M1 DAC

by Musical Fidelity
in Electronics

Musical Fidelity was pretty well the first company in the world to make a DAC. Since then they have had an unbroken lineage of top performing, top value digital products. The new M1 DAC is the fruit of 23 years of making top performance DACs. It has four digital inputs: coax, optical, balanced and USB.

The M1 DAC will lock on to any S/P diff signal at: 32kHz, 44.1kHz, 48kHz, 88kHz, 96kHz and 192kHz. The input sampling frequency is displayed on the front panel.  It also upsamples to 24-bit at 192kHz.  Using top quality digital components in carefully designed circuit configurations which are subtly implemented on brilliant pcb layouts, the result is state-of-the-art performance. The M1 DAC has a high quality power supply with choke filtration on the mains input. This, effectively, is a mains signal conditioner which increases the performance and value of the M1 to even greater heights.

The M1 DAC has vanishingly low distortion, typically less than 0.005% across the band. Frequency response is ruler flat. Jitter is extremely low. The noise ratio is outstanding, one of the quietest DACs in the world regardless of price.