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Description
The 8 XP d is our most popular integrated amplifier. It combines our latest ‘XP’ series preamplifier with a newly revised 2 x 70 watt power amp, and contains an onboard DAC, so it can accept a wide range of both analogue and digital inputs. This includes a USB digital feed. The USB input has been designed so that the 8 XP d appears automatically as a sound card to an attached computer. This allows any music files on the computer to be easily played back directly through the high performance DACs in your Cyrus system.
The 8 XP d features customised input naming and input sensitivity level setting (so the CD can play at the same volume as the tuner or iPod when you switch inputs mid music). It also has twin speaker outputs for bi-wiring, and a pre-amp out for bi-amping, and a zone 2 output, which allows two listeners to enjoy different sources of music in different rooms.
The 8 XP d will also integrate with the AV Master 8.0 to provide a 5.1 channel system.
The 8 XP d can be upgraded, either with the addition of a PSX-R, or by adding a higher performance Qx DAC upgrade, enabling play back performance of files stored on a computer to be boosted to almost Cyrus CD quality.
This exceptionally high performance integrated amplifier offers tremendous flexibility. Capable of producing high performance audio from a variety of analogue, digital or PC sources, it is likely to be indispensable to serious music lovers.
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More Details
Why does and Amp need an on board DAC?
In order to turn a digital source music file (such as a track on a CD, a song on your iPod, a track on your music server, or something you have recorded on your computer) into rapturous music, there are two key steps at the beginning of the chain. The first is to turn the file accurately into a stream of 0s and 1s than can be fed electronically into your system. This is something that our SE range of CD players does exceptionally well. The second step is to turn that stream of 0s and 1s into an analogue wave form, which can be used to drive a loudspeaker. This second step is carried out by a Digital to Analogue converter or DAC for short.
The world is full of DACs, you computer has one, your iPod has one, your CD boom box has one, you mobile phone has one, your Xbox has one, etc. Any device that is turning a digital file into something you can hear requires a DAC. Clearly then there are different levels of DAC, that cost vastly different amounts, and produce vastly different quality of results.
Through its many years of CD and audio development, Cyrus knows a great deal about DACs, and unless you have already invested large sums of money in separate DACs for a high end hi fi system, the DAC in our XP d range of amplifiers will be a vast improvement on any of the much cheaper DACs in any of the aforementioned devices. So if you intending to play your iPod, your Xbox, or the iTunes library on your PC or Mac, through your Hi Fi, you will get a far superior result if you bypass the inferior DAC in the device, and feed the digital stream directly into the DAC in you XP d amplifier.
So an XP d amplifier will enable you to improve the sound you get from any digital source. If you have a media server system, such as Sqeezebox, Logitech, or Sonos devices, which distribute digital music files around the home, you can get an immediate uplift in sound quality by plugging the digital output directly into a Cyrus XP d amplifier.
And if that is not enough, you can always send you amplifier back to the factory and have it upgraded to Qx DAC spec.
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