The AX-1000z: 1.536 MHz /48-bit PCM
AIX Records’ hardware division is very proud to announce their first ultimate audiophile hardware component…the AX-1000z Ultra High-Resolution AD/DA converter with a built in 100 MHz Rubidium Atomic Clock. In the continuing quest for ever higher resolution and cost, the AX-1000z is the latest ultra-expensive, super high-resolution, HD-PCM doublewide, liquid cooled audiophile MUST HAVE component!
The AX-1000z is capable of encoding and decoding analog audio up to 768 kHz with signal to noise ratios eclipsing 288 dB! You’ve never heard resolution so lifelike and overpowering…I mean it, you’ve NEVER heard sound this rich in subtle nuance and low level detail. The AX-1000z actually delivers playback performance that is BETTER than real life! The AX-1000z uses newly patented solid unobtainium circuit board substrates within a 64-layer hand etched circuit board with low profile discrete components to bring new levels of performance to professional audio engineers and audiophiles alike.
One prominent reviewer was literally speechless after getting a private and extended opportunity to hear this remarkable piece of analog and digital engineering. Holger Ardoffhierinch tweeted, “The AX 1000z achieves levels of fidelity that makes the word fidelity obsolete! Listening to the AX-1000z reproduce a 1938 “Loving Mono” production of a newly polished original Blättnerphone broadband metal tape recording showed just how much how far this technology advances the state-of-the-art. The rhythmic pacing of the middle register was especially refined and Jell-O-like with the never heard before super sub octaves at minus 16 to minus 8 Hz shaking the almost 500 pound AX-1000z on it’s custom designed maglev stand (sold separately). And talk about ultrasonic frequency response! The AX-1000z handled the ultrasonic harmonics of the late period Mahler “Concerto for Piccolo and Glockenspiel” with ease. Of course some credit must be given to the super resolution, dual dome pico flux tweeters used on the AIX designed and one of a kind MDW-900 Series 4 speakers. The AX-1000z shows us what high-end audio will be in the very distant future AND remarkably it’s available now.” [Editor’s Note: Holger is a beta tester for the latest Twitter technology “Quadruple ASCII Wide”, which allows tweets longer than 140 characters!]
The company has not yet announced the retail price for the AX-1000z but during Dr. Waldrep’s recent seminar at the Rocky Mountain Audio fest, he hinted the company was trying to keep the price under $175,000…or just a little more than the price of their top secret and yet to be announced super ultimate-resolution, latex extruded, titanium based, self-levitating, 2-gauge wire 4 outlet power strip!
The AIX press release also mentioned a new liquid non-oxidizing umber colored gel that can be applied directly to your ears (pinnae only) to keep them from responding to the bias transferred, mechanical impedance oscillations and static build up so prominent in Blättnerphone-derived source recordings…stay tuned for an upcoming review.
Mark, I’d like to order 14 units. Does it come with DSD11.2 conversion on the outputs? 🙂
The research department at AIX Hardware is working on a prototype DSD 22.4 eXtreme processor that will handle the conversion from PCM to DSD and then back to analog. Should be available in the spring…stay tuned. Just call with your credit card. Cheers.
The Purity mod includes a further signal processor which converts the signal from PCM to DSD to RIAA Curve to analogue (instead of analog).
Seems like this advanced mod should also include a special button to switch the entire signal to mono!
Useless, audio equipment needs integrated encabulation technologies to be useful.
April fools comes early. At least Mark has a sense of humor and in relative term, immune to the bashers brigade.
I am a scientist (PhD Chemist) by training and I am always dumbfounded how a small band of molecule vibration, specifically 20 Hz to 20 kHz and beyond, is treated so much differently than any other wave. I appreciate Dr Aix and his scientifically sound (pun intended) explanation of audio reproduction.
Oops now I have done it. Now the snake-oilers will start to market audiophile atmospheres with proprietary mixtures of oxygen, nitrogen, carbon dioxide, water and a magic ingredient generated by residual perpendicular energy from the Tyce (intentional misspell) Clock.
BTW, I want one of the Special Edition Signature AX-1000z with optional Chlorinol so I invest another “just under” $175,000 and have it modded to squeeze out that last bit of imaging, pacing and hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedalynistic soul from my cryogenically treated Edison Gold Moulded Cylinder. Yes indeed.