We've been making top-performance digital-to-analogue converters since the early days of CD. That means the M1 DAC benefits from almost 25 years of continual development, drawing on successive acclaimed DAC designs.
Whatever your digital source – from CD to computer to TV set-top box or DVD/Blu-ray player – the M1 DAC can upsample and convert it, producing stunning 24bit/192kHz resolution audio. In comparison, CD resolution is a mere 16bit/44.1kHz.
This was because 'Up On Cripple Creek' is a track I've known, loved and used as a sound arbiter for a half-century. What the MX-DAC delivered made me question DACs with five-figure price tags, but that would be to wear a particular nouveau pauvre hat I find dehumanising and unattractive. The point of astounding-value hardware is not to undermine the existence of the extreme high-end, but to.
- It has been the same with their other headphone which haven't been very popular here. If the amazing EB50 had 8 drivers and came from an obscure Chinese company rather a British company which has made some of the best HiFi of the last 30 odd years things might have been different.
- Maybe Musical Fidelity is still more convinced about the quality of CD players compared to streaming. There is after all an M3 series CD player with its own digital inputs. Those willing to invest in ultimate sound quality using music files will have to look for an external DAC, those with an ‘i’ device or a PC to play downloaded files can.
Pg drives usb devices driver download windows 10. The M1 DAC features four digital inputs: balanced, USB, optical and coaxial. It is an asynchronous design with awesome performance: from its low-distortion, noise levels and jitter-minimising technology to its high-quality power supply, the M1 DAC surpasses the standards of DACs costing many times its price.
The M1 DAC has been met with incredible acclaim. Stereophile's review said it 'offers performance that is close to the state of the art', calling it 'a piece of kit that can transform your system ' and 'a stunning bargain'.
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Meanwhile, the review from computer-audio specialist, AudioStream described the M1 DAC as 'a wonderfully musical-sounding DAC, and one that offered many hours of pure enjoyment.'
Our aim with the V90-DAC was, on balance, to make the best DAC in the world without breaking the bank.
Examine any high-end DAC, and the first thing you see is massive casework. As far as we are aware, this contributes nothing to its technical or sonic performance. Take the top off, and in most cases you will find a complex layout that suggests performance. However, further analysis will show that the real work of signal handling and data conversion is done by a dozen or so components. The rest is decoration, designed to suggest competence. These observations formed the basis for the V90-DAC concept.
We wanted to build the best DAC in the world, but to sell it at a fair price. Using state-of-the-art design techniques and components, we set out to design a DAC to produce top-notch technical performance – housed in a modest, reasonably priced package.
The V90-DAC has a balance of measurements: distortion, noise, linearity, bandwidth, and phase, which in their totality are not significantly bettered by any product at any price.
If you hunt around, you may find the occasional DAC that claims to have slightly better performance than the V90-DAC in one area or another, but in totality will not exceed it. There are plenty of competitors shouting about their new, wonderful version of the emperor’s new clothes, but they offer little or nothing in real performance to back up their claims. Just lots of talk about subjective this or that, but all of it is just a matter of opinion.
The V90-DAC is a matter of fact. Its technical and sonic performance is superlative. There are better DACs but they may cost twenty or thirty times more.
Buying the V90-DAC is your personal statement of independence from overhyped claims.
V90-DAC D/A converter in brief
- Exceptional technical performance combined with value for money
- Multiple digital inputs – coax, 2 x optical and asynchronous USB
- Low output impedance
- 32bit DAC
- 24bit 192kHz re-clocking and up-sampling on all inputs
- Extended linearity
- Outstanding channel separation
- Beautiful, considered build quality
Reviews
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Read the AUDIO review.
Also read the HiFi einsnull review.