It has been several years since DCHFG visited LTA Audio located in the cozy Takoma Park, MD suburb of Washington, DC.

A lot has happened since our first visit. LTA has now expanded to a second floor with a dedicated listening room and space for engineering prototype work.

With all this activity, LTA has been working on several new products and upgrades to their existing line of audiophile ware.

For this DCHFG listening event, two unreleased products were featured. First was a brand new 120-watt mono block amplifier design based on David Berning‘s, DCHFG member, ZOTL technology.

The system was driven by the soon to be released LTA DAC which is a first for LTA. Many DAC chips were evaluated but eventually settled on the extremely popular TDA1541A chip that has been successfully used by many boutique audio vendors. This 16-bit chip outputs to ZOTL Tube circuitry for connection to downstream components. The DAC also employs a rich set of input options including the usual S/PDIF, optical, and USB Type-C. Also available are i2S inputs and HDMI ARC. The latter is becoming increasingly popular for allowing consumers to connect their TVs and control volume with their TV remote.

David Berning was present and gave insight into these designs to DCHFG members.

For the technically interested, a tour was given of both the upstairs engineering lab and downstairs manufacturing facility.

The audition system made use of the Pure Audio Project speaker with source material coming from a computer supplied with FLAC music files.

As always, the meeting concluded with the famous DCHFG raffle where members received audiophile treats in the form of CD and file based recordings.

DCHFG would like to thank LTA Audio for their generosity in opening their facility for this listening event.