Mytek Dac now in the uk

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Mytek stereo DSD 192 Dac black pre amp

1500 euros list
have on uk demo or free home trial for 999 Gbp

features and sound not seen at this price level before
DSD direct stream digital , USB , Firewire PCM 32Bit/192khz
built in pre amp & headphone amp

http://mytekdigital.com/hifi

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Va7ov6Boq0k&playnext=1&list=PLAcrHEEK62yG62pnbxAbgpIvo-wmOzSP6&feature=results_video

http://www.positive-feedback.com/Issue60/dsd.htm

http://www.gearslutz.com/board/mastering-forum/756920-mytek-stereo-192-dsd-dac.html

http://www.channelclassics.com/aboutdsd

http://www.head-fi.org/t/622248/review-mytek-stereo-192-dsd-dac-preamp-amplifier

David Chesky of audiophile label Chesky Records have recorded this test session before acquiring two Mytek 8X192ADDA's for the label recording rack

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2012 positive feedback winner


The Mytek Digital Stereo 192-DSD DAC… a mighty mite! [Image courtesy of Mytek Digital]

Here's some great news: A DAC that not only does PCM up to 192 kHz/24-bit, but also handles DSD (64fs) and Double DSD (128fs) via USB 2.0 very nicely! The Mytek Stereo 192-DSD DAC provides a nice array of I/O options, including USB 2.0 and 1.1, Firewire, S/PDIF, AES/EBU, BNC, and analog inputs. On the output side, both XLR and RCA are provided. Up front, there is even a ¼" headphone jack with volume control for those who prefer to keep it to themselves. (For more specifications, visit Mytek's site.)

The Mytek comes out of 20 years of experience in digital design, with a very significant element of professional digital work. The results in this case and at this price point (an outstanding MSRP of $1595) are quite impressive. With its ESS Sabre32 chipset, the Mytek provides a robust and dynamic sound. Its PCM performance is certainly quite clean and clear at every resolution that I tried it with, subject to the usual caveats about the limitations that I find in PCM sound.

DSD and Double DSD .DFF and .DSF files via USB 2.0 were something else: this is the mountaintop, and what I concentrated on. Here, the Mytek shone. Pairing it up with JRiver's excellent Media Center 18 (ASIO drivers and DSD mode) and Chris Sommovigo's Black Cat Morpheus RCA interconnects on the output, and running that to the Bel Canto 3.5 VB Mk. II cables, the results were splendid… truly amazing at this price point. This is how things should sound when you're listening to the finest format that I know: clean, clear, dynamic, never razor-edged, always musical. If anything, the Mytek may have the slightest touch of warmth, which I found quite alluring. Having spent hours listening to the Mytek with both DSD and Double DSD files from my HP Pavilion DV8 notebook (Intel i7 processor w/8 GB RAM and Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit) in ASIO mode via JRiver's Media Center 18, I can say that the results were lovely, with nary a moment of audio digititis. What an accomplishment!

Positive feedback 2012 brutus award winner

DSD and Double DSD, 192 kHz/24-bit PCM stereo, and in a compact professional package. All in all, a bloody great price-performance from Mytek. Anyone on a budget who is looking for very fine DSD and Double DSD playback, and superior results with PCM, will find the Mytek Stereo 192-DSD a top-notch choice.

A 2012 PFO Brutus Award winner, for sure!

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2012 award

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5.1 DSD surround

First multi-channel DSD playback solution with Mytek and J RIver!
How about sitting in your listening position, browsing jremote, and pulling up a pure native 5.1 DSD rip of Beck-Sea Change, for playback in native DSD. And no, I don't have a Sonoma workstation sitting here! YES!!

Well, I mentioned in a few threads that I was getting ready to prototype a possible 5.1 pure DSD playback setup. The thought of using J River and jremote (ipad) to browse a multichannel catalog that includes native DSD 5.1 (and 3.0, etc) is a 2013 goal of mine. 2012 was a watershed for DSD-capable stereo DACS (I own 3, Metiner, Mytek, exasound).

