The diamond-like amorphous carbon phase was obtained by means of detonation compression of mixtures of an explosive with soot or graphite. The pycnometric density of powders after compression and treatment in boiling acids achieved 3.42 g/cm3. The X-ray and TEM study showed that fine-grained crystalline and nanocrystalline diamond was also present in the samples in addition to the diamond-like amorphous phase.