Hand made by true craftsmen in our Yorkshire workshops, the beautifully compact Majestic pre DAC is perfectly engineered to sit unobtrusively in your home and deliver great music on demand.
Connectivity:
The Majestic has inputs for three optical (TOSLink) sources (up to 96kHz 24 bit) and three coaxial S/PDIF sources (up to 192kHz 24 bit) for use with digital music servers and streamers as well as TVs, set-top boxes, games consoles and CD transports having TOSLink or coaxial S/PDIF outputs.
The Majestic USB input is suitable for CD quality FLAC and WAV files, MP3 and YouTube audio from a PC, Laptop, Android tablet or phone via an OTG adapter, and iPhone via a lightning (camera) adapter (up to 48kHz 24 bit).
It also has a stereo input for analogue audio such as the output from any of our phono preamp stages.
The Majestic pre DAC has a fixed analogue unbalanced line-out suitable for connection to a preamp, integrated amp, or any of our analogue headphone amplifiers. And to special order this output can be placed after the volume control making it variable.
It has stereo balanced main outputs which can feed any power amplifier balanced or not. Using compact TRS jack plugs, cables can be made up to suit your amplifier with a choice of lengths. See our CuSat50, Lautus and Libran cable ranges and choose TRS for the source end connector.
Free From Harshness
What really sets the Majestic apart from similar pre-DACs is the lack of harshness in its sound.
It’s what makes it sound so naturally musical: Its digital chipset is run 2dB below full-scale to prevent the harsh sound of “clipping”; and its analogue filters work differently to other DACs.
Its analogue filters sound more natural in five ways:
1. Their inherently fast slew-rate captures every part of the musical waveform
2. Their inverting* topology does away with common-mode distortion
3. The filters operate balanced to complement the DAC chip balanced output, cancelling noise
4. They use our ultra-linear technique which gives true 180 degree local negative feedback at the most sensitive hearing frequencies
5. The filters won’t “saturate” and distort on the loudest passages
This means you don’t get harmonic artifacts – alien noises – embedded in your music.
Those noises are the very thing that makes digital music sound so-digital and unnatural. And is why you should compare how a DAC sounds with real music…
Direct comparisons between the Majestic and others reveals that something is missing – with the Majestic you don’t get the harsh sounding artifacts!
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Rated Output
- Balanced, variable via level control: +8dBu/1.95V rms (into 22k Ohms); +2dBu/975mV rms (into 600 Ohms)
- Single Ended fixed low-level:-8dBu/309mV rms (into 22k Ohms)
- (Single Ended variable via level control:+2dBu/975mV rms (into 22k Ohms), *optional to order*)
Sensitivity for rated output
- Digital:-14 dBFS
- Analogue: -8dBu/309mV rms
- 0dBu= 774.6 mV rms
The following measurements taken at 24 bits and sampling rates of
- Coax inputs: 192kHz
- Optical inputs: 96kHz (192 kHz to order – optical input 1)
- USB input: 48kHz
Frequency Response (-3dB points)
- Coax input:11Hz – 36kHz
- Optical input:11Hz – 31kHz
- USB input:11Hz – 20kHz
Distortion (THD @ 1 kHz)
- Coax inputs:0.002%
- Optical inputs:0.003%
- USB input:0.0025%
Distortion (THD @ 10 kHz)
- Coax inputs:0.002%
- Optical inputs:0.003%
- USB input:0.0025%
Intermodulation Distortion (SMPTE)
- Coax inputs: 0.006%
- Optical inputs: 0.014%
- USB input: 0.008%
Dynamic Range (AES17)
- Coax inputs: 98dB
- Optical inputs:100dB
- USB input:96dB
Signal to Noise Ratio (A wtd.)
- Coax inputs: <102dB
- Optical inputs:103dB
- USB input:96dB
Jitter
- Wideband: 100Hz corner (AES 117): 140 ps
Dimensions
- Width: 174; Height: 57; Depth: 188 (mm)
- Weight: 2.6 kg packed – with PSU1, DC and power cords
Specifications subject to alteration without notice in keeping with our continuous improvement policy.
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