Product Overview - DCS Elgar Plus User Manual

dCS Elgar Plus User Manual
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RODUCT VERVIEW
Manual filename: Elgar Manual v4.4x.doc
English version
The dCS Elgar Plus is derived from our award winning dCS Elgar, the world's
first 24/96 and 24/192 audiophile D/A converter. Elgar Plus offers many
improvements over the standard Elgar, the most important being the ability to
handle DSD from IEEE 1394 or SDIF-2 interfaces, the ability to slave to a Word
Clock or act as a Master Clock, a digital output and a substantially expanded
Function Menu.
All dCS DACs feature our patented dCS Ring DAC technology. This unveils the
intricate low level musical detail that is dCS' hallmark.
Elgar Plus will accept digital data at 44.1kS/s from your CD player and
interpolate the 16 bits, giving your CD collection a new lease of life. Elgar Plus
will also convert 24 bit 96kS/s data from DVD players, revealing the increased
depth and spaciousness inherent in the more complex source information. With
the current software version, Elgar Plus also has the ability to act as a master
clock for your transport, increasing the clocking precision of the overall system.
Units fitted with the IEEE 1394 interface option can convert DSD data (a single
bit data stream, sampled at 2.822MS/s) from a suitably equipped Upsampler or
SACD player to extra wide-band audio, taking advantage of the extended
bandwidth inherent in the DSD format.
All dCS DACs use the same digital processing engine running the same DSP
code. The extensive use of programmable logic makes dCS products extremely
flexible and easy to upgrade. You can load updated Elgar Plus software from a
dCS CD using a CD player, or dCS service agents can download software to the
SUC port, using a PC.
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Manual for Software Issue 4.3x
August 2005
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