DAC Accessories
A range of brand new accessories and upgrades compatible with the Pink Triangle DaCapo and Ordinal Digital-to-Analog Convertors
RCA / Toslink Input
Switchable RCA / Toslink Input
Switchable between standard Toslink Optical and RCA Phono Coaxial input (50 or 75 ohm). Can be used with BNC with a low cost adapter.
Use your DaCapo with virtually any digital source such as a media streamer, TV, or CD transport.
Does not require “Clock Lock” signal used with the Pink Triangle Cardinal CD Transport, allowing this incredible DAC to be used with a wide array of sources.
USB
High Performance USB Input Card
USB Input Card for Pink Triangle DaCapo / Ordinal DAC
Bring your beloved Pink Triangle DAC into the 21st century by fitting a USB input card. Compatible with Windows, Linux and MacOS, the input can be used with many streamers and audio sources offering the very best flexibility without compromising sound quality. Fully tested with Windows 11, Raspberry Pi and streamers including Moode and Volumio, the card offers excellent compatibility and no additional drivers are needed for most applications.
Designed with Clock-Lock between the DAC and USB decoder to give the very best audio performance. The board uses an ultra low jitter oscillator running at 45.1584MHz to provide a clean clock signal to the DaCapo and to the high-end Savitech/Bravo SA9227 USB decoder IC. The board also features an onboard ultra low noise regulator to power the clock circuit.
Please note, this card only works with 44.1kHz audio source material.
HDCD Filter Module
HDCD Digital Filter Module
Most people agree that the HDCD filter module for the Pink Triangle DaCapo DAC was by far the best. Better even than the newer 24-bit filter and a huge leap up if you only have the 18 or 20 bit modules.
Unfortunately they are extremely hard to get hold of! So I’ve spent the last few months re-engineering the original filter module using the same core PMD-100 filter chip from Pacific Microsonics. The result, a new filter that sounds identical to the Pink Triangle original, but critically, you can get one of these!
OptoLock
Toslink Input Card with Clock-Lock
Clock-Locked optical TosLink input card – includes clock output that feeds into the transport to give an ultra-low jitter clock in the DAC, significantly improving audio quality.
Designed to be used with any transport that features “ClockLock” capability, including the DPA Enlightenment, Cambridge Audio Discmagic, some Arcam Delta transports etc. ClockLock allows this incredible DAC to perform at its best. This will NOT work out of the box with transports that do not support a ClockLock signal.
The board uses an ultra low jitter oscillator running at 67.7376MHz to provide a clean clock signal to the DaCapo and to the Cardinal.
The clock lock output frequency is selectable by reconfiguring jumpers. Various output frequencies are possible including 16.9344MHz (Pink Triangle), 11.2896MHz (DPA Enlightenment, APEX streamers), 8.4672MHz (some Arcam Delta transports) 5.6448MHz (Cambridge Audio Discmagic) and other frequencies. Please get in touch for advice about your particular CD player.
ClockLock
BNC Input Card with Clock-Lock
Clock-Locked BNC input card – includes clock output that feeds into the transport to give an ultra-low jitter clock in the DAC, significantly improving audio quality.
Designed to be used with any transport that features “ClockLock” capability, including the DPA Enlightenment, Cambridge Audio Discmagic, some Arcam Delta transports etc. ClockLock allows this incredible DAC to perform at its best. This will NOT work out of the box with transports that do not support a ClockLock signal.
The board uses an ultra low jitter oscillator running at 67.7376MHz to provide a clean clock signal to the DaCapo and to the Cardinal.
The clock lock output frequency is selectable by reconfiguring jumpers. Various output frequencies are possible including 16.9344MHz (Pink Triangle), 11.2896MHz (DPA Enlightenment, APEX streamers), 8.4672MHz (some Arcam Delta transports) 5.6448MHz (Cambridge Audio Discmagic) and other frequencies. Please get in touch for advice about your particular CD player.
ClockLock upgrade for Arcam
Upgrade Arcam Alpha 7 to Clock-Lock
Unfortunately, the weak point in the Pink Triangle CD offering was always the Cardinal transport. It’s not that it sounds bad, but it is extremely fragile! They aren’t great at tracking CDs, particularly when they are getting a bit old, and often they just won’t play at all.
The fallback is often to use another CD transport, but this loses the massive benefit of Pink Triangle’s “ClockLock” circuit. The DAC is designed to output a clock signal to the transport allowing the transport to lock on to the internal high quality clock in the DAC, giving dramatically improved performance over conventional transports where the clock in the DAC is regenerated from the digital audio stream.
Problem solved!
Now you can get the benefit of using ClockLock even without a Pink Triangle Cardinal transport! By adding a clock input to a standard Arcam Alpha 7 CD player, this transport can be locked to the DaCapo DAC, providing superior sound quality with a relatively inexpensive CD transport. If you need to use Arcam as a stand-alone player or with another DAC, simply unplug the ClockLock cable and it will revert to using the standard internal clock.
This mod can be fitted yourself with no soldering required. Alternatively, I am happy to fit the mod for you, although you will need to send your CD player to me first of course!
If you have an alternative transport that you would like to ClockLock to the DaCapo, please contact me. This mod is usable with many different CD players and DACs.
Please note, you will need a Clock-Lock input card in your DaCapo / Ordinal. An APEX one will be great, but if you already have a Pink Triangle one, that will work too!