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DAC-in-the-Box
, an external
digital-to-analog converter
intended to improve the sound of the user's CD player
Audio Alchemy
was a
high end
audio equipment manufacturer based in
California
, USA. The company was first formed in the late 1980s, producing many lines of relatively affordable audio products, including
CD players
, transports, digital audio processors, and amplifiers. It went out of business in the late 1990s, was briefly relaunched in the early 2000s as Alchemy2, then was relaunched under the original Audio Alchemy name in early 2015 with a new line of higher-quality, full-featured audio products.
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On October 6, 2016 Audio Alchemy was acquired by
Elac
.
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Audio Alchemy products make innovative use of the
I²S
audio interface, usually reserved for the internal connection between the CD transport and
DAC
of a CD player. Audio Alchemy brought the interface out to a
DIN connector
, allowing a very low
jitter
connection between the CD transport and external DAC, by transmitting the clock signal and the audio signal in parallel. This offers a superior alternative connectivity method to something like
S/PDIF
, which sees the clock signal embedded into the audio signal. The process of extracting the clock signal from the data stream is where
jitter
is introduced
[
citation needed
]
. This interface is used in several original Audio Alchemy products and in the relaunched company's products.
Perpetual Technologies and Camelot Technology also produce products that use the
I²S
interface.
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