• Overview – The Aavik Acoustics SD-188 Streamer DAC, released in 2019, is a solid-state network streamer and digital-to-analogue converter featuring integrated streaming, premium DAC architecture, and fully balanced analogue outputs for high-end audio systems.

• Advanced Digital Architecture – Utilizing a low-noise streaming platform, precision clocking, and balanced analogue output stage, the Aavik Acoustics SD-188 Streamer DAC delivers exceptional timing accuracy, low jitter, and remarkable musical transparency.

Continuum DAC

The Continuum DAC takes a unique approach to digital-to-analog conversion with a fully chipless design. A custom-programmed FPGA converts all digital audio into high-resolution DSD512, a format that closely mimics analog. A specialized digital filter then smooths the signal without any switching, preserving a natural, continuous sound. A simple analog filter completes the path, revealing music with clarity, warmth, and depth. This breakthrough design powers the Aavik SD-x88 series, delivering an exceptionally lifelike listening experience.

Resonant Mode Power Supply

Aavik x88 amplifiers feature a fast, low-noise switching power supply, optimized for class D amplification. Operating in power-factor-corrected resonant mode, it delivers smooth, clean sine wave power. When extra power is needed, the supply adjusts its frequency to increase power density, ensuring high peak currents without distortion. The result is a very low noise floor, low output impedance, and superior control over connected speakers.

Active Tesla coil

Effective noise killer.
The active Tesla coils are power supplied which secures a remarkable lower impedance and thus a better ability to eliminate noise. The active version is about three to four times more efficient than passive Tesla coils.

• Reference Streaming Performance – The Aavik Acoustics SD-188 Streamer DAC supports high-resolution network playback while producing expansive soundstaging, outstanding detail retrieval, and natural tonal balance for discerning audiophiles.

• Overview – The Aavik Acoustics SD-880 Streamer DAC, released in 2021, is a flagship solid-state network streamer and digital-to-analogue converter featuring fully balanced circuitry, integrated streaming, and reference-grade digital processing for uncompromising audio performance.

• Flagship Digital Architecture – Utilizing Aavik’s ultra-low-noise digital platform with precision clocking and advanced power regulation, the Aavik Acoustics SD-880 Streamer DAC delivers exceptional timing accuracy, ultra-low jitter, and remarkable musical realism.

• Reference Streaming Performance – The Aavik Acoustics SD-880 Streamer DAC supports high-resolution network playback with outstanding transparency, expansive soundstage, and exceptional micro-detail, making it an ideal source for reference-level audio systems.

Quiet but extremely powerful.

This Aavik series is designed to ensure massive power resources with ultra-low noise. Unlike the square waves used by conventional switch mode power supplies, this Aavik series boast a resonant mode design which is principally driven by sine waves.

When more power is needed, the operating frequency increases, which, in turn, has the advantage that the power density also increases, thus allowing higher peak power when required by the music.

The noise floor in the raw power supply is extremely low but could be even further lowered by the ultra-low noise regulators supplying the different parts of the circuit. The noise of these regulators is measured in a few microvolts respectively nanovolts, which is significantly lower than the noise level of conventional regulators.

The 880 cabinet design

A study of materials and shapes. The exterior design of the Aavik 880 amplifier is the result of Flemming Erik Rasmussen’s artistic and aesthetic work. However, his design philosophy is and always has been that design must serve purpose. The cabinet of the Aavik 880 amplifier was designed primarily with the goal of maintaining the best audio characteristics of the electrical design, i.e. the lowest inductance, reducing hysteresis to an absolute minimum, and ensuring excellent resonance control. In addition, since this was a Class A amplifier that was to be developed, there were some predefined premises for the design. With these goals in mind, the design process became a study of shapes and materials that opened up a unique and constructive synergy between Flemming Erik Rasmussen and Michael Børresen.