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--- audio:audio_by_van_alstine_work [2023/01/02 21:17] – [DVA Digital Preamplifier] mithat
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 **Contribution:** Concept origination, development, and implementation.
-**Discussion:** The DVA Digital Preamplifier is effectively an expansion of the DAC MK5. It reworks that product's output stage to provide a [[https://mithatkonar.com/blog/2020/10/14/dacs-and-the-differential-dilemma/|differential output]] and some gain while also implementing control of volume and input selection via a touchscreen and remote control. Thus, it eliminates the need for an analog preamp. This is, of course, how many users with primarily digital sources have been doing things for a long time now. It just took a bit of time to convince AVA of the advantages of this. Now that it's done, they are all-in. However, getting to done was no easy feat. Development was beset by seemingly myriad hurdles, starting with the [[https://www.strata-gee.com/akm-fire-2020-was-almost-over-then-disaster-struck-again/|fire at the AKM factory]] and ending with the prolonged COVID-19 Great Parts Apocalypse.
+**Discussion:** The DVA Digital Preamplifier is effectively an expansion of the DAC MK5. It reworks that product's output stage to provide a [[https://mithatkonar.com/blog/2020/10/14/dacs-and-the-differential-dilemma/|differential output]] as well as some gain while also implementing control of volume and input selection via a touchscreen and remote control. Thus, it eliminates the need for an analog preamp. This is, of course, how many users with primarily digital sources have been doing things for a long time now. It just took a bit of time to convince AVA of the advantages of this. Now that it's done, they are all-in. That said, getting to done was no easy feat. Development was beset by seemingly myriad hurdles, ranging from the [[https://www.strata-gee.com/akm-fire-2020-was-almost-over-then-disaster-struck-again/|fire at the AKM factory]] to the prolonged COVID-19 Great Parts Apocalypse.
 The DVA Digital Preamplifier also brought forth a new design aesthetic and chassis mechanics that I originally intended as a one-off transitional one. As is often the case, it took a good amount of work to convince AVA of the merits of making the change. But once the design was released, it received, for the first time ever for an AVA product, praise in the audiophile press for its aesthetics. Likely as a result of this, AVA asked me to design or redesign faceplates for a variety of new and existing products.
-What this means is that my original plan of transitioning to a brand new design program that takes updated user, business, and manufacturing requirements into full consideration will be delayed. I regard this as an odd manifestation of [[https://www.raymondloewy.org/loewy-biography/|Raymond Loewy's MAYA principle]].
+What this means is that my original plan of transitioning to a completely new design program that takes updated user, business, and manufacturing requirements into full consideration will be delayed. I regard this as an odd manifestation of [[https://www.raymondloewy.org/loewy-biography/|Raymond Loewy's MAYA principle]].
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 c. 2021