DETAILS
PRODUCT Meitner Audio MA3
ORIGIN Canada
TYPE Network-attached/ USB DAC
WEIGHT 7.4kg DIMENSIONS (WxHxD) 435 x 92 x 400mm
FEATURES
- 16x DSD MDAC2 DACs coupled with proprietary MDAT2 upsampling
- Bespoke VControl volume adjustment
- Built-in network interface for music streaming service integration
DISTRIBUTOR Audio Visual Technology Solutions
WEBSITE emmlabs.com; av-techsolutions. co.uk
Step back twenty or so years ago and standalone digital-to-analog converters were fast becoming an endangered species. The breed had a brief moment in the sun in the early Nineties, with almost all CD player brands fitting digital outputs, but until the advent of USB audio, the add-on digital box was very much on the wane. Now, with the rise of digital streaming, network-attached DACs are more popular than ever – the gift that keeps on giving, for hi-fi brands and buyers alike.
Streaming DACs have very quickly become digital sources in themselves, able to play music collections kept remotely on network-attached storage – and that’s before you count legacy CD and DVD playback, plus computer connectivity via USB. Just as we have a burgeoning elite breed of ‘superdeck’ turntables that have been created specifically to service the vinyl revival, so too there’s now a new deluge of ‘superDACs’ including the £9,750 Meitner MA3 that you see before you here.
This story is from the October 2021 edition of Hi-Fi Choice.
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