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Why the "La Fenice" Theater in Venice at the beginning? ... 

CanEVER AUDIO^® wants be a proposal for the music reproduction that first of all starts from the music itself.

Seems a simple approach, a Columbus’ egg, but it is really the key point.

The priorities are timing, rhythmic integrity, tonal accuracy and dynamics, all facets that together make a master musician superior to a merely average performer.

The technology comes after, it is at the service of the music reproduction and not vice versa.

CanEVER AUDIO^® achieves its aims through a 360° approach where all the parts of a unit are important to reach the target: stimulate emotions, as close as possible to a concerto experience.

With a technical approach only, even if close to perfection and based on the maximum informational retrieval and transmission, usually you stay fare away from the music.

CanEVER AUDIO^® designed and installed many OEM systems, and the Corum Audio^® system is a reference already presented to the people.

ZeroUno  DAC and now ZeroUno  PLUS are a new proposal with the ambition to be easily accepted by the experienced listeners grown up with the vinyl sound.

ZeroUno DAC has the ambition to be fitted in the analogue chain with satisfaction, without regrets.

ZeroUno PLUS is the PREAMPLIFIER challenge after the introduction of ZeroUno  DAC.

ZeroUno AMP and ZeroUno PRE are our reference power amplifier and analog preamplifier of ZeroUno family.

Designed, tuned and engineered mainly to enjoy the music and not the technology.

Accept a challenge:

even if you are not a fan of the classical music, go to a classical concert. You will listen to the real voices and the real instruments.

Go back home and listen the “same” music program, it is not important if the orchestra and interpreters are too famous and popular.

Probably your home listening session, even if with the number one orchestra and interpreters, will be very far away from the reality.

And it is explained why "La Fenice" Theater is at the beginning of our presentation; the Theater inspired the goal to reach, was and is the reference. A very ambitious goal but fundamental if you want real emotions from you audio system.  

ZeroUno units helps to keep the reproduction really very close to the reality.

Even if we believe no audio system can reproduce the real excitement of the music, by ZeroUno is possible to go very close.

Be aware of the challenge just said: the reaction of a some people is “the concert is bad sounding, bad acoustic, no details, fake” … comparing to the own audio system; it does not matter if you can listen to your own audio system for a few hours only and then you become tired with a very heavy head.

In the next months other proposals will follow with the same ambition of the ZeroUno DAC, PLUS, AMP and PRE.

Please be prepared for more interesting products to be introduced by CanEVER Audio in the future!

Recommended Components: Fall 2017 Edition Digital Processors

From the Stereophile Web Site https://www.stereophile.com/content/recommended-components-fall-2017-edition-digital-processors 

While digital processors with tubed output sections aren't new, the Italian CanEver Audio ZeroUno breaks with convention by looking less like a DAC than a 2A3-fueled power amp, its two Coke-bottle–style CV181 dual-triode tubes enjoying pride of place atop a distinctly attractive case. Under its skin is an ESS Sabre³² ES9018S chip, its eight internal differential DACs used in a quad-sum configuration.

Supplementing the ESS chip are multiple PCM and DSD filters of CanEver's own design, selectable via a menu system that also provides a switchable jitter filter, signal-polarity inversion, channel balance, and other niceties.

The ZeroUno supports PCM to 384kHz and DSD64 and 128 as DoP; newer versions of the CanEver DAC are said to provide MQA compatibility, though that was not available at the time of our review.

Art Dudley noted shortcomings in the ZeroUno's manual, especially when it came to navigating its software menu—we're told that this, too, has been refined in current production—but forgot those complaints after noting that the Italian DAC made his favorite files sound more colorful and "less hi-fi" than what he's used to hearing from digital playback.

Art's conclusion:

“…….I’ve heard no other digital product that succeeds quite so well as the ZeroUno at letting music sound like music. STRONGLY RECOMMENDED!”

CanEVER Audio celebrates over 150 pieces of ZeroUno DAC Digital Preamplifier sold to date with a Limited Edition release.

The ZeroUno DAC Limited Edition will be presented for the first time at the HighEnd 2019 in Munich. The ZeroUno DAC-LE will be produced in a number of 33 pieces only!

The circuit and mechanical design is that of the ZeroUno DAC. The same is valid for the software implemented. But a big effort is done in selecting and matching of the components installed.

All the passive and active components and are matched within 1%. The resistors at the output stage are all non inductive and made of carbon composition like the legendary Allen Bradley.

The upgrades just described are “simple” and intuitive but the tuning of the output stage returned an astonishing result.

The output stage of the existing ZeroUno DAC is playing already on a very high quality standard.
To improve that level of performances was a big challenge.

There are only two capacitors on the signal path, those that isolate the output vacuum stage.

Looking for a more liquid and open sound, CanEVER Audio  found the perfect partner in the Mundorf Supreme Silver in Oil capacitors.

At all times, the Mundorf Supreme Silver in Oil sound effortless and natural. The listening experience is extended at both ends of the spectrum with excellent micro details in the midrange and high frequencies. The reproduction is exquisitely refined with an excellent balance between being analytical and musical. This is a real step forward, even if CanEVER Audio started from an already elevated level.

The USB board comes with full MQA decoding as standard and it is galvanically isolated from the source. These, added to the already present “battery Mode” function improves even more the s/n ratio of the ZeroUno DAC.

