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Batch 11 · Meridian DAC

Below the
noise, music.

Desktop DACs and headphone amplifiers, hand-assembled in Southeast Portland and measured one unit at a time — so the only thing you hear is the recording.

Reserve a Meridian →Watch unit 0412 get measured
Studio monitors and a mixing console in warm evening light

Measurement report · excerpt

SerialHA-M-0412
THD+N, 1 kHzbelow −120 dB
SignedJ. Okafor · 03.14
Fig. 01 — Meridian, bead-blast silver45.52° N, 122.66° W

Our position

We don't chase louder or warmer. We chase lower — the noise floor, the distortion, the distance between you and the room where it was recorded.

— Written on the whiteboard above bench two

The components · Batch 11

Four things,
made properly.

We build a short catalogue on purpose. Every unit is hand-assembled, measured one at a time, serial-numbered, and shipped with a report signed by the hands that built it.

Meridian DAC front three-quarter view, milled unibody silver aluminum shell with a single amber status light and engraved serial number plate

Meridian DAC

$649

Dual ES9039 chips, measured THD+N below −120 dB, milled unibody shell. USB, optical and coaxial in; balanced and single-ended out.

No. 01 · In stock, batch 11Add to bench +
Solstice headphone amplifier with headphones plugged in, on a walnut desk

Solstice Headphone Amp

$489

Discrete Class A output, silent volume from a machined brass knob.

No. 02Add to bench +
Hand-terminated RCA connections on a black enclosure

Isthmus Interconnects

$89

Silver-plated OCC copper pair, hand-terminated, half-meter.

No. 03Add to bench +
Analog meters and machined controls
The matched pair

Meridian + Solstice Stack

The matched pair, serial-numbered together, stacking feet included. Measured as a chain, not just as parts — one report, both signatures.

$1049$89 less than apart
No. 04 · Serials HA-S-0401 → 0440Reserve a pair +

Film · 4 min 12 s

Unit 0412,
from sweep
to signature.

No voiceover, no music bed. Just the analyzer, the sweep, and Jonah reading numbers aloud before he signs the report that ships in the box.

THD+N, Meridianbelow −120 dB
Output, SolsticeDiscrete Class A
ReportSigned, every unit
Headphones resting on a mixing console under a single lamp
Measured, then signed.Bench two · Southeast Portland
04:12
Soldering a board under a magnifier lamp at the Halcyon bench

The bench

Small by choice. Measured by hand.

Halcyon builds desktop DACs and headphone amplifiers in Portland, one unit at a time, for listeners who want to hear the recording and nothing else.

Today the shop is still small by choice. Enclosures are milled from a single billet of 6061 aluminum, anodized in-house, then fitted by hand to boards we populate, burn in and measure under the same roof.

Nothing leaves without a number on it and a name beside that number. If it ever comes back, it comes back to the same bench.

6061
single-billet aluminum enclosures
1
signed measurement report per unit
10 yr
transferable warranty

Fig. 04 — Bench one, billet stock for batch 11Portland, Oregon

The Solstice with headphones plugged in

Detail study · The knob

Silent volume, from a machined brass knob.

The Solstice volume knob is machined from solid brass and fitted by hand. No scratch as you reach for the quiet passage. It will patina. We think it should.

Meet the Solstice →
01 / Proof

Signed measurement report

Every unit ships with its own — your serial, your curves, a real signature.

02 / Material

Single-billet 6061

Enclosures milled from one block of aluminum, anodized in-house.

03 / Promise

Ten-year transferable warranty

Repairs done at the Portland bench. Sell it on; the promise goes too.

04 / Hands

Hand-assembled in Portland

Boards populated, fitted and measured under one roof.

Every unit · one report

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1 signed measurement report10 yr transferable warranty

The Bench Log

Hear about a batch before it's a waitlist.

One short letter when a new batch opens — the serial range, the measurements of the first unit off the bench, and first claim on a number before we post it publicly. Around six letters a year. Never a sale.

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