TacT Audio: Digital Amplifiers with Room Correction

Audio technology for the 21st century! A pioneer in this space, TacT Audio offers the most advanced room correcting digital preamplifiers and amplifiers. It is a well known fact that the listening room has a huge effect on the sound you hear, distorting both the timbre as well as the imaging. Even lining your walls with sound absorbers and diffusers offers limited improvement, and most of us don't want our rooms to look like a recording studio.

TacT Audio's Preamplifiers and Amplifiers with Room Correction are "the  few high-end products on the market that can fundamentally change your listening experience as well as solve most listening room and speaker problems" ... (quote from the TAS review of the RCS 2.2 XP).

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RCS 2.2 XP Room Correcting Preamplifier

M 2150 Room Correcting Digital Amplifier

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TacT  RCS 2.2 XP: Preamplifier with Dynamic Room Correction

Awards and Reviews of the TacT Audio RCS 2.2 XP:

• ¤  The Absolute Sound Golden Ear Award 2007 (review).
• ¤  Hall of Fame award along with StereoTimes 2006 Most Wanted Components, Editor's Choice and Publisher's Choice Awards.

The RCS 2.2 XP is the ultimate Digital-to-Analog Converter cum Preamplifier, with built-in room correction technology, providing "a superb combination of a stereo preamp, equalizer, room equalizer, phase corrector, and digital-to-analog converter with up to 192kHz/24-bit resolution and advanced, highly accurate re-clocking".

"I don’t know another component that offers anything close to this level of performance at the price, does so much to improve the music, and allows you to play with the sound in ways that can be so constructive. The TacT 2.2 XP isn’t just an outstanding piece of high-end equipment; it is one hell of a lot of fun! Highly recommended, and in many listening rooms, essential."

Features:

The RCS 2.2 XP is designed to be the ultimate control center of your stereo, combining the features of an exceptional quality Digital-to-Analog Converter, Preamplifier, and Room Correction System for managing a 2-channel stereo with up to 2 subwoofers. The Room Correction System room caused frequency and reflection distortions, as well as automatically optimizing the crossover, phase and delay for managing up to 2 subwoofers. It even allows you to switch between up to 7 individually adjustable target frequency response curves to optimize your listening experience to different recording qualities.

• Digital Inputs: 5 (3 RCA, 1 XLR, 1 Optical), with sample rates up to 192kHz / 24-bits.
• Analog Inputs: 3 RCA, 1 XLR (with optional A-to-D module, sampled at 192 kHz / 24-bits, 122 dB S/N, 0.0005% distortion).
• Digital Outputs: 2 sets - main and subwoofer, each containing 1 RCA, 1 XLR, 1 Optical, with sample rates up to 192kHz / 24-bits.
• Analog Outputs: 1 RCA, 1 XLR for main and subwoofer (2 optional D-to-A modules, 192 kHz / 24-bits, 118 dB S/N).
• Time Domain Room Correction to address frequency response and reflection issues caused by speaker-room interaction.
• Dynamic Room Correction allows for automatic volume-dependent frequency response adjustment.
• Set up to 7 target frequency response curves. 
• Highest quality reclocking on all inputs, with upsampling to 192 kHz, with extremely low jitter.
• 48-bit resolution in all processing.
• Digitally controlled analog output level.
• Digital cross-over for subwoofers.
• High Performance Power Supply: Three filter stages, with separate secondary supplies for analog and digital, wit separate ground planes.
• Accessories: Remote Control, Calibrated Microphone with cable.
• List Price: $5,190; ADC Module $630, New High-rez Super-DAC Module $890 each.

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TacT M 2150 XDM: Digital Amplifier with Dynamic Room Correction

Features:

A fully digital 2-channel amplifier, with built-in Dynamic Room Correction. 

• Digital Inputs: 5 (3 RCA, 1 XLR, 1 Optical), with sample rates up to 192kHz / 24-bits.
• Digital Outputs: 1 RCA pass-through for multi-amp support.
• Output: 2x 150W into 8 ohms, 2x 300W into 4 ohms.
• THD+N: < 0.01%, 20Hz, all power levels.
• Output Current: > 50 Amperes.
• S/N Ration (A-weighted): > 110 dB.
• Digitally controlled volume level.
• Zero negative feedback.
• Dynamic Room Correction.
• 12-band parametric equalizer on each channel.
• Channel-balancing (0.1 dB resolution) and polarity.
• 650VA toroidal transformer with dual mono secondary windings.
• 90% efficiency - does not run hot.
• Weight: 37 lbs.
• List Price: $4,180.

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Either of these amazing components will add a completely new dimension to your listening experience, in a way that no conventional component can. Audiophiles have long recognized that the listening room has the largest effect on what you hear. TacT Audio's technology is designed to eliminate these distortions and take you closer to the live sound experience than you have ever been in your room.

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