Collection
Quinta Goddesses Five Classic-Chip DACs
Five DACs on vintage chips, the five versions of the Reference Tube DAC, with natural timbres.
Five voices
Five classic chips, one chassis
One chassis built around one of five classic DAC chips — four multibit ones and the vintage Philips TDA1547, a bitstream chip — each with its own name.
Calliope · Persephone · Aphrodite · Artemis · Katerina
Five characters
Calliope is natural and organic, Persephone fast, Aphrodite dark and velvety, Artemis large-scale, Katerina strong in bass and attack.
Red Book
No upsampling, no DSD
CD-standard 16-bit / 44.1 kHz PCM, taken natively, with every resource put into rendering it as it is.
Hardwood and metal
A tube stage, if you wish
The chassis combines hardwood and metal. The stock output stage is solid-state; the optional tube output stage takes the digital edge off the signal.
About the collection
Quinta Goddesses: the Reference Tube DAC in five versions, on the multibit TDA1540, TDA1541, PCM63 or PCM1704, or on the vintage TDA1547 DAC chip.
Quinta Goddesses, the five goddesses, refers to five DACs: the five versions of the Reference Tube DAC.
Goddesses, because the chips these DACs are built on go back a long way, to the vintage era.
Their architectures differ: four are multibit converters, the Philips TDA1540 and TDA1541 and the Burr-Brown PCM63 and PCM1704; the fifth, the Philips TDA1547, is a bitstream chip.
Not every one of their names belongs to a goddess, linguistically speaking; the name of the collection stands for all five.
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Calliope
DAC
natural, organic presentation
- DAC chip
- Philips TDA1540
- Type
- Multibit NOS
from $18,100
Persephone
DAC
fast, articulate presentation
- DAC chip
- Philips TDA1541
- Type
- Multibit NOS
from $18,100
Aphrodite
DAC
dark, velvety and melodic
- DAC chip
- Philips TDA1547
- Type
- Vintage DAC chip
from $18,100
Artemis
DAC
large-scale, weighty presentation
- DAC chip
- Burr-Brown PCM63
- Type
- Multibit NOS
from $18,100
Katerina
DAC
strong bass, detail and attack
- DAC chip
- Burr-Brown PCM1704
- Type
- Multibit NOS
from $18,100
Five voices
Calliope
natural, organic presentation
- DAC chip
- Philips TDA1540
- Type
- Multibit NOS
- PCM up to
- 16-bit / 44.1 kHz
from $18,100
Discover
Persephone
fast, articulate presentation
- DAC chip
- Philips TDA1541
- Type
- Multibit NOS
- PCM up to
- 16-bit / 44.1 kHz
from $18,100
Discover
Aphrodite
dark, velvety and melodic
- DAC chip
- Philips TDA1547
- Type
- Vintage DAC chip
- PCM up to
- 16-bit / 44.1 kHz
from $18,100
Discover
Artemis
large-scale, weighty presentation
- DAC chip
- Burr-Brown PCM63
- Type
- Multibit NOS
- PCM up to
- 16-bit / 44.1 kHz
from $18,100
Discover
Katerina
strong bass, detail and attack
- DAC chip
- Burr-Brown PCM1704
- Type
- Multibit NOS
- PCM up to
- 16-bit / 44.1 kHz
from $18,100
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Demograf Audio
Calliope
natural, organic presentation
- DAC chip
- Philips TDA1540
- Type
- Multibit NOS
- PCM up to
- 16-bit / 44.1 kHz
from $18,100
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Demograf Audio
Persephone
fast, articulate presentation
- DAC chip
- Philips TDA1541
- Type
- Multibit NOS
- PCM up to
- 16-bit / 44.1 kHz
from $18,100
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Demograf Audio
Aphrodite
dark, velvety and melodic
- DAC chip
- Philips TDA1547
- Type
- Vintage DAC chip
- PCM up to
- 16-bit / 44.1 kHz
from $18,100
Discover
Demograf Audio
Artemis
large-scale, weighty presentation
- DAC chip
- Burr-Brown PCM63
- Type
- Multibit NOS
- PCM up to
- 16-bit / 44.1 kHz
from $18,100
Discover
Demograf Audio
Katerina
strong bass, detail and attack
- DAC chip
- Burr-Brown PCM1704
- Type
- Multibit NOS
- PCM up to
- 16-bit / 44.1 kHz
from $18,100
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