Cen.Grand Lark 9i-90SA Pro

Cen.Grand Lark 9i-90SA Pro dac / Headphone amp / preamp. Lark is a trickle down technology model from the 92SA, with similar high end headphone amp design, flagship dac chip used for maximum music quality reproduction and a high end discrete balanced, preamp that belies its size and price class. Silver finish as shown.  Both digital and analog inputs.

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Cen.Grand Lark's most unique and compelling feature must be its outstanding headphone amp design:

• Features Cen-Grand's proprietary design with 4 modes: Normal, BTL, Active Ground, Parallel
  
• Normal provides accurate performance, especially for low impedance headphones
• BTL provides powerful output, especially good match with high impedance
• Active Ground recreates beautiful overtones, especially suited for vocal lovers
• Parallel mode increases riving force without increasing gain, especially great match with medium impedance headphones

Cen.Grand Lark 9i-90SA Pro is a fully balanced preamp with rca, xlr outputs, remote, as well as rca and xlr line inputs for analog or turntable sources. Digital inputs are coax, optical, usb and AES. The dac uses an 8 channel ESS 9038 PRO chip with an advanced usb input and isolation technology to remove noise from a computer's usb output. Display is easy to read OLED type with great contrast.

Demo in store - build quality feels very high end with thick heavy panels, solid aluminum volume wheel, 70 volume notches.

Cen.Grand Lark specs:

• Spdif input - PCM192
• USB input - DSD512 PCM384
• Dynamic range: 115dB
• Signal to noise ratio: 115dB (A weighting)
• Frequency response: ±0.4 dB (20-20KHz A weighting)
• THD+N: -102dB (fs=96KHz /10KHz A weighting)
• Pre-level gain: 4db (volume is 0db)
• Output power: 1.5W (33 ohms distortion 0.5%) 0.5W (600 ohms distortion 0.017%)
• Dimensions: 26cm * 8.5cm * 28cm (WHD)
• Gross Weight: 4.4kg