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Description
The Cyrus Pre XP d is a preamplifier based on circuitry we developed for our range topping DAC XP but with a more affordable DAC stage. The digital inputs can accept a wide range of inputs including USB digital feeds. The USB input has been designed so that the Pre XP d appears automatically as a sound card to an attached computer, enabling any music files to be easily played back directly through the high performance DACs in your Cyrus system.
The Pre XP d also features customised input naming, input sensitivity level setting, twin Pre-amp outputs for bi-amping, intelligent headphone facility and a zone 2 output.
The Pre XP d can be upgraded, either with the addition of a PSX-R, or by adding a higher performance Qx DAC upgrade to enable play back performance of files stored on a computer to be boosted to almost Cyrus CD quality.
The Pre XP d is the first step on the Cyrus Pre-Power ladder. Whilst maintaining all the flexibility of the integrated amp, the sonic benefits of moving to a two box system, are well proven.
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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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