LAMPIZATOR Poseidon 2 - Tube Digital to Analog Converter - NEW!

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Just ask for it.LAMPIZATOR POSEIDON 2 - TUBE DIGITAL TO ANALOG CONVERTERTHE POSEIDON PROJECTAs a direct consequence of the international success of our flagship Horizon DAC, we decided to trickle down some of the solutions and most of the sound character (or its lack) to the more affordable products. At the same time we noticed that the middle of our portfolio is crowded and there is too many DACs cannibalizing each other.In 2023 we took a tactical decision to stop further development of The Big7 DAC, The Golden Gate and the Pacific. They are not discontinued but not developed further. You will find them in the page menu under CLASSIC. As a last minute addition we elevated these classics to the new, very much improved status with their respective Engine Eleven and Eleven-P. From December 2025 - it was superceeded by the newer Engine 12 and 12x2 respectively.The classic products now and for the eternity will be called Big7-MK3, Golden Gate 3 and Pacific 2.All this middle of price segment is now served by one new DAC that will be our new weapon in this upper quality echelon. Again - based on the revolutionary Twelve- x2 engine.THE POSEIDON DACWithin our Lampizator team we had set a new challenge: to create an entirely new DAC not based on any model from the past but with exactly half the Horizon budget: half for the housing, half for the transformers, half for the electronics, half for the tubes.The design criteria were among others:1. To maintain the chassis size no larger than that of Pacific or Horizon2. To offer single ended and balanced topology at the same time, without the need of choosing one3. To offer volume control, display and remote control to everyone, without the need of choosing4. To create the volume control circuit that has the smallest possible sonic compromise versus a straight DAC.5. To offer single ended and balanced ANALOG inputs - like in a high end preamp6. To eliminate the input impedance problems that plague typical preamps7. To eliminate output impedance weakness that plagues the tube products8. To use easily available tubes, which is important in these VERY troubled times. This is important for us, manufacturers - today, and for you - users - tomorrow.9. Needless to mention - the sound quality had to be the best of all our DACs below the Horizon. And at the same time to maintain the Lampizator house character.10. To provide a unique feature of SE analog inputs becoming really balanced at the outputs. So our turntable or tape deck can drive directly the balanced amps.The resulting DAC is a masterpiece of good sound and convenient features. It has everything it can have, all the important features of the center of homer entertainment. It is specifically designed to work well with modern amplifiers, including the very big solid state ones. At the same time it eliminates the need for a preamp, no matter if costing 5, 15 or 50 k Euro. The Poseidon built in preamp is better when driving the amplifiers directly.Key highlights:​Proprietary, firmware driven conversion process with 760kHz PCM and DSD512 - Engine Twelve-X2No silicon anywhere in signal path past the conversion stageSilver wiring insideCopper foil, true metal sheet capacitors in the signal pathCNC milled chassis.6N1P conversion tubes6J5 output driver tubesVolume control of the highest possible caliber in every unit, featuring a full bypass functionAll units are truly balanced and SE at the same timeZero feedback, neither local nor globalZero opampsTube rectified power supplyHundreds of tube rolling permutations.Preliminary parameters of P-1:​Weight: 23 kg / 55 lbs net, 35 kg / 80 lbs grossDimensions without tubes: 440 mm W x 550 mm D x 170 mm H (height with tubes 250 mm)Digital inputs: 1 x USB, 1 x S/PDIF RCA, 1 x AES/EBU, 1 x TOSLINK1 x analog input RCA, 1 x analog input XLR fully balancedOutput impedance: 400 Ohms per phaseInput impedance 200k per phase. 0,2M balanced (as a pre)1 x analog output pair RCA and 1 x XLR balanced outputOutput level: 0DB full level @2,5V peak sinus 1 kHz per phase, 5V p-p for balancedMains 110-115 - 220 - 230 - 240 V AC / consumption 100 VA (0,4 A)Frequency response 15Hz-100 kHz @+/- 1,5 dB, >500kHz @ -6dBOverall amplification factor: 4x (6dB) - tube dependentMaximum possible (custom) amplitude output: 11V SE, 22V BalancedVolume setting to obtain 2 V output with standard digital source of 0dB: -6 points SE, -12 points BalInput sensitivity @2Vpp output signal and max level setting: 625mV SE, 160 mV BalTHD @ 2V output: 0,09% SE, 0,02 % Bal​Colors: (sorry: no gold, no anodizing, no car paint (like Mazda Red)Matt Black Hole​The dust cover plate around the tubes on top can be ordered in these colors:Copper - for the famous "Duracell look" (Black body and copper top)Stainless steel mirror-like chrome lookBlack Hole black mattPowdercoat copper color on aluminium​Packing in custom hand made flight caseTube compliment:​1 x 5U4G rectifier or equivalent, 274B, 5Y3, 5C3S, GZ34, GZ37, GZ480, 5AR4WGB4 x 6N1P dual triode as input buffer or 6N6P or 6N30P or ECC88 or E88CC or PCC88 or 6DJ9 or 6922 or adapter fitted ECC99, ECC40, VT99, 6F8G, 6900, 12BH7, 5687, 12AU74 x 6J5 single triode as output buffer or 6V6 pentode (without adapter), also 6C2C - Bakelite or Metalbase, also L63 and CV1067​All circuit consists of 4 identical mono circuits and each of phases has three tube stages: input buffer, amplifier and output buffer. The remote control for the first time is not before the tubes or after the tubes but in between stages, making it the most transparent and benign volume control ever.Remote Control - CNC milled metal "slab" remoteDisplay: OLED display (amber color, monochrome)POSEIDON-2 DAC​​​We introduce the three main changes in Poseidon DAC in three stages: 1. Stage one is new digital engine - the E12x2 replaces the two years older E11-PThis engine is slightly better than the E11P, it is more organic, more liquid, and with better bass. After making over 50 upgrades - everybody agreed. 2. Stage two involves a new tube plate - the whole analog stage. We managed to simplify the schematics and reduce the number of capacitors in signal series path by half. Also the number of tube stages reduced from 3 to 2. Also the volume section arrangement improves our hum to music ratio almost 10x fold. The tubes remain the same. (the top tube PCB is now green not red). The sound became much more spacious and intimately close. Any traces of residual hum - disappeared.3. The volume section - we replace our volume control (Khozmo System that we have been using in over 1000 DACs in the recent past) with our own, Lampizator SuperVolume that is described HERE. This change improves clarity, thansparency and precision by A LOT. (and it doesn't click). Any old Poseidon can be retrofit upgraded by any one of the three changes, or any two or all three.The new Poseidon-2 that has all three changes built in - is so much better than the predecessor that we had to make the name change to "2". It is in fact a whole new DAC. And we decided to keep the price unchanged.The soundThe circuit of this DAC has tubes, which will reach the full sound quality after no more than 3 minutes from startup and even after just 20 seconds it becomes apparent that the soundstage is like no other. It stretches so wide and so deep that it exceeds the room boundaries and develops in our imagination beyond the walls and ceiling. Within this huge, immersive soundscape we can hear better than before where things are happening - we hear the individual musicians, their instrument, their reverb, their interplay with the recording venue and the other musicians. They seem to be playing more like a whole (band) even if we hear them more clearly also as individuals. The bass, which "technically" goes down to half hertz, has no bottom limitations and within the low octaves has much more colors, character, detail. Instead of a typical boom-boom, we hear the bass nuances - strings, bodies, reverbs, intonation. All this became our famous quality from the Engine 11 and here in the Eleven-P we took it to new level. From 2026 superceeded by Engine Twelve and it's dual mono