Amber 5 is by far our best entry level DAC ever, with 15 years of experience optimizing the old Level 4 to become Amber 1, 2 and eventually 3 and 4. It starts shipping in April 01 2024 as a successor to Amber 4. Following our huge efforts to create the Baltic-3 and the Horizon DAC we gained enough knowhow and confidence to redesign the Amber DAC from ground up, and offer an entirely new product.

Circa around November 25th 2021 we start testing Amber-4, while technical necessities caused us to phase out Amber-3 entirely in February 2022.

A huge success of the new Engine11 DAC board - made us re-think the future of Amber programme and eventually in March 2024 we decided to offer the Engine11 also to the Amber product line.

Making it the cheapest DAC to use this remarkably superior digital engine.

The change of name from Amber 4 to 5 is nothing more but the refflection of the engine upgrade. ​ ​ We left untouched the analog section which we feel is optimal for the job. It took a total redesign of the digital section.

It retains surprisingly a lot of the Baltic good qualities - pure, natural, effortless, spacious and super dynamic presentation worthy of at least twice as expensive product.

This DAC, thanks to having output buffer - can drive particularly well the transistor amps.

We are very proud of this DAC, and the fact that at an entry level price we can outperform any competitor known to us.

This DAC gives joy and bliss in spades. Some other highlights are: copper output caps, CLC power filter with tube rectifier 6X5, true balanced option, volume control option, full analog preamp of very high quality, USB circuit JLS of the highest caliber, newly designed muting to avoid pops and clicks in computer operation, and many many more.

This DAC will play DSD512 ! Amber-5 introduction

The most popular line of Lampizator DACS just gotten better ! Completely redesigned digital engine High End analog section with improved tube output loosely based on Baltic3 New power transformer and linear power supplies True Copper output capacitors New “JLS usb card” as standard now ​ More musical than ever,

Free of any artifacts, very direct, liquid and fast sound with improved transparency and detail. ​ in design of the new digital engine we managed to squeeze the last drop of musicality from PCM and DSD files also DSD being no longer limited to 256X but fully natively 512 - which almost nobody uses anyway - but making this change was was well worth it.

MAIN SPECS: 4 main variants - Single Ended RCA , no preamp/volume Single Ended RCA , WITH preamp/volume

Fully Balanced & Single Ended RCA , no preamp/volume

Fully Balanced & Single Ended RCA , WITH preamp/volume

New OLED display, no more LCD (taken from the Pacific project)

Software driven signal routing, no more relays

Total muting to keep switching noises down Plays every digital file known no drivers needed for any computer operating system Volume control models have one analog input for analog sources (active input with tubes and volume)