{"id":2024,"date":"2023-06-27T16:06:40","date_gmt":"2023-06-27T14:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/?p=2024"},"modified":"2023-06-27T16:06:44","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T14:06:44","slug":"musical-fidelity-m3x-dac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/news\/musical-fidelity-m3x-dac\/","title":{"rendered":"Musical Fidelity M3x DAC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The M3x DAC is the new entry in affordable high-end DACs. With its technical prowess, superb technical performance, careful PCB design in Musical Fidelity tradition, meticulous power supply layout and excellent build quality, the new M3x DAC offers a truly outstanding offering modern high-end DAC design.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Technical Talk<br>The M3x DAC employs an upsampling DAC design with the SRC4392, a high-end sample rate converter from Burr Brown, tasked to re-clock all PCM signals and convert them into 24 bits and 192 kHz. Up-sampling done in this sophisticated and clean implementation allows us to reach the lowest distortion levels and maintain and elevate your digital music playback. The PCM1795 DAC handles PCM rates of up to 24 bits and 192kHz and native and DoP DSD of up to DSD256. DSD files are not up-sampled, but played in their original format.The single ended RCA and balanced XLR outputs each have their own output buffer. Both output stages deliver superior audio quality, exhibit very low noise, large output voltage swing and high current drive. The excellent gain bandwidth and very fast slew rate produce exceptionally low distortion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1281\" src=\"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/MF-M3x-DAC-back.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2026\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/MF-M3x-DAC-back.png 1920w, https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/MF-M3x-DAC-back-1280x854.png 1280w, https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/MF-M3x-DAC-back-980x654.png 980w, https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/MF-M3x-DAC-back-480x320.png 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) and (max-width: 1280px) 1280px, (min-width: 1281px) 1920px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Super Silent Power Transformer<br>The M3x DAC displays our continued development of our Super Silent Power Transformers. In-dustrial grade power sockets with EMI filter and DC blocker stop interferences and eliminate transformer hum. The toroidal transformer with low core saturation is ideal for audio applications and especially perfect for digital audio due to its extremely low electromagnetic radiation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Correct PCB Design &amp; Layout<br>Digital to analogue converters, compared to analogue amplifiers, present their own design challanges. They work in different domains, have their own requirements and need to be trea-ted as such. Power requirements are unique and solutions designed for amplifiers will not show similar results when paired with digital circuitry. We have always held circuit board design and layout up to the highest of standards at Musical Fidelity. We are not believers of flashy board design just for the sake of looks. The design &amp; layout need to be custom-tailored to each application, measure well AND sound as envisioned. Only then have we done our job. At this point, we have given the listener a palpable sense of the re-cording venue that places the performers in a real-time holographic space in their own homes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" src=\"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/M3x-dac-black-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2025\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/M3x-dac-black-1.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/M3x-dac-black-1-1280x853.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/M3x-dac-black-1-980x653.jpg 980w, https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/M3x-dac-black-1-480x320.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) and (max-width: 1280px) 1280px, (min-width: 1281px) 1920px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Mechanically Sound<br>Paying close attention to every aspect of the M3x DAC, we get a tremendous performer. The mechanical construction is uncompromisingly rigid and solid in typical Musical Fidality tradition. The front panel is milled from an extruded aluminium profile. Together with the heavy steel case this protects the internals against outer electromagnetic fields, and in the same way, the rest of your HiFi gear against electromagnetic fields generated by the M3x DAC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1281\" src=\"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/MF-M3x-DAC-silver-front.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2029\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/MF-M3x-DAC-silver-front.png 1920w, https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/MF-M3x-DAC-silver-front-1280x854.png 1280w, https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/MF-M3x-DAC-silver-front-980x654.png 980w, https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/MF-M3x-DAC-silver-front-480x320.png 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) and (max-width: 1280px) 1280px, (min-width: 1281px) 1920px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The M3x DAC is the new entry in affordable high-end DACs. With its technical prowess, superb technical performance, careful PCB design in Musical Fidelity tradition, meticulous power supply layout and excellent build quality, the new M3x DAC offers a truly outstanding offering modern high-end DAC design. Technical TalkThe M3x DAC employs an upsampling DAC design [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2027,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-digital-source"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vumetre.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}