Cambridge Audio DacMagic 100 - Digital to Analogue Converter with Toslink, S/PDIF, and USB Inputs Featuring 24-bit Wolfson DAC - Silver

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We started with some 24bit/192kHz files courtesy of our reference streamer via the coaxial input. R.E.M.'s Losing My Religion sounds detailed and fast. It's light on its feet and capable of impressive subtlety in both voices and instruments. Whatever your music source, you'll enjoy genuine hi-fi quality sound by using the Cambridge Audio DacMagic 100. A Wolfson WM8742 24-bit DAC is teamed up with Cambridge Audio's wealth of digital engineering knowledge to create a sound that's vibrant, detailed and remarkably free from jitter. Jitter is especially prevalent on music sent via network devices or hard drives and can give the sound a harsh and unnatural quality. Devised by software specialist Anagram Technologies of Switzerland and licensed – exclusively, to date – to Cambridge, this uses high-power digital signal processing technology to perform the digital filtering function. An 0.7 dB bump is typical for an amplifier with a 50 Ωoutput source impedance. It's the reason you buy a Benchmark DAC1 HDR if you don't want this to happen. Likewise, the peaks at 2kHz and 6kHz are from peaks in the Ultrasone Edition 8's impedance.

Power on the unit and select the input source that you wish to listen to using the source button located on the front panel. Minimum phase filters do without the pre-ringing, but do have some phase shift in the audio band. The actual frequency response is, to all intents and purposes, identical to that of the linear phase filter. The 'steep' option, meanwhile, is another linear phase filter, but with faster roll-off above 20kHz so that, effectively, no aliasing occurs. Using the appropriate plug for your region, connect the supplied power adaptor to the DacMagic 100. As a result, we are treated to a version of the deluxe upsampling technology first seen in the 840C and 740C CD players from the Azur range. A plastic base is included for it to stand vertically, say, on your desk. If you use this, the front-panel lettering doesn't rotate.Missing: No remote control. No analog inputs. No AES digital inputs or outputs. Not USB powered (always needs wall power). Balanced output 10 dB below standard +4 levels. DacMagic 100 es un dispositivo increíblemente adaptable: es compatible con archivos digitales de prácticamente cualquier formato como, por ejemplo, archivos originales de estudio de 24 bits de máxima calidad o archivos de audio sin pérdidas almacenados en su equipo. Cuenta con tres opciones de conectividad digital y la capacidad de conectar hasta cuatro dispositivos simultáneamente: DacMagic 100 combina un gran número de mejoras de audio digital. La configuración del dispositivo es muy intuitiva, lo que permite empezar a disfrutar de una mejor calidad de audio en cuestión de minutos. PRINCIPIO DE DISEÑO: EL SONIDO ES PRIMORDIAL The DacMagic Plus is a lightweight piece of consumer equipment that is sonically superb, although the slowly-responding volume control and its plastic knob is a real disappointment. The input LEDs blink if the input goes away, for instance, if your computer is asleep and your DacMagic is left on on your desk.

Generalmente, los convertidores de digital a analógico de los dispositivos digitales habituales carecen del nivel esperado y no permiten obtener toda la calidad de audio de las fuentes de sonido. DacMagic 100 toma directamente la señal de audio digital del dispositivo para omitir la tarjeta de sonido o el DAC del mismo. Procesa digitalmente la señal de audio mediante nuestra tecnología de diseño personalizado para mejorar enormemente la calidad del sonido y reducir los niveles de distorsión. Esto produce mejores niveles de detalle, una claridad espectacular y un escalado muy profundo de toda su música. COMPATIBILIDAD Notable: Astounding technical DAC performance regardless of price. Absolute polarity switch. Three easily-selected digital filters. Headphone output. Standards of CD replay being what they are, it probably won't lift many modern players beyond recognition, but it could give a new lease of life to some older models and for computer-based music replay it is an excellent choice.Here is is again from my Mac playing-out from iTunes, by USB this time, the worst possible interface: Is it a jump in performance on the original? Yes. It sounds better and does more, and if you value the extra features then the DacMagic Plus could be ideal.