The Ideon Audio EOS DAC is a high-end DAC designed to deliver exceptional clarity and depth. With cutting-edge noise elimination, ultra-low jitter clocks, and a refined analogue stage, it ensures pure and immersive sound. Featuring modular construction and future-proof upgrades, the EOS DAC offers audiophiles outstanding digital-to-analogue conversion at an accessible price. Available in New Zealand.
Ideon Audio EOS DAC – Affordable High-End DAC with Cutting-Edge Technology
The Ideon Audio EOS DAC brings the acclaimed innovation of Ideon’s flagship models into a more accessible design, delivering an outstanding high-performance DAC experience. Built with proprietary technologies, this audiophile digital converter enhances clarity, resolution, and musical depth, offering an engaging and lifelike soundstage.
Advanced Digital and Analog Design
At the heart of the EOS DAC lies Ideon’s proprietary Triple Distillation USB input, an advanced three-stage noise elimination circuit that removes digital artefacts for a purer signal path. This advanced digital-to-analogue converter utilises a HyperStream, 8-channel architecture and an ultra-low noise analogue stage with symmetrical power supplies, ensuring precise and natural sound reproduction.
Precision Clocks and Noise Elimination
Equipped with three ultra-low jitter femto clocks, each with a dedicated power supply, the EOS DAC achieves exceptional timing accuracy. By minimising phase noise and jitter, it creates a highly detailed, immersive soundstage, preserving every nuance of the original recording.
Modular and Future-Proof Design
Like all Ideon products, the EOS DAC is built with long-term performance in mind. Its modular architecture allows for future upgrades, ensuring that it evolves with advancing technologies. This future-proof approach guarantees that audiophiles can enjoy cutting-edge digital-to-analogue conversion for years to come.
Clean Power for Pristine Sound
The EOS DAC features a multistage low-noise power supply with separate regulation stages. High-quality regulators and ultra-low ESR audio-grade capacitors are used to ensure stable, clean power, minimising noise and distortion. This focus on clean power results in exceptional clarity and linearity, bringing out the finest details in any musical recording.
Conclusion: High-End Performance at an Accessible Price
Bringing advanced digital technology from the Absolute and IΩN series into a more attainable design, the Ideon Audio EOS DAC sets new standards in precision and musicality. With its superior noise elimination, refined analogue stage, and future-ready construction, this audiophile digital converter offers an engaging and deeply immersive listening experience.
Additional information
Weight
10 kg
Dimensions
29.5 × 46 × 7 cm
Supported formats (input dependant)
44.1kHz to 384kHz PCM up to 32 bits , Native DSD (up to 8X DSD)
Selectable. Normal: 2.2 Vrms at 0dB. High: 4.4 Vrms at 0dB
RCA outputs
Selectable. Normal: 2.2 Vrms at 0dB. High: 4.4 Vrms at 0dB
THD (A weighted 20Hz-20KHz)
< – 110dB on all outputs
Channel seperation
>124dB on all outputs
SNR (A weighted 20Hz-20KHz)
>120dB on all outputs
Dynamic range
20Hz to 20KHz 132 dB (FS) . 130 dB (AFS)
Display
Custom matrix LED display
About Ideon
Ideon Audio is a Greek-based high-end audio company known for its exceptional digital-to-analog converters (DACs) and digital sources. The company has gained a strong reputation for its innovative approach to digital audio, offering a range of products that cater to both audiophiles and professional users.
One of Ideon Audio’s most acclaimed products is the Absolute Epsilon DAC, which is the centerpiece of their Absolute Digital Suite that also includes the Absolute Stream and Absolute Time Master Clock. The Absolute DAC uses proprietary technology, including custom-designed USB inputs and power supplies, and features multiple low-noise power regulation stages, all of which work together to provide highly detailed and dynamic sound reproduction. With its focus on phase fidelity and jitter reduction, the Absolute DAC delivers lifelike detail, excellent transient response, and a punchy, dynamic soundstage.
The Absolute Stream and Absolute Time further enhance the DAC’s performance by isolating noise and reclocking the signal, ensuring a cleaner, more accurate digital signal transmission. This combination makes the Ideon system particularly adept at producing powerful bass and vivid, forward vocals, creating a sense of immediacy and presence in the music. Audiophiles have praised the system for its ability to reveal fine details, especially in complex and fast-paced tracks.
For those seeking a more accessible option, the Ideon EOS DAC offers a similar focus on clarity and speed, albeit at a lower price point. It has been noted for its ability to deliver high-resolution, energy-rich sound, making it suitable for listeners who appreciate both detail and dynamics across a variety of musical genres.
Ideon Audio’s products stand out for their craftsmanship and sonic transparency, appealing to enthusiasts who seek the very best in digital audio performance.
Reviews
Michael Lavorgna – Twittering Machines
“I can say with confidence that it inherits Ideon’s supremely transparent house sound coupled with next-level cool clear clarity, superb control, and outstanding dynamic snap! that put me deep inside music’s groove. If you’re looking for a DAC that makes the all-important task of turning bits into music feel effortlessly transparent, the Ideon EOS is an exceptional choice.”
“The Ideon Eos DAC is one of the most sparsely equipped and best-sounding D/A converters that I have come across… The Eos DAC plays with a damn high resolution, reproduces very precisely and three-dimensionally and creates an exceptionally transparent stage space. …If you want the best possible sound for your money, you should give the Ideon Eos DAC an ear, because it really delivers in this regard… The Eos gives the music momentum and life, and that really puts you in the mood.”
“What Ideon Audio’s eos products offer is a highly-tuned circuit design featuring proprietary technologies, superbly engineered power supplies and very good general build quality. The big one is the performance. I can’t think of any audiophile and music lover left wanting with this combo. It performs extraordinarily well, functions completely trouble-free (at least during its tenure in-house) and inspires confidence in terms of its overall design.”
“After packing up the Eos to send to our photo studio, I can no longer enjoy my own digital setup. It almost sounds broken, because there are a lot of musical subtleties and timbres left behind that I don’t want to miss anymore. What now?”
“In this video I am reviewing the Ideon Audio STREAM, TIME and DAC which are all stand alone HiFi products but work together to form a very high end digital music server and streamer and a DAC.”
“The Greek brand Ideon Audio continues to impress me. Freshly released is the EOS suite consisting of the DAC, and for further performance, you can add Time (reclocker), and Stream (server). This series greatly benefits from the DNA found in the Absolute Epsilon suite of components.”
