Owners Manual

Owner’s Reference Stellar Gain Cell DAC

Owner’s Reference

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Rev A

Display Brightness

Filter 3

Filter 2

Filter 1

Filter 2: Fast Roll-o Minimum Phase

This lter has better high frequency response than Filter 1, but more ringing as well. There is no pre-

ringing, so this is still a very musical sounding lter. Some people may prefer this lter for 44.1KHz

source material.

Filter 3: Fast Roll-o Linear Phase

This lter also has very good high frequency response. It has slightly less ringing than Filter 2, but it

does exhibit pre-ringing. While this lter may actually measure the best in a laboratory, we found it be

the most analytical sounding.

The next menu setting is the Display Brightness. Rotating the volume knob selects Bright, Normal, Dim,

or Auto. Auto will detect outgoing signal from the DAC and turn on.

Filter 1: Slow Roll-o Linear Phase

This lter is the least sharp and has the least amount of ringing. There is a slight loss in high

frequencies that may be noticeable with CDs and other 44.1KHz material. This should not be

detectable at all with higher sample rate sources. Because it has very little ringing, we have found it

to be the most musical sounding lter choice and we have made it the default lter for the Stellar.