Chord Electronics Quartet DAC
The Quartet joins Chord's Choral range at Joenit
You have a DAVE and you thought that was where it ended. The Quartet is what Chord thought of next: not a new converter, but a box in front of your converter, rebuilding the waveform between the samples with a filter of four million taps — DAVE itself has 164,000. All that arithmetic buys one thing, and you hear it first on a drum kit or a guitar string: the attack of every note arrives at the moment it should, not a whisper before or after. There is an analogue input too: your turntable can go through the same mill. The power supply lives in its own case, on the mains but as quiet as a battery. Without a Chord converter behind it, it makes no sound, and it is two boxes on your rack.
Specifications
| Pulse array | Integrated Pulse Array ADC with advanced decimation filtering, for analogue sources |
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| Tap length | 4,000,000 taps |
| Processing power | 5x Xilinx FPGA; 3,700 DSP cores; over 2 million lines of code |
| PCM support | Maximum resolution 768kHz |
| Digital filters | Blackbird WTA (Watts Transient Aligned) filter |
| Latency | Programmable, 10 milliseconds to 3 seconds |
| Inputs | 2x RCA |
| Digital inputs | 2x BNC (or dual BNC); 2x Optical; 1x USB-B (galvanically isolated) |
| Digital outputs | 1x Optical 192kHz; 1x S/PDIF; 2x Dual BNC 768kHz output |
| Equalisation range | 108-bit lossless digital EQ; ten-shelf system; +/- 18 dB |
| Power consumption | Full power - 130 W; Standby - 20 W |
| Dimensions | 7.8cm (H) 33.5cm (W) 15.2cm (D) - also applies to the power supply |
| Weight | 3kg; PSU 3.2kg |
| Finishes | Black and Silver |
Where to listen
Every model is sold and demonstrated through Joenit's authorized dealer network in the Benelux. Find your nearest dealer to hear it for yourself.
