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MPD-8

Digital to Analog Converter

USER MANUAL

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Page 3: ...t without appropriate approval may invalidate the user s right to operate the equipment WARRANTY Playback Designs warrants the MPD 8 product against defects in material and workmanship under normal use and service for a period of time specified by the product s serial number from the date of first delivery to the owner The warranty time period is for 30 days If within the first 30 days of ownershi...

Page 4: ... automatically registered BEFORE USING THE PRODUCT What is in the box MPD 8 playback system Remote control unit with mounted batteries USB cable Power cord 110V versions only User manual Registration If you purchased this product from a dealer please take a moment and send us an email to info playbackdesigns com so we can register you for the warranty Installation The AC voltage supplied to the un...

Page 5: ...l link to other Playback Designs equipment This connection supports multiple audio formats natively for PCM and DSD USB AUDIO Direct USB connection to computers and servers for PCM at sample rates up to 384kHz and DSD up to 11 2MHz Analog outputs XLR Balanced pin 2 hot 4 1Vrms 1kHz full level since wave and output level set to 0db fixed RCA Unbalanced 4 1Vrms 1kHz full level sine wave and output l...

Page 6: ...MPD 8 User Manual 6 FRONT PANEL FUNCTIONS Buttons Mute toggle on off Sequential selection of activated inputs Standby power on off Alphanumeric status display Volume level display ...

Page 7: ...g normal operation these up and down arrows directly below the DAC button toggle through the active inputs of the MPD 8 During settings display these buttons toggle through the settings menu Inverts the phase on both analog outputs Dims display on front panel Mutes all analog outputs Analog output volume control Need to enable variable output level see settings menu No function on MPD 8 ...

Page 8: ...digital inputs the IR remote provides buttons with up and down arrows right below the DAC button Also the front panel provides the same buttons With these buttons you can select any of the six digital inputs on the MPD 8 by toggling up and down through the list You can drastically shorten the list of selectable digital inputs by deactivating those that you don t use see setup menu for further deta...

Page 9: ...by the manufacturer that cause such dropouts and others are user installed with additional software that do not allow flawless real time playback of audio Fortunately there is a free utility software that allows you to test your PC for real time capability 1 Go to http www resplendence com latencymon and download the utility program LatencyMon There is also a good description of the program and so...

Page 10: ...vert all your songs to this rate before playing them out through USB This will result in degraded performance You can manually select the sample rate in the Audio MIDI Setup utility to correspond with the native sample rate of the song but this can be a tedious process if your library contains songs with more than 1 sample rate Alternatively 3 rd party plug ins for iTunes exist that automate this ...

Page 11: ...able 4 OUT LVL the analog output level can be set as variable therefore enabling volume control via remote control or fixed in the following values 6db 3db 0db 3db 6db 0db yields about 4 1Vrms with a 1kHz full level sine wave 5 PLINK OUT if you want to connect your MPD 8 to a classic Playback Designs DAC such as MPS 5 you need to select the Classic format All other products use the Sonoma format 6...

Page 12: ...ge will start smoothing out and clarity will increase but highs might continue to remain recessed At this point there probably will not be much change in the bass You will probably wonder how the Playback Designs converter will ever sound like others have described but we assure you that you will start to hear substantial changes within another week of play 4 350 500 Hours The magic will be starti...

Page 13: ...icture 3 Pull fuse compartment out and flip sideways as shown below 4 Replace both fuses with 1 6A 250V slow blow types Length is 20mm CLEANING THE CHASSIS OF THE MPD 8 It is possible that the chassis can stain slightly from finger prints or you may discover subtle stains on the surface that can be caused by the packaging material during shipping You can easily clean the chassis with either window...

Page 14: ... that Audirvana works perfectly on Mac computers On the Windows platform we have verified Foobar and Roon but JRiver won t play this file 4 Play the file 5 The front panel will indicate WRITING FLASH It is important that at this point you no longer touch the system nor your PC nor the remote don t change the input don t turn the power off Go have a glass of Playback Designs wine because it will ta...

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