Black Lion Audio Sparrow Mk2 ADC Analog to Digital Converter - Red

Black Lion Audio Sparrow mk2 Red : a punchy, focused and clear sounding AD converter.

The Black Lion Audio RED Sparrow MKII ADC is a 2-channel analog-to-digital converter featuring selectable sample rates ranging from 44.1kHz - 192kHz. The Sparrow MKII ADC ensures optimal conversion, using Black Lion Audio's custom technology to ensure supreme signal integrity. Once you track with it, you’ll find other converters sound hard, processed, or lifeless. Use it for mastering, two-track classical or jazz recordings, final mixes, or whatever application your studio needs.

Everything works as it should, no issues. Purchased as new directly from Black Lion audio (USA). In mint condition. Supplied with its power supply. These units are now difficult to find and no longer in production. Studio use only. Just a very minor scratch in a button. That does not affect the sound in anyway. 

Condition:

• This is a barely used unit. 
• Please, see all photos. 
• This unit has been tested and I can confirm it is working as it should. 
• This unit includes its power cable.
• It does not include original box.

Please feel free to ask any questions

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The Sparrow mk2 RED (red faceplate) is also a two-channel ADC but is more comparable to THE acclaimed FM192 modification. With a slightly different design and components than the Black Sparrow, it is in a class of its own. It features a low-noise, low-ripple converter circuit design and the same novel 220/270SP master clock that’s found in our FM192. Rich, euphonic frequency response, shimmering top end, and fat low-end extension are all elements of this uniquely musical converter. Once you track with it, you’ll find other converters sound hard, processed, or lifeless. Use it for mastering, two-track classical or jazz recordings, final mixes, or whatever application your studio needs.

The Black Lion Audio Sparrow mk2 Red (red faceplate) represents a portion of research into delta sigma conversion and clocking architecture.  Instead of using one converter for stereo conversion, it employs two converters in a parallel-balanced circuit to drastically boost converter dynamic range.  Add to this its unique approach to converter configuration, the 220/270SP master clock with wide Q third harmonic crystal oscillators, advanced PLL recovery, and a low noise analog path, and all of these elements together will yield the richest, clearest and fattest sounding A/D converter. 

Black Lion's Sparrow mk2 is housed in a 1u 1/2 rack chassis, featuring XLR and ¼" balanced inputs, LED metering, BNC word clock I/O, AES output, coax & optical S/PDIF output, and user selectable signal calibration accommodating nominal input signal levels from +11dBu down to -10dBV.  It features sampling rates from 44.1kHz -192kHz, with a clocking architecture that features low jitter and wide Q third harmonic crystal oscillators, and because of the quality of the clock multiplier and PLL recovery stages, performance will not degrade should the converter be synched to a lower quality word clock reference.

The A/D conversion process is a tricky beast to tame. Because conversion requires so much current movement, there are plenty of places for unwanted noise to be created, both within the signal chain and in the power supply. This unwanted noise manifests itself within the audio signal as a grainy distortion, and often resides in the upper frequencies.

Features:

• Balanced inputs (XLR or ¼")
• Selectable user calibration
• Word clock input and output
• Sampling rates from 44.1kHz -192kHz
• AES, coax S/PDIF, and optical S/PDIF
• LED metering
• Accommodates nominal input signal levels from +11dBu down to -10dBV
• 1u high, ½ space rack mount chassis
• User selectable 110/220 voltage input

Specifications:

• Dynamic range: 120dB Black and Red Sparrow Unweighted. 122dB for the White Sparrow Unweighted. (124dB A-Weighted)
• Max analog input before digital clipping: >+24dBu
• Inputs: balanced analog = TRS and XLR Clock = 75 Ohm BNC
• Outputs: SPDIF = coaxial (75 Ohm) and optical, AES-EBU (110 Ohm) word clock = 75 Ohm BNC word clock lock = indicator LED
• Sampling rates: 44.1kHz - 192kHz
• Bit rate: 24 bit
• Latency: ≤ 65/Fs
• Digital audio output level indicator: bi-color LED (green/amber/red)