Well..yesterday marks the first huge step in that goal!

Mytek delivered my third Mytek Stereo 192 DSD DAC yesterday Own one, demoing the seond for their newer hardware boards), along with a simple 4-port USB hub. My goal for this weekend coming up was to simply get something working, and I assumed it would be a lot of trial and error..even though Michal and Chebon (Mytek) had given me pretty good instructions going in.

Matt at J River had just released a beta version of JRMC that fixed a couple idiosyncrasies in 5.0 vs 5.1 playback, so i downloaded 18.0131, made sure Mytek's 133.1 Windows ASIO driver was loaded on my CAPS V2+ and hooked up the USB hub. I used some decent (and awful generic) USB cables to cobble together a three-port setup, and used the SOtM card to drive it (directly powered by the iFi). I thought the hub would need power but it didn't. The USBPAL driver screen indicates what goes where (hint: the oldest serial number gets main lf/rf, the next gets c/sw and the newest DAC gets ls/rs). I guessed right the first time! Go figure.

I use a tried-and-true analog multichannel preamp (Sony TAP-9000ES) for volume and analog channel trimming (so far done via ear only; I will drag out the Rat Shack digital SPL meter tonight). I created a MCh DSF parent folder, moved a few 5.1 DSF albums into it and had J Remote add the parent in auto-import. Voila. (My next step is to create a multichannel view and use it in jremote; the view rule will be simple..."channels greater than 2"). One of the DSF folders is the Pentatone sampler that includes test tones and channel id tracks.

First up, after confirming channels and doing simple trims, was Beck-Sea Change, a tremendous surround sound album. The clarity, tone, dynamics and deep bass of this thing, heard 1000 times before, was startling. The Mytek trio blew away (yes blew away) the Oppo 83SE in this first test. And channel trims weren't even done yet. Wow!

Stay tuned for more updates.

Here's what the setup looks like (stacked Myteks next to my CAPS V2+. The other thing is simply a gigabit ethernet switch, so my 2 channel setup would still have ethernet).




Updates:
Myteks are all stock. They were set for bypass volume. J River was setup for ASIO and bitstream "DSD" (not "DoP"). Rebooted initially as one of the DACS wasn't seeing the CAPS, and J River was having issues. Reboot took care of everything. I do not have Fidelizer running currently. Win 8 is un-tweaked currently (I've used Fidelizer to do that so far, short of a good list of changes). ISO's were extracted using "extract DST DSF multichannel.bat" and I appended each DSF multichannel album name with "(DSD MCH)" to initially differentiate from its DSD stereo counterpart.. As i said earlier, I will simply make a mch view that jremote will also use.

Oh, the DSF 5.1 folders are freaking huge. My 1000 ripped SACDs in DSF stereo are like 2.5TB; for mch we're gonna need a bigger boat!

PCM rocks too. I played a Donald Fagen -Kamakiriad (DVD-A 24/96 5.1) mch FLAC rip and all was wonderful. I may use my ripped Breakthrough (into a New Dimension, DVD-A) PCM channel specific pink noise tracks to tweak PCM trims vs DSD trims, but Kamakiriad sounded balanced.

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http://www.positive-feedback.com/Issue66/mytek.htm

My first impressions were that the Mytek offered absolutely amazing bass performance. Better than any DAC I have heard in recent memory, even ones costing significantly more. I also noticed a very high degree of resolution. As a matter, of fact, I can honestly say I have never heard this much recorded detail in my system. I can see how mastering engineers would want to get their hands on this DAC. There is no place for a bad recording to hide.

[Gazjam]

It's a cracking Dac, its the "go to" bit of kit if you want to go down the DSD route.
Heard one in my own system and it sounds great, very versatile too...a "swiss army knife" Dac..does everything!

[MCRU]

Nice to hear you like the dac gaz

[Gazjam]

Yup, its a cracker.

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5.1 DSD from Mytek - multi channel Downloads from classic

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpQkz4ehEHE

http://www.channelclassics.com/native-dsd-multichannel.html