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Cambridge Audio DacMagic 200M
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Digital audio is brilliant, but it needs to be analogue audio before you can hear it. And the way it ends up sounding depends entirely on how you convert the digital audio files stored on your computer, on CD or from your favourite streaming service. Cambridge Audio's flagship DAC, the DacMagic 200M, performs the digital-to-analogue conversion perfectly every time, letting all kinds of audio systems sound better than ever before.
• Dual ESS ES9028Q2M DACs easily handle digital audio files up to 32bit/768kHz or DSD512
• Supports MQA so you can be sure you're listening to artist-approved studio-quality audio
• Incredibly low jitter and high signal-noise ratio
• Front of unit displays sample rate of incoming audio
• Switchable filters to give you different sonic options
• Diverse range of inputs connect CD players, games consoles, laptops or other digital audio sources
• Built-in Bluetooth aptX allows you to send digital audio files from your smartphone or tablet wirelessly
• Connect four digital audio sources simultaneously
• USB Input with ground lift switch
• Toslink optical and S/PDIF coaxial inputs
• Balanced XLR and unbalanced RCA outputs for connecting to an integrated amplifier or preamp
• Includes a high-quality headphone amplifier with 1/4" (6.3mm) headphone output
User Manual (PDF, 1.3MB)
"The DacMagic 200M is a pocket rocket of a performer, able to be used as a DAC, a headphone amp, or even as a preamp for a whole digital system."
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EISA DAC 2021-2022"Cambridge Audio has been making DACs since 1994, and it all shows in the latest addition to its DacMagic line, the 200M. It lives up to the precedent of its illustrious forebears with an attractive combination of solid build, ease of use and performance, plus wide-ranging file-format compatibility, all the way up to 768kHz/24-bit and DSD512 (at least via its USB input). Easy to use, it’s not only an excellent ‘desktop audio’ device that’ll drive headphones to good effect, but it will also serve up a storm in a main audio system with its crisp, rewarding and expressively-detailed sound."
"Cambridge Audio’s latest top-of-the-line DacMagic continues the legacy of the long-standing DacMagic model, the original of which earned Cambridge its first What Hi-Fi? Award in 1996. The 200M is 25 years and several evolutionary steps along the DacMagic line in terms of features and performance, but it hasn’t lost sight of its vision to sit among the very best at its level. The DacMagic 200M is a talented all-rounder"
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"Cambridge Audio’s new DacMagic 200 is a textbook example of how to do an affordable modern digital-to-analogue converter. Sonically it’s refined and expansive, with plenty of detail and an enjoyably musical nature. Technically it’s highly accomplished with fine functionality and decent connectivity. Overall then, it’s been carefully designed for the widest possible appeal at its price point. If you’re looking for a cheap way into a serious sounding digital-based system, then it’s an essential audition. Its ancestors would be proud."
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At the heart of the DacMagic 200M is a pair of extremely high-quality ESS Sabre digital- to-analogue converters. They handle digital audio files up to 32bit/768kHz or DSD512, so they can deal with digital music of any kind stored on CDs, smartphones, computers - or anywhere else, for that matter.
Once a digital file is onboard DacMagic 200M, its twin DACs convert it to analogue information with all of its dynamics and detail intact. And, because the analogue signal it sends to your audio set-up is so astonishingly free of distortion, so precise and so lifelike, your system will sound more convincing and complete than it ever has before.
Despite the incredible number of features, the extensive functionality and the extraordinary technology on board the DacMagic 200M, Cambridge Audio has managed to fit it all into a beautifully built, flawlessly finished steel and aluminium box measuring just 52 x 215 x 191mm.
This means it will fit neatly and discreetly into any existing audio set-up without taking up loads of room or drawing too much attention to itself. All that’s required is a balanced or unbalanced connection to your system (and some mains power, of course) for DacMagic 200M to deliver you a sonic upgrade that’s way bigger than the box it comes from.
It’s possible to get digital audio files into DacMagic 200M in any number of ways. Digital optical, digital coaxial and USB inputs mean CD players, games consoles, laptops or any other digital equipment can be easily hooked up - and Bluetooth aptX reception means it’s just as straightforward to wirelessly deliver files from your smartphone or tablet too.
DacMagic 200M has both balanced and unbalanced analogue outputs, so can be easily connected to audio systems of all types, as well as switchable filters to give you different sonic options. Alongside its ability to deliver stunning sound to your speakers, it has a high-quality headphone amplifier with 6.3mm output on board too, so you can enjoy DacMagic 200M’s thrilling sound quality in private – at whatever volume you like.
DacMagic 200M is Cambridge Audio’s first product to support MQA.
MQA is an award-winning British technology that delivers studio-quality sound in a file small enough to stream. TIDAL, for instance, uses MQA technology to deliver master-quality sound in their Hi-Fi membership. Cambridge Audio’s DacMagic 200M can fully decode and playback MQA files, so they sound exactly like the original studio recording.
On the product, look out for the blue MQA indicator. This indicates you are playing an MQA Studio file, which has either been approved in the studio by the artist or producer, or has been verified by the copyright owner. The green indicator is confirmation you are playing and decoding an MQA music file.
Cambridge Audio wants you to hear your music at its very best, as the artist intended it to be heard, with nothing added, nothing taken away. That’s what we’ve always wanted because that’s what music lovers like us deserve. It’s why we’re constantly experimenting, solving problems and creating new kit. It’s why we’ve been doing what we do for the last 50 years. It’s why we’re always trying to make the listening experience better. Pure.
All Cambridge Audio's research and development take place at their London HQ: where their team of 20 audio engineers create and experiment. The team comprises industrial designers, electrical engineers, coders, QA testers and more who have decades of experience and, together, have created some of the most successful British audio products in the last half-century.
| Model Number | DacMagic 200 |
|---|---|
| RRP | 1,099.00 |
| Specs | DIGITAL TO ANALOGUE CONVERTERS DIGITAL FILTER FREQUENCY RESPONSE THD+N @ 1KHZ 0DBFS SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO CROSSTALK @ 10KHZ OUTPUT IMPEDANCE MAX. OUTPUT LEVEL (UNBALANCED) MAX. OUTPUT LEVEL (BALANCED) DIGITAL INPUT WORD WIDTHS SUPPORTED DIGITAL INPUT SAMPLING FREQUENCIES SUPPORTED MQA COMPATIBILITY BLUETOOTH ROON TESTED HEADPHONE OUTPUT THD+N HEADPHONE OUTPUT S/N MAX OUTPUT POWER FREQUENCY RESPONSE RECOMMEND HEADPHONE IMPEDANCE MAX POWER CONSUMPTION COLOUR DIMENSIONS (HXWXD) WEIGHT |
