced, transformerless analogue outputs
- Precision analogue output level adjustment for professional and consumer systems
- Easy synchronisation in complex and frequently reconfigured digital systems
- Multiple professional and consumer digital input and output formats