Lampizator Genya DAC

We can build only 40 DACS with this unique and scarce engine H99 and this is therefore a limited edition product. Horizon Lite variant  (available from 04 May 2025)

Horizon Lite PLUS variant:  This is the same DAC but the tube PCB is designed especially for the best and rarest tube ECC182 thats impossible to get and I leave it up to you. It is also stupid crazy expensive. Also known in USA as 7119. We made the ECC182 circuit and the stock DAC will have 5687 triodes installed  (you need a quad - that makes it even more sick). Ecc182 is a drop in replacement for 5687. And if your budget is infinite - the 6900 is even better. The PCB is gold plated in this variant. We also use Copper in Oil Impregnation superb capacitors.

Within our Lampizator team we had set a new challenge: to create an entirely new DAC not based on any particular model from the past but with no frills, no bells or whistles , no volume control, no remote control, no preamp - just a bare bone DAC with the best possible sound and at the lowest possible cost of everything thats not sound.

We have Horizon 99 digital engines available after the Horizon1 DAC is being upgraded to H360 - we can recycle the famous, fabulously complex and fabulously good sounding engine.

The target MSRP list price is also circa 1/3rd of the Horizon 360 price.  

The resulting DAC is a masterpiece of good sound and yes the look is very spartan and industrial and boring. There are no controlls of any kind, everithing is automatic, it will read automatically in NATIVE FORM every existing file type up to DSD512x

This DAC absolutely MUST work with a preamp or with an integrated amp with a remote control. It can not be used straight to power amps with so called "digital volume control" for example in the ROON server. The DAC needs ANALOG volume control.

Proprietary, firmware driven conversion process with 760kHz PCM and DSD512

No silicon anywhere in signal path past the conversion stage

Silver wiring inside

Copper foil, true metal sheet capacitors in the signal path

6N6P conversion tubes with low impedance SRPP scheme

All units are truly balanced and SE at the same time

Zero feedback, neither local nor global

Zero opamps

Tube rectified power supply (6X5 USA)

1 x 6X5 rectifier or equivalent, 6C5S

4 x 6N6P dual triode as input buffer or 6N30P or ECC88 or E88CC or PCC88 or 6DJ9 or 6922 or adapter fitted  ECC99, ECC40,  6900, 12BH7, 5687, 12AU7 Ecc182, 7119

All circuit consists of 4 identical mono circuits and each of phases has one tube stage working simultaneously as  input buffer, amplifier and output buffer.

AVAILABILITY from May 01,  2025, limited Horizon1 board makes this a LIMITED PRODUCT to 50 units worldwide.

Premiere: 11 04 2025 in Chicago - AXPONA show

The circuit of this DAC is so pure and simple, that the Horizon Engine 99 can really shine, making it instantly a superb DAC in a class of its own.  The soundstage is like no other. It stretches so wide and so deep that it exceeds the room boundaries and develops in our imagination beyond the walls and ceiling. Within this huge, immersive soundscape we can hear better than before where things are happening - we hear the individual musicians, their instrument, their reverb, their interplay with the recording venue and the other musicians. They seem to be playing more like a whole (band) even if we hear them more clearly also as individuals. The bass, which "technically" goes down to half hertz, has no bottom limitations and within the low octaves has much more colors, character, detail. Instead of a typical boom-boom, we hear the bass nuances - strings, bodies, reverbs, intonation. All this became our famous quality from the Horizon1 and here in the Genya  we took it to new level.

The sound character is very detailed, very resolute, but at the same time it is the opposite of the typical solid state DAC - dry, flat, harsh digital sound, tiring after 10 minutes and having nothing in common with real live music. The sound has what we like about good vinyl playback, but with MUCH more user friendly digital features like streaming and wide frequency response.

We sincerely believe, that at this price point and beyond, there is simply nothing that touches the sound quality of the GENYA, and music is what it is all about. Thank you, Evgennyi.