"DVA Digital Preamplifier" DAC

The DVA Digital Preamplifier is easily the best DAC that AVA has ever produced — and is quite possibly the best anywhere. So, if it's a DAC, why are we calling it a "digital preamplifier"? The DVA Digital Preamplifier is a DAC with a variable output level. This means it can be connected directly to a power amp for music lovers listening to digital sources — essentially taking the place of a conventional analog preamplifier. For those who want to use a conventional analog preamplifier, fear not — it makes for one hell of a conventional DAC as well. The DVA Digital Preamplifier has USB, coaxial, and optical inputs and variable-level RCA and XLR differential (i.e., "balanced") outputs. Its design is based around a famed AKM DAC IC. Each of the DAC IC's differential output signals passes through only one discrete class-A reconstruction stage in a way that retains all the benefits of differential digital-to-analog conversion with both differential and single-ended outputs. This gives you th