HIFI PIG ADVERTISING PROMOTION

Hifi Pig brings you a series of promotional articles about the essential brands to have on your ‘go visit’ list at High End Munich 2019. Read on for more about their philosophy, their products and, of course, where they will be at this year’s High End and Hifi Deluxe Shows.

This year Totaldac will not be at the Munich High End show itself, but will at the Munich Hifi Deluxe show in the Marriott hotel, Berliner Strasse 93…

Totaldac will, as always, demo their DACs, but now Totaldac offers also the full electronic stack, from the digital source to the power amplifier.

The demo system will be composed of:

Totaldac d1-player server/NAS

Totaldac RoonReady d1-streamer and reclocker

Totaldac d1-twelve-mk2 DAC

Totaladc one-box “live-power” power supply

Totaldac d1-driver, a volume-free preamp

Totaldac/Bibacord AES-EBU cables

Totaldac USB GIGAFILTER and ethernet cable/filters

The new Totaldac Amp-1 power amplifier

Magico M6 speakers

Echole Limited Edition interconnect cables and speaker

Shunyata Hydra Triton V3 power distributor and Sigma NR power cords for the digital components

Totaldac will be in living-room level 1

Entrance to the Hifi Deluxe show is free and the opening times are:

9th May, 12:00 to 20:00

10th May, 12:00 to 20:00

11th May, 12:00 to 18:00

A Totaldac source will be used in two other rooms at Hifi Deluxe. With Camerton / Holton in room 526 and Askja Audio in Studio 6 .

Totaldac Amp-1 preliminary specs:

Stereo power amplifier

Zero global feedback

Fully discrete design

Triode main stage and solid state output

Class AB with medium level of class A for moderate power consumption and for moderate heat in the room

2500VA, 26kg LIVE-POWER transformer with separate windings for left and right channel

Designed on Magico M6 and on a 105dB large coax horn system

Low noise truly tested on very high efficiency speakers

RCA inputs

Largest Mundorf binding posts

2*160W under 8ohm

2*300W under 4ohm

2*500W under 2ohm

Stable under 1ohm

28dB gain

1.5V sensitivity

47Kohm input impedance (compatible with tube preamp)

Frequency bandwidth at -3dB: 0.06Hz to 120KHz

Distortion: 0.05% at 20W

Power consumption when music level is low: 160W

250mm height including feet

483mm width

453mm depth including connectors

54kg weight

Totaldac’s DAC product line:

d1-core: The entry level but still with Totaldac sound and perfect tonal balance. Universal 3V RCA and 6V XLR outputs, and like all other DACs with volume control.

d1-single-mk2: The first released DAC. 3V RCA outputs, with high current class A output stage and headphone output.

d1-tube-mk2: The only DAC with tube output stage. Based on two R2R ladders per channel. 1.4V RCA outputs.

d1-six: Based on 3 R2R ladders per channel, with 2.5V RCA and 5V XLR outputs. High current class A output stage with headphone output.

d1-seven: Based on 3 R2R ladders per channel, 3.2V RCA and 6.4V XLR outputs. Lots of optimisations compared to d1-six for the 7th anniversary of Totaldac.

d1-direct: 1.6V RCA outputs direct from 3 R2R ladders thank to new filtering and offset circuitry. Based on d1-seven with d1-twelve direct output, not so versatile but so transparent sounding.

d1-twelve-mk2: Made of 3 boxes: one digital front end and 2 DAC monoblocs. 6 R2R ladders per channel. 1.6V RCA output direct from R2R ladders as well as 3.2V RCA (6.4V XLR) buffered output.

d3-core: This is the 3-way active crossover based on the d1-core DAC. A 2-way active crossover is also available, called d2-core.

Totaldac’s products with digital outputs:

d1-digital reclocker: Rebuilds all 4 inputs into a coax and AES-EBU output with less jitter. Can also apply volume control and convert DSD to pcm 176/24 if required.

streamer board: A computer board with ethernet input which can be mounted in a DACs or reclocker. Compatible with RoonReady, UPNP/DLNA, Airplay, NAA.

d1-streamer: It is the reclocker also equipped with the streamer board and a GIGAFILTER. So it is a streamer with USB, coax and AES-EBU outputs.

d1-player: Stores your music files and runs Roon core or a UPNP edia-server.

Network output to a RoonReady device or a UPNP streamer.

Analogue product line:

d1-driver: Connected between a DAC and the amplifier to perfectly drive the amplifier. Like a high end preamplifier but relying on the DAC volume control.

AMP-1: The Totaldac amplifier. Tube qualities and able to drive 1ohm speakers.