What Ideon Audio’s eos products offer is a highly-tuned circuit design featuring proprietary technologies, superbly engineered power supplies and very good general build quality. The big one is the performance. I can’t think of any audiophile and music lover left wanting with this combo

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Breakthrough technology from the Absolute and IΩN series: an affordable reference DAC

The Ideon Audio eos DAC, utilizes trickle-down technologies and R&D gained, from our extensive work mostly with our IΩN DAC and our flagship Absolute Epsilon which has set new standards worldwide. 

Many of the IΩN DAC’s innovations and designs are found in the IΩN in its own scale. As with all Ideon offerings, the eos DAC is a fully proprietary design, with audio technologies developed in-house.

A bespoke handcrafted product housing an innovative combination of high-performance design features and best-of-breed quality components.

  • Cutting edge analog stage, with symmetrical ultra-low noise power supply.

  •  -120 dB SNR, quad current output from DAC.

  • Silicon carbide diodes deployed to minimize  diode-rectification noise

  • Upgradable DAC and USB input engine.

  • New in-house developed dedicated software for the DAC chip (same as the Absolute E DAC). The upgradable chip firmware is developed by Ideon Audio in close cooperation with ESS.

  • Native support and playback for all DSD and PCM formats/frequency rates

  • Proprietary Triple Distillation USB input: Noise Elimination. 

  • New audio USB codec  used in our USB input module. A proprietary design, being the most current, state-of-the-art technology. The result; amazing, practically zero jitter, extremely low noise, super-fast processing, and extraordinary, natural sound quality.

  • A customized USB Audio 2.0 audio class driver developed for Windows. It’s optimized for low latency and low CPU load. Buffer depths can be adjusted to optimize settings for any given computer. The driver implements a transparent (bit-perfect) playback.

SUPPORTED FORMATS (INPUT DEPENDENT): 44.1kHz to 384kHz PCM up to 32 bits , Native DSD (up to 8X DSD)

DIGITAL INPUTS: 3x Advanced isolated input module slots (USB, BNC, RCA)

XLR BALANCED OUTPUTS: Selectable. Normal: 2.2 Vrms at 0dB. High: 4.4 Vrms at 0dB

RCA OUTPUTS: Selectable. Normal: 2.2 Vrms at 0dB. High: 4.4 Vrms at 0dBTHD (A WEIGHTED 20HZ-20KHZ)< – 110dB on all outputs

CHANNEL SEPARATION: >124dB on all outputs

SNR (A WEIGHTED 20HZ-20KHZ): >120dB on all outputs

DYNAMIC RANGE: 20HZ TO 20KHZ 132 dB (FS) . 130 dB (AFS)

DISPLAY: Custom matrix LED display

DIMENSIONS (W X H X D): 460 x 70 x 295 mm ( (18.1 x 2.7 x 11.6 in)

WEIGHT10kg (~22 lbs.)

What Ideon Audio’s eos products offer is a highly-tuned circuit design featuring proprietary technologies, superbly engineered power supplies and very good general build quality. The big one is the performance. I can’t think of any audiophile and music lover left wanting with this combo. It performs extraordinarily well, functions completely trouble-free (at least during its tenure in-house) and inspires confidence in terms of its overall design.