• 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.