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Introduction Introduction Introduction The Avarice is a device primarily aimed at the owners of digital to analog converters, digital amplifiers, digital crossovers and other devices which perform digital to analogue conversion, and therefore rely on a high quality of the incoming digital signal. The Avarice helps to attenuate and reject all sorts of interference between various devices, to restore the time domain of the S/PDIF signal (i.e.
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Avarice – User Manual The Avarice version employing the optical input may serve as a high- quality optical-to-metallic SPDIF converter (TOSLINK -> S/PDIF). The improvement delivered by the Avarice can be particularly significant when used to connect an optical signal source, which is more susceptible to jitter.
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Switch 1 activates 2x or 4x upsampling performed in a single filtering stage. If this switch is set to the OFF position, the Avarice does not alter the audio data – the position of switches 2 and 4 has no effect in this case.
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OFF position (up) the output is set to a standard format compatible with all receivers. Should you have any questions or concerns, you can contact our dealers. Alternatively, please contact us on ap@audiopraise.com. - 5 - rev.1, January 2012...
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Avarice – User Manual Specifications Specifications Specifications Specifications S/PDIF input S/PDIF input S/PDIF input S/PDIF input protocol: S/PDIF (IEC958 / EIAJ CP1201) • type: coaxial, transformer-coupled, 75Ω impedance, BNC connector, optional • version equipped with TOSLINK input available on request format: linear PCM stereo •...
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