Pre Box S2 Digital

Pre Box S2 Digital

Regular price $ 499

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Excellent sounding DAC/preamp with analog 1/4" TRS headphone and RCA outputs with USB, coax, and optical SPDIF digital inputs.

This compact DAC preamp is perfect for secondary listening away from your main audio interface. Bedside table our lounge Pre Box S2 Digital is perfect to reference of your favorite digital source. CD players, network streamer or laptop.

The reviews aren't wrong, this is an excellent sounding preamp at an affordable price with a compact and well built enclosure.

Reviews

Pre Box S2 Digital marks a new era for our S-series components, for the very first time we are using a dual mono configuration with the highest class D/A converters of ESS Sabre, their flagship DAC chip ensures highest class audio in a small and affordable pack-age. This DAC is capable of high resolution audio up to 32bit 768kHz PCM and DSD512! Pre Box S2 Digital is also the very first of our devices to support hardware MQA unfolding via USB. It’s also the premiere of our proprietary Optimum transient digital filter and our proprietary clock circuitry design. Digital audio is the art of time, with our new proprietary clock design we have managed jitter rates of unrivaled 100 Femtoseconds, this easily outperforms many renowned and respected audiophile clock generators! With organic polymer capacitors and thin film miniMELF resistors we were able to create a tiny device that will blow away even much bigger components for a much higher price. With a total of seven digital filters the sound can be shaped precisely to the listeners liking. Pre Box S2 Digital is fully remote-able, it can also control the playback software of a computer. You can use Play, Pause, Forward and Rewind straight with your Pre Box S2 Digital!

Features

  • Dual mono construction
  • High end ESS Sabre ESS9038 dual DACs
  • Proprietary clock circuity design
  • Organic polymer capacitors and thin film miniMELF resistors
  • MQA hardware decoding
  • DSD64, DSD128, DSD256 & DSD512 (DoP, DSD512 native)
  • Up to 24bit/192kHz for optical & coax inputs
  • 8 selectable digital filter characteristics
  • 1 proprietary optimum transient digital filter
  • Headphone output on the front (6.3mm)
  • Synchronization of all internal oscillators
  • Jitter as low as 100 Femtoseconds
  • Gold plated four layer PCB
  • Full alu/metal sandwich casing in silver or black
  • Handmade in Europe

Specifications

  • Digital inputs: 1x USB (B)
  • 1x Co-axial (RCA)
  • 1x Optical (TOSLink)
  • D/A-converter: 2x ESS9038Q2M 32-bit
  • Playback formats USB: up to DSD512 (DSD1024), PCM up to 32b/768kHz
  • Optical: PCM up to 24b/192kHz
  • Coaxial: PCM up to 24b/192kHz
  • Filter settings: 7 different selectable on front
  • Frequency response: 20Hz – 20kHz
  • Analogue outputs: 6.3mm Headphone (front), 1x Variable Out (RCA)
  • Output voltage: 2,05 V
  • Minimal recommended headphone impedance: 8ohms
  • Headphone output power: 6,6mW/600ohms, 68mW/32ohms
  • THD: 0,0003% at 0dB, 2V RMS, 1kHz
  • Dynamic range: 124dBA
  • Outboard power supply: 5V/1A DC (included)

Downloads

*This version of the driver for the Pre Box S2 Digital (‘Downloads’ section above) is specifically for computers that are running versions of Windows released BEFORE Windows 10. Attempting to install this driver on a computer running Windows 10 will potentially overwrite the existing correct driver and cause the Pre Box S2 Digital to behave in unexpected ways. Windows 10 already contains the correct driver for the Pre Box S2 Digital.

Physical Measurements

Dimensions (excluding connectors)
W10.5cm × D10.5cm × H3.7cm (including rubber feet)

Weight
0.80 lbs, 0.366 kg

Pre Box S2 Digital
Pre Box S2 Digital