Owners Manual

The Quantum D/A and clocking technology uses an extremely low jitter reference for jitter
reduction and a unique combination of analog and digital reconstruction filters. The reference
oscillator uses techniques that are borrowed from microwave communication and test
instruments in it’s design, and is the result of 2 years of research. The DAC is the latest
generation high end AKM 32 bit part.
The result is a DAC with unsurpassed imaging and transient response.
The jitter spec on the reference oscillator-clock is the lowest published jitter spec in Pro Audio.
Jitter reduction can be accomplished by several different methods.
As mentioned earlier on in this manual, the Quantum series works by using
an ASRC (Asynchronous Sample Rate Converter) that up-samples to 211kHz to
reduce jitter.
http://www.cranesong.com/jitter_1.html for further understanding of that
"Black Magic" word JITTER.
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