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[[File:DAC in the box.jpg|thumb|''DAC-in-the-Box'', an external [[digital-to-analog converter]] intended to improve the sound of the user's CD player]] '''Audio Alchemy''' was a [[high end]] audio equipment manufacturer based in [[California]], USA. The company was first formed in the late 1980s, producing many lines of relatively affordable audio products, including [[CD player]]s, transports, digital audio processors, and amplifiers. It went out of business in the late 1990s, was briefly relaunched in the early 2000s as Alchemy2, then was relaunched under the original Audio Alchemy name in early 2015 with a new line of higher-quality, full-featured audio products.<ref>Chris Martens, [http://www.theabsolutesound.com/articles/show-report-southern-california-canjam-2015-part-1/?page=4 "Show Report: CanJam SoCal 2015 Part 1"], ''The Absolute Sound'', March 31, 2015. Retrieved 2015-04-23.</ref> On October 6, 2016 Audio Alchemy was acquired by [[Elac]].<ref name="Press Release">{{cite web|last1=Staff|title=ELAC to Acquire Audio Alchemy|url=http://www.technologyintegrator.net/article/elac-acquire-audio-alchemy/|website=Technology Integrator|accessdate=25 July 2017|archive-date=31 July 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731100649/https://www.technologyintegrator.net/article/elac-acquire-audio-alchemy/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>[https://www.underwoodhifi.com/products/audio-alchemy Audio Alchemy] </ref> Audio Alchemy products make innovative use of the [[I²S]] audio interface, usually reserved for the internal connection between the CD transport and [[Digital-to-analog converter|DAC]] of a CD player. Audio Alchemy brought the interface out to a [[DIN connector]], allowing a very low [[jitter]] connection between the CD transport and external DAC, by transmitting the clock signal and the audio signal in parallel. This offers a superior alternative connectivity method to something like [[S/PDIF]], which sees the clock signal embedded into the audio signal. The process of extracting the clock signal from the data stream is where [[jitter]] is introduced{{Citation needed|date=June 2015}}. This interface is used in several original Audio Alchemy products and in the relaunched company's products. Perpetual Technologies and Camelot Technology also produce products that use the [[I²S]] interface.
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