Balanced tube DAC – LampizatOr's new Baltic 3 [€4'900] attempts to chase their Golden Gate flagship for 1/3rd the budget. It does USB, coax, Toslink and AES/EBU with RCA/XLR outputs. It processes up to 384kHz PCM and DSD 512 fully balanced. Low gain is 2Vpp out, high gain 6Vpp. The tube complement is 2 x 5963/ECC802, 2 x 6N8PA/CV181T/6SN7GT and one rectifier in the 5U4G/GZ37 family. Fascia colors other than black are available.
