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The Audio-GD MASTER 7 OUR 2016 Edition is a high-end DAC featuring NOS Non Oversampling technology for high neutrality sound, as well as a DSP update and additional clock.
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DAC Symmetric / 8x PCM1704UK / DSP / AMANERO
Back in the flagship of the Audio-GD converters, the MASTER 7 version 2016 (NOS version) is now equipped with an update of its DSP and an additional clock dedicated to the management of the asynchronous transfers making it now able to manage record sampling rates: up to 32 bit / 384kHz.
Equipmipé of the last USB interface AMANERO Asynchrone in a version improved by Audio-GD, this converter is carved for the future.
Thee MASTER 7 received a Qobuzissime from Qobuz! See the full test bench.
The novelty concerns the mode without Oversampling "NOS". The DSP 1 includes two distinct operating modes. This new DSP makes it possible to get rid of the noise problems related to the NOS mode while keeping its advantages in terms of musical pleasure thanks to a non-destructive -6dB filter.
Mode 1 favors the speed of data transfer, the second allows processing on DSP FIFO with algorithm.
The integrated PCM1704UK converters allow you to manage sources up to 32Bit / 384kHz. The MASTER 7 has 6 inputs: BNC SPDIF, AES / EBU, Coaxial SPDIF, Toslink Optics, and I2S via USB or RJ45, as well as 3 outputs: RCA, ACSS, and XLR.
That is, the entire internal wiring is designed in OCC Copper, and a TCXO Audio-GD Clock is directly integrated, allowing the Jitter to significantly decrease.
Its architecture with built-in DPS is combined with a separate oversized power supply of 21 groups, including 19 in Class A high-flying. Its transformers develop up to 1500W of power, for only 48W of consumption. All the components are sorted on the shutter and paired by hand: very high fidelity in fact.
The MASTER 7 is therefore designed around 8 PCM1704UK and DSP1 (Altera Cyclone II) which work in parallel,removed from ultra-discrete AOP. A structure 100% black anodized aluminum finishes this sober and elegant architecture, which reveals all its power
The French definition of DSP would call it "Digital Signal Process", or "Digital Signal Processing". This mini processor is optimized to process a large amount of data in parallel with each clock cycle. It is very efficient to process the digital signals that arrive to it. The Altera Cyclone II makes the NOS 7 a very high fidelity device.
These 8 analog digital converters (DAC) use the R2R conversion which consists in directly using the bits of the digital signals to reconstruct the analog signals, all this acting on a network constituted solely by resistors having a given value (R) and its double (2R), without going through an over-sampling phase.
Specifications | |
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SNR | 109 dB (22Hz - 22kHz) |
THD | <0.0008% (20Hz - 20kHz) |
Frequency Response | 20Hz - 20kHz |
Max Output Level | 2mA (ACSS) / 2.5V (RCA) |
Output Impedance | 10 Ohm |
Input sensitivity | 0.5Vp-p (Coaxial, 75 Ohm) / 19dBm (Optical) |
Supported sampling rates | (44.1kHz, 48kHz, 88.2kHz, 96kHz) / Optical (44.1kHz, 48kHz, 88.2kHz, 96kHz) / Coaxial (44.1kHz, 48kHz, 88.2kHz, |
inputs | BNC / RCA / Optical Toslink / I2S via USB (AMANERO USB port compatible iPhone / iPad via Apple Camera Kit) |
Exits | RCA / ACSS |
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16W | |
Weight | About 5kg |
Housing material | 100% Aluminum |
Color | Black Anodized |
Dimensions | 320x240x80mm |
Accessories | Power cable / USB cable |