The new DAC from Lampizator -the successor of Level 4, Level 5, The Big5 and the Big6. this is 4th facelift since premiere, the most major one. Starts shipping December 8th 2025.
BALTIC-5 : with the introduction of our sensational Engine 12 we made a major step up and we got closer to Nirvana - a fully immersive sensation of swimming in a huge cloud of music. Based on the new digital engine 12 developed in November 2025 we achieved functionality and sound quality not possible before. Analog section utilizes the directly heated diode rectifier (5U4G or 274B style) and analog super dual triode 6SN7GT in duet with the output tube 12BH7.
EVERY DAC is BALANCED and single ended outputs are present as well, no need to choose between SE and BAL builds. The output of this DAC is buffered with 12AU7 or 12BH7 triodes for very low output impedance and earth shaking bass.
The price includes: USB input, PCM up to 32 bit/768 kHz files on USB-PCM, DSD 512x auto sense and auto switch pcm/dsd and all file sampling rate switching. S/PDIF/RCA inputs, TOSLINK and AES/EBU are standard as well. The non-usb inputs working up to 192 KHz and 24 bits PCM.