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Shine a Light on Music
Digital audio files can be packed with incredible musical detail, but they need to be converted to analogue first for you to hear it. And how good it sounds will depend on how well the digital audio from your computer, network player or CD is converted. DacMagic 200M’s twin ESS DACs decrease crosstalk and improve separation because there’s a DAC dedicated to both left and right channels. These fully balanced, optimised, and efficient signal paths reveal previously hidden glittering musical prizes.
Why You Need Some DacMagic
Perhaps your vintage amp lacks the digital inputs for today’s listening choices. Maybe the DACs in your hi-fi setup just need a helping hand. Or you hate how your computer down-samples audio streams before they’ve hit your headphones. One thing’s for sure, DacMagic 200M is a dedicated hi-fi separate that beats integrated DACs for pure sound performance.
Desktop Dream Team
DacMagic 200M can be used with a variety of digital sources, maybe kit you already own. Alternatively, you can pair it with its sibling – our MXN10 compact network player. These half-width hi-fi heroes share the same family look and are now available in a choice of special edition black or lunar grey. Together they make a very credible desktop hi-fi system – or ‘head-fi’ if you prefer.
Vital Connections
Being compact, but not miniscule, means that DacMagic 200M has room for a plethora of digital inputs and analogue outputs. Two pairs of co-ax and optical inputs, a USB computer in and Bluetooth aptX for wireless connection keep the most demanding listener happy. A pair of balanced XLRs, unbalanced RCAs and a ¼” (6.3mm) headphone-out complete the picture.
Sounds Like Team Spirit
Looking for fast, accurate retrieval with no upsampling to keep your music intact? Then DacMagic 200M’s powerful XMOS processor can handle 1000 million instructions per second, to send digital information to the dual DACs, which work asynchronously at a clock speed of 100Mhz to convert digital to analogue in a ‘bit perfect’ way.
Choice and Status
DacMagic 200M’s aluminum fascia has a button to select one of 4 possible digital inputs, another to pick one of 3 digital filters to suit your listening taste, and a volume control if you’re using it as a headphone amp. There are LED lights to confirm your input and filter selection, with additional ones that indicate the incoming music resolution.
DIGITAL TO ANALOGUE CONVERTERS Dual ESS ES9028Q2M DACs
DIGITAL FILTER Selectable, Fast – Slow – Short delay
FREQUENCY RESPONSE 10Hz to 50kHz (±1dB)
THD+N @ 1KHZ 0DBFS <0.0005% (A-Weighted)
SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO >115dB (A-Weighted)
CROSSTALK @ 10KHZ < -110dB
OUTPUT IMPEDANCE <50 Ohms (unbal), <100 Ohm (bal)
MAX. OUTPUT LEVEL (UNBALANCED) 2.1V rms (fixed or variable – user selectable)
MAX. OUTPUT LEVEL (BALANCED) 4.2V rms (fixed or variable – user selectable)
DIGITAL INPUT WORD WIDTHS SUPPORTED 16bit (Bluetooth), 16-24bit (Optical, Coaxial), 16-24bit (USB)
DIGITAL INPUT SAMPLING FREQUENCIES SUPPORTED 44.1kHz to 96kHz PCM, DoP64 (Optical), 44.1kHz to 192kHz PCM, DoP64 (Coaxial), 44.1kHz to 768kHz PCM, Native DSD 64x to 512x, DoP 64x to 256x (USB)
MQA COMPATIBILITY Full decoding (Core + Renderer)
BLUETOOTH v4.2, A2DP profile, SBC and AptX codecs
ROON TESTED Yes
HEADPHONE OUTPUT THD+N < 0.001% at 1kHz 0dBFS @ 100mW into 32ohm
HEADPHONE OUTPUT S/N > 115dB (A-Weighted)
MAX OUTPUT POWER >300mW @ 32ohm, >65mW @ 150ohm
FREQUENCY RESPONSE 10Hz - 50kHz (±1dB)
RECOMMEND HEADPHONE IMPEDANCE 10 Ohm to 600 Ohm
MAX POWER CONSUMPTION 12W
COLOUR Lunar Grey
DIMENSIONS (HXWXD) 52 x 215 x 191mm; (2.0 x 8.6 x 7.6”)
WEIGHT 1.2kg/2.6lbs
