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Page 1: ...p Balanced Output Impedance 106 ohms without volume controls 76 ohms with volume controls Volume Control optional 1 4 1 2 or 1 dB stepped attenuator Signature Diamond 78 156 or 312 steps 2 dB steps DA...
Page 2: ...ts attach the outputs of your preamp to the input on the DAC IV Shift any digital sources over to digital inputs on the DAC IV and again you will achieve optimum results Set your preamp to a volume th...
Page 3: ...DAC input when auto select is on Play will turn the iLink back on but be patient as it takes a few seconds for the iPod to reconnect Play Pause starts and stops playback Forward and Back jump to the n...
Page 4: ...ogether this makes a true 24 bit DAC This design allows the quieter moments in your music to be true to the music without the linearity errors near zero that plague normal ladder and delta sigma DAC d...
Page 5: ...ll The MSB Sign Magnitude Ladder DAC is like a Ladder DAC but refined in two ways Because the jars are typically 1 2 full when finished we start with very accurately 1 2 filled containers instead of e...
Page 6: ...nd improvement of our custom discrete DACs which form the heart of your Platinum DAC we realized that the Platinums sound quality was no longer limited by them We soon narrowed the problem to the Digi...
Page 7: ...ded 2x filter approach muddy sound MSBs digital filter uses bit perfect accumulation in an 80 bit accumulator completely eliminating these debilitating roundoff errors Only as the last step do we care...
Page 8: ...he tone will just be followed by a 5 to 15 second silence followed by music The new firmware is loaded but not running at this point you need to press any button or change any menu to activate the cha...
Page 9: ...onal input is the preferred input The balanced nature of this input allows great cable lengths as well as total noise immunity Limited to 384 kHz 24 bit data MSB Network The MSB Network uses CAT 6 cab...
Page 10: ...the display if they are bit perfect If there is a problem with the test it will play but the display will not indicate any change Be sure upsampling is turned off in any transport as this prevents a f...
Page 11: ...o operate several MSB products The top half is primary for the transport The center is for the DAC and the lower part for the iLink Power The power button turns on and off the Power Base when the opti...
Page 12: ...remote Navigate up and down the options with the front panel knob or the volume up down buttons on the remote Use the arrow buttons to navigate right and left in the menus on either the front panel or...
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Page 15: ...mpletely replaces the incoming clock Other sampling frequencies use the incoming clock from the source The DSP allocates a huge internal FIFO buffer 1 2 second at 44 1 that stores the incoming audio t...
Page 16: ...s Puts settings back to factory default setting Startup Volume This is the volume setting that is set upon power up Maximum Volume This is the maximum volume setting that can be reached Use this featu...
Page 17: ...rate they can receive Apple MAC OS On the MAC the USB is plug and play The MAC will recognize the USB DAC and its capabilities and will allow the output to be set to any sample rate desired The bad n...
Page 18: ...t on the transport No Input Bit Depth indicated on Display reads 0 bits This means an input is detected but the music is not playing Check the source to be sure it is playing No sound but Display indi...
