RCS 2.2 XP Hardware

The TacT 2.2 XP Dynamic Room Correction preamplifier has been meticulously designed to be a no-compromise audiophile product. Its ground-breaking features and breath taking sound quality bring you musical reproduction never before realized in any audio product. The design is fully modular with all of the expensive components placed on plug-in modules that can be easily (and inexpensively) upgraded. Furthermore, TacT has a policy of making software upgrades available at no cost to the user. And in contrast to other manufacturer's software upgrades, new TacT software versions can incorporate performance upgrades, as well as functional revisions.

AD and DA Converters. The AD and DA converters are the highest performance 192 kHz/24-bit designs with very low distortion and noise. The associated analog circuitry has been designed with the greatest care resulting in a signal to noise ratio very near the theoretical limits with extremely low distortion. When used with the digital input and digital output, the distortion and noise are immeasurable.

Lower sampling rate formats such as CD and DAT are upsampled with the highest quality sample rate converter at the input so that the DA conversion can take place at 192 kHz. Sample rate converters are also used for the digital outputs, giving extreme jitter attenuation. Sample rates from 44.1 to 192 kHz for the output can be user selected.

The Power Supply The main power supply is a switch-mode design. Separate secondary power supplies for analog and digital, in combination with totally separate ground planes, result in very high performance with regards to crosstalk of any kind. All audio signals have been separated from the mains voltage by no less than 3 stages of power supply filtering.

The entire chassis is CNC-machined from aluminum to reduce magnetic interference.