![]() Like the remaining remnants of tomato ketchup leaving the bottle, bass is thick and fast and overall this DAC is nicely balanced with bass and treble, if perhaps not as thick and enveloping as the Qutest. Fine if you demand it in your system, but not so if you want all round neutrality to tie in with many systems that stand up similarly. So unlike the UK election choices, it’s on centre ground to something like a Mytek Brooklyn which can be airy with treble. It’s nice and balanced and neutral as a DAC, like the Chord. Initially I get a sense the treble is nice and sparkly, but not bright, which is pleasing as this DAC makes much of cymbals and other instruments or sampled sounds that stand centre stage in a recording. Everything has stayed the same except a swap out from the Chord Qutest. I’m using it with single ended RCA outputs to my pre amp. Listening, the Musical Fidelity MX-DAC is impressionable with a wide soundstage as a stand out trait. A change in DAC can more than make up for different formats and sampling frequencies. It’s a ‘24/192’ DAC, but let’s be frank, who actually owns a lot of downloadable Hi-Res content beyond CD collection quality and even if so, is having a DAC to ‘only’ 24/192 really a disadvantage? I always emphasise the quality of digital audio is mostly DAC dependent and not format dependent. Promote slight nuanced changes in audio, as is commonly used.Īs a 32bit upsampling design it doesn’t deal with the gargantuan sampling rates common to new DACs nowadays. Sample rate indicators for Hi-Res and DSD formats and a filter button to That’s into the MX-DAC of course!Īt the front is a simple sliding on/off switch, You can inject all your digital audio needs into it with asynchronous USB 2.0, two optical / toslink inputs, and two coaxial RCA connections. In HiFi terms the equivalent of heated seats in a 1982 Vauxhall Chevette perhaps. What is great about this box of tricks is that it has both balanced and line out analogue connections which is odd and unusual at the price. Using a Burr Brown DAC chip, it’s a half width design which will be particularly nice for small HiFi set-ups and desk based systems. The MX-DAC from Musical Fidelity is not new but it’s their entry level stand alone DAC in the range. Watch the film instead? Read the article, or do both? Admittedly I have no comparable priced DAC at the moment. A £1200/$1500 Chord Qutest DAC versus this £500/$640 Musical Fidelity MX-DAC. If not – then why would you bother? So it’s about value, and value is to different people, different.īut within the spectrum of value judgements lie common threads as to what is value and it’s to this end I have a £700 difference thing going on here…. But whatever, you could adopt this mantra to the consideration, is say an extra £700 worth spending on a product when the performance *might* be only ‘slightly better’? If it is much better to you personally, then of course you’ll go for it. “A little bit more than an ‘ot dog” then.Īs William Blake said, ‘The Path of Excess Leads to the Tower of Wisdom’, or was that the electronic recording artist Enigma who had that stamped on their MCMXC a.D album cover? It sounds like an alcohol inspired statement. And to review HiFi you have to consider more than your own view. I’m often on that journey too and I don’t mind paying for reducing returns, but not everyone does. So the price to performance value judgement doesn’t mean much to him. He is in pursuit of the perfect HiFi always – the continual upgrade path. As you spend more, your dollar or pound gets you more, but at a diminishing level. What about the Musical Fidelity MX-DAC…….A friend of mine doesn’t believe in the law of diminishing returns.
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