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. DacMagic 200M performs the digital-to-analogue conversion perfectly every time, letting all kinds of audio systems sound better than ever before.

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.

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 24bit/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.

• Dual ESS ES9028Q2M DACs – easily handles digital audio files up to 24-bit/768kHz or DSD512
• Supports MQA – be sure you’re listening to artist-approved studio-quality audio
• Digital optical, digital coaxial and USB inputs – connect CD players, games consoles, laptops or other digital audio sources
• Built in Bluetooth aptX – send digital audio files from your smartphone or tablet wirelessly
• Finished in Lunar Grey

DIGITAL TO ANALOGUE CONVERTERS: Dual ESS ES9028Q2M DACs
DIGITAL FILTER: Selectable, Fast – Slow – Short delay
FREQUENCY RESPONSE: 10Hz to 50kHz (±1dB)
THD+N @ 1KHZ 0DBFS: <0.0005% (A-Weighted)
SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO: >115dB (A-Weighted)
CROSSTALK @ 10KHZ: < -110dB
OUTPUT IMPEDANCE: <50 Ohms (unbal), <100 Ohm (bal)
MAX. OUTPUT LEVEL (UNBALANCED): 2.1V rms (fixed or variable – user selectable)
MAX. OUTPUT LEVEL (BALANCED): 4.2V rms (fixed or variable – user selectable)
DIGITAL INPUT WORD WIDTHS SUPPORTED: 16bit (Bluetooth), 16-24bit (Optical, Coaxial), 16-24bit (USB)
DIGITAL INPUT SAMPLING FREQUENCIES SUPPORTED: 44.1kHz to 96kHz PCM, DoP64 (Optical), 44.1kHz to 192kHz PCM, DoP64 (Coaxial), 44.1kHz to 768kHz PCM, Native DSD 64x to 512x, DoP 64x to 256x (USB)
MQA COMPATIBILITY: Full decoding (Core + Renderer)
BLUETOOTH: v4.2, A2DP profile, SBC and AptX codecs
ROON TESTED: Yes
HEADPHONE OUTPUT THD+N: < 0.001% at 1kHz 0dBFS @ 100mW into 32ohm
HEADPHONE OUTPUT S/N: > 115dB (A-Weighted)
MAX OUTPUT POWER: >300mW @ 32ohm, >65mW @ 150ohm
FREQUENCY RESPONSE: 10Hz – 50kHz (±1dB)
RECOMMEND HEADPHONE IMPEDANCE: 10 Ohm to 600 Ohm
MAX POWER CONSUMPTION: 12W
COLOUR: Lunar Grey
DIMENSIONS (HXWXD): 52 x 215 x 191mm; (2.0 x 8.6 x 7.6”)
WEIGHT: 1.2kg