Last but not least, some refinement has been done on the aesthetics. Similar to the LaScala Power Amplifier. The tube cages of the ZeroUno DAC-LE are made of PMMA cylinders covered by a metal cap made from stainless steel.

An attractive classic retro style, was reached. The clean lines, with the tube cage made of glass and the front plate integrated into the front, give an even more elegant impression.

The ZeroUno DAC Limited Edition Digital Preamplifier will be produced in a number of 33 units only.

Customers are welcomed to visit CanEVER Audio in BOOTH M08 in Hall 3 during the High End Show 2019 in Munich!

 Also this year CanEVER Audio to gain the attention of the international trade press with its products. After Art Dudley last year, another world-renowned journalist visited us with Herb Reichert for an informative conversation. Read a short report on Herb Reichert's DAC / Headphone Amplifier, which we recently introduced at the High End 2019, on the website of INNER FIDELITY, the offshoot of STEREOPHILE in the USA, which focuses on headphones and headphone amplifiers.

Herb Reichert is here 

CanEVER Audio proudly presents the

ZeroUno DAC-HPA --- Headphone Amp & Digital Preamplifier 

The ZeroUno DAC-HPA´s DAC part is based on the circuit of the acclaimed ZeroUno DAC. Different from the tube output stage of the ZeroUno DAC, the ZeroUno DAC-HPA comes with a discrete output stage based on selected transistors. The design concept of that output stage is inspired by that of the CanEVER LaScala Power Amp.

The whole design concept of the ZeroUno DAC-HPA does not use any capacitors or integrated circuits, like operational amplifiers, nor any kind of feedback loops in the signal path!

The ZeroUno DAC-HPA comes with four digital inputs (1x RCA single ended; 1x AES/EBU balanced; 1x Optical TOSLINK & USB).

On the front, there is one 1x 6mm standard headphone jack and a NEUTRIK 4-pin connector to drive headphones with balanced cables.

On the rear, the ZeroUno DAC-HPA offers two pairs of analog output connectors. In the standard configuration, all connectors are RCA/Single Ended. Upon customer request, CanEVER Audio offers for one pair of outputs a true balanced signal including XLR connectors based on output transformers made by Lundahl.

The circuit of the ZeroUno DAC-HPA comes in pure Class A with a super linear driver able to deliver high current to drive even headphones representing critical loads. The analog outputs on the rear are able to drive power amps or powered speaker without any loss in quality.

Beside the volume knob on the front, the ZeroUno DAC-HPA comes with a remote control, which not only let the customer change the volume, but also offers features like BALANCE, PHASE, MUTE and a central button to change between the different inputs.

A detailed SET-UP Menu let the customer configure the ZeroUno DAC-HPA in various ways.

The official introduction of the ZeroUno DAC-HPA will take place at the coming High End Show in Munich.

Customers are welcomed to visit CanEVER Audio in BOOTH M08 in Hall 3.

The CanEver Audio OLIMPICO Power Amp is a homage to the famous Teatro Olimpico, located in Vicenza, designed by the Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio, a pearl for design and listening experience.

The OLIMPICO Power Amp project is based on that of the LaScala Power Amp, marking the top in the CanEver Audio product line. But unlike the LaScala, which comes in two separate cabinets (power supply & amp circuit) the OLIMPICO comes in one single box.

While the LaSacla is able to deliver a maximum output power of 120W per channel in pure Class A, the OLIMPICO has been tailored to deliver 50W pure Class A “only”.

As many audiophile experience over time, the sound quality of an amp does not correlate with its output power. Sometimes the sound of a “small” amp combined with matching speakers is surprisingly good. Listening to some well designed SET amps or those based on the First Watt projects of Nelson Pass may be an example.

The CanEVER Audio OLIMPICO Power Amp is positioned right between those “flea powered” amps demanding really high efficient speakers to sound good and those mostly oversized amps delivering several hundreds of watts.

Delivering solid 50 Wrms in pure Class A, the CanEver Audio OLIMPICO Power Amp can drive any seriously designed speaker to its top level of performance.

The lines remain true to the original lines of its big brother - the CanEver Audio LaScala Power Amp - revisiting them with a more attractive flair. The character remains unique and unmistakable.

The OLIMPICO Power Amp was designed with the aim of creating a smart, simple and useful power amplifier to highlight the original concept of a "hybrid amplifier with as less stages as possible, no feedback loops and without any capacitor in the signal path".

The basic architecture of the OLIMPICO Power Amp, the output transformers, the interstage transformers and the tubes are the same as used inside its big brother the LaScala.

The first stage of the OLIMPICO is based on a TRIODE stage responsible for the whole voltage amplification followed by a current stage designed around only two power MOSFETs per channel. These stages are coupled by interstage transformers, so not a single capacitor touches the sound of the audio signal.

Everything is designed, inspired by the Canever Audio Leitmotif: The Natural Sound!

The two output transformers of the OLIMPICO Power Amp are specified up to a maximum power of 400 Watts. These transformers guaranty high linearity, wide bandwidth and naturally isolate the loudspeakers in case of fault.

Working at “only” 50Wrms pure Class A compared with the 400 W of reservoir power, the OLIPMPICO blends comfort with versatility and makes it perfect for relaxed everyday listening experience – but without ever compromising its technological spirit.

The CanEVER Audio OLIMPICO Power Amp is designed based on 25 years of experience. The result is an amplifier, which leaves no room for doubt about the performance it can deliver.