American Playback Designs MPS-8 MPS8 SACD player brand new licensed warranty
Playback Designs in the United States has always been a supporter of SACD, and the principal Andreas Koch is one of the promoters of DSD specifications that year. They have long been leading the technology in the DSD field. In 2017, Playback Designs announced "Dream Player" at the Munich Audio Show. There are three "Dream Models" under the name of MPS-8, and the most watched of them is the MPS-8 SACD player.
In fact, although MPS-8 looks like a traditional SACD turntable, it also integrates Music Streamer digital streaming playback, so it has more functions and more powerful than traditional SACD. In terms of digital decoding core, MPS-8 supports up to 11.2MHz in the DSD part, and PCM up to 384kHz, which is already the highest standard in the industry. In addition, MPS-8 also has front and volume control functions. In order to achieve the highest sound quality, Playback Designs uses analog volume control, but behind it is a digital drive core. The internal digital decoding adopts a fully differential sub-block DAC, the analog amplification circuit is independent amplification of the left and right channels, each channel is a fully differential balanced circuit, and the power supply is also independent of the left and right channels, and every detail is done. At the most exquisite level, this is what lives up to the reputation of "Dream Player".
As for the more and more popular digital cloud listening, such as Tidal, Qobuz, Deezer, etc., MPS-8 can be added to the Stream-X card to support these digital cloud listening, provided by MPS-8 The most top-notch DAC decoding. Stream-X can also support NAS and has Roon-Ready function, which seems to be an indispensable and important option for MPS-8.
Playback Designss MPS-8 SACD
Type: SACD/CD turntable(DAC)
Digital input: USB (PCM 384kHz, DSD 11.2MHz), AES (PCM 192kHz, DSD via DoP), Coax (PCM 192kHz, DSD via DoP), TosLink (PCM 96kHz), PLINK optical (PCM 384kHz, DSD 11.2MHz)
Output gain: fixed gain -6dB (2.1V), -3dB (3V), 0dB (4.2V), +3dB(6V), +6dB(8.4V);
Variable gain: 13.5V maximum
Analog output: RCA, XLR
Output impedance: less than 1 ohm
Dimensions: 46 x 13 x 43 cm
Weight: 18.2 kg catty