{"id":143003,"date":"2022-03-13T07:49:18","date_gmt":"2022-03-13T07:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techweekmag.com\/?p=143003"},"modified":"2022-03-13T07:49:18","modified_gmt":"2022-03-13T07:49:18","slug":"wattson-audio-madison-new-dac-with-built-in-streamer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/hi-fi\/wattson-audio-madison-new-dac-with-built-in-streamer\/","title":{"rendered":"Wattson Audio Madison: New DAC with built-in streamer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Swiss company\u00a0<b>Wattson Audio<\/b>\u00a0has announced the release of a new model of a digital-to-analog converter with a built-in\u00a0<b>Madison<\/b> streamer.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-143004\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Wattson-Audio-Madison.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1440\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Wattson-Audio-Madison.jpg 1440w, https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Wattson-Audio-Madison-800x444.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Wattson-Audio-Madison-1080x600.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Wattson-Audio-Madison-770x428.jpg 770w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The component is housed in a compact case, entirely machined from billet aluminum.\u00a0<b>The design of the DAC uses separate chips for each of the channels, and the presence of a LEEDH<\/b>\u00a0volume control\u00a0allows you to connect the device directly to a power amplifier or active speakers.<\/p>\n<p>The device provides optical and coaxial digital outputs, as well as two pairs of analog outputs &#8211; unbalanced on RCA and balanced on XLR.\u00a0There is a 6.35mm jack for connecting headphones.\u00a0The device weighs a little over one kilogram and is made in Switzerland.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_143007\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-143007\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-143007\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Wattson-Audio-Madison.jpeg\" alt=\"Watson Audio Madison\" width=\"900\" height=\"675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Wattson-Audio-Madison.jpeg 900w, https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Wattson-Audio-Madison-800x600.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Wattson-Audio-Madison-770x578.jpeg 770w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-143007\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Watson Audio Madison<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><b>The <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wattson.audio\/madison\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wattson Audio Madison<\/a><\/b>\u00a0digital-to-analog converter\u00a0is sold on the European market for\u00a0<b>3,199 euros<\/b>\u00a0.<\/p>\n<p>[ratemypost]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Swiss company\u00a0Wattson Audio\u00a0has announced the release of a new model of a digital-to-analog converter with a built-in\u00a0Madison streamer. The component is housed in a compact case, entirely machined from billet aluminum.\u00a0The design of the DAC uses separate chips for each of the channels, and the presence of a LEEDH\u00a0volume control\u00a0allows you to connect the [&hellip;] <a class=\"g1-link g1-link-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/hi-fi\/wattson-audio-madison-new-dac-with-built-in-streamer\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10404,"featured_media":143006,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[642],"tags":[779],"class_list":{"0":"post-143003","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hi-fi","8":"tag-news"},"acf":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}