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Ideon is a fascinating and innovative audio company based in Greece, renown for their DACs, but more recently a complete suite of network streamers, isolators, digital cables and clocks.

Some words from Ideon Audio:

From Passion to Production

We didn’t plan to build a company — we simply couldn’t ignore the truth hidden in the music. Born in basements living rooms and music rooms, Ideon was fueled by one challenge: capturing emotional fidelity — the breath before a phrase, the shimmer of a cymbal, the silence that holds the soul of music.

The Founders

George Ligerakis - CEO and software architect, is a tech veteran, and lifelong audiophile, brings a strategic vision shaped by decades in software, innovation, and IT leadership. His vision is simple: "Make digital sound like real life."

Vasilis Tounas - VP and Chief Designer, is an award-winning circuit designer with 30 years in DAC innovation. He has always been obsessed with signal purity and power integrity—long before they were industry buzzwords.

Design Philosophy

Every Ideon product is designed and engineered in-house. The whole product. No off-the-shelf modules. No generic circuits. Every board, every line of code, every detail is our own. By integrating hardware, firmware, and software, we create synergy, a key differentiator. Optimization of every layer of the audio chain brings lifelike sound reproduction. We innovate because music deserves nothing less.

Over-engineering with a purpose…

At Ideon, “overengineering” isn’t a matter of style — it’s a necessity, because performance demands it. Overabundant power supplies with multiple dedicated, ultra stabilized power lines, using extremely expensive passive components; proprietary circuit layouts that eliminate noise, parallelized technologies and high-mass constructions to minimize vibration. Every microdetail is designed to chase the soul of music through the digital haze.

Digital to Analog Re-invented.

At Ideon a proprietary USB input is built in-house, in contrast with most of the industry. It’s the Ideon Triple Distillation USB - a three-stage architecture with femto clocks that erases digital noise before it reaches the DAC chip.

Proprietary parallelized DAC conversion engine with over 4,000 lines of code, in-house developed.

One stage Analog Output: no coupling capacitors. No power FETs. No multiple output stages. Powered by symmetrical, ultra-low-noise supplies, allowing detail and dynamics to emerge naturally—without artifacts or hype.

Signal Transfer: Timing and No Noise

Our proprietary 3R platform redefines signal integrity before it reaches the conversion stage:

• Re-generate: Buffer and restore signal integrity
• Re-drive: Clean amplification to preserve signal over distance
• Re-clock: Ultra-precise timing correction to eliminate jitter
• Isolate USB noise – from input to output, correctly.
• Optimize LAN input, eliminating related noise and re-timing the signal.