{"title":"MSB","description":"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eMSB Technology is a high-end DAC and amplifier manufacturer based in California. They're powered by a team of passionate, dedicated engineers and audio specialists who strives to deliver superior audio performance. They combine user-centric design with lifelike audio reproduction to create an excellent user experience. Their secret to design lies in the strong integration between electrical, mechanical, and consumer needs. This process creates the most beneficial, technologically-advanced products. MSB Technology finds joy in innovating cutting-edge that elevates the listening experience. They've been in the game for 25 years, and they've been using their expertise to create future-forward products that challenge industry standards.\u003c\/span\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"msb-discrete-dac","title":"MSB Discrete DAC","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe MSB Discrete DAC is a true masterpiece of high-end digital audio engineering, designed to deliver an unparalleled listening experience. With its dual prime DACs, this DAC yields an unprecedented level of detail, reproducing the musicality, soundstage, and texture of an original performance, bringing the artist to you. The fully balanced, ultra-high precision, discrete ladder DAC architecture ensures that every note tells a story, while MSB's low impedance circuitry drives your amplification directly, without adding coloration or buffering noise.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCrafted with meticulous attention to detail, MSB's robust in-house design ensures the finest quality playback of PCM and native DSD, resulting in a digital experience that defies expectations. Equipped with a high-visibility LED display with a wide viewing angle, this DAC is both easy-to-read and stunning, exhibiting MSB's love for intuitive features. The display is slaved to the audio clock and is refreshed between data processing to drastically reduce electrical interference, while the in-house discrete design is constructed into its own shielded CNC pocket for optimal isolation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMSB is constantly innovating to meet consumer demands, improving digital input modules to stay at the forefront of the high-end audio industry. The focus on the network renderer and USB input ensures that your audio tech is always on the cutting edge, making the MSB Discrete DAC a future-ready investment. Whether you're listening to your favorite music or watching a movie, the MSB Discrete DAC will transport you to a world of high-fidelity sound that is as breathtaking as it is effortless.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MSB","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":29397951840309,"sku":"Discrete DAC","price":18125.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2246\/9355\/files\/MSBDiscreteDAC.jpg?v=1698519812"},{"product_id":"msb-premier-dac","title":"MSB Premier DAC, Includes PowerBase \u0026 Femto 93 Clock","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWith four prime DACs, we yield an unmatched level of detail, reproducing the musicality, soundstage, and texture of an original performance, bringing the artist to you. A fully balanced, ultra-high precision, discrete ladder DAC architecture ensures each note tells a story. Additionally, MSB's robust in-house design enables the finest quality playback of PCM and native DSD, while our low impedance circuitry drives your amplification directly without adding coloration or buffering noise. The end result is a digital experience defying expectations.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEquipped with high-visibility and a wide viewing angle, the display is both easy-to-read and stunning, exhibiting our love for intuitive features.  The LED display, slaved to the audio clock, is refreshed between data processing to drastically reduce electrical interference. The in-house discrete design is then constructed into its own shielded CNC pocket for optimal isolation. Sit back and be immersed.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMSB thrives off the innovation required to meet consumer demands. We're constantly improving digital input modules to stay at the forefront of the high-end audio industry, ensuring you're always equipped with the most current digital file formats and interfaces. Focusing on our network renderer and USB input, your audio tech will be on the cutting edge. Put simply, your DAC is ready for the future.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MSB","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":29398070427701,"sku":"Premier DAC","price":39875.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2246\/9355\/files\/MSBPremierDAC.jpg?v=1698519829"},{"product_id":"msb-reference-dac","title":"MSB Reference DAC, Inlcudes PowerBase, Femto 33 Clock, Preamp Output Module","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWith four Hybrid DACs, we yield an unmatched level of detail, reproducing the musicality, soundstage, and texture of an original performance, bringing the artist to you. A fully balanced, ultra-high precision, discrete ladder DAC architecture ensures each note tells a story. Additionally, MSB's robust in-house design enables the finest quality playback of PCM and native DSD, while our low impedance circuitry drives your amplification directly without adding coloration or buffering noise. The end result is a digital experience defying expectations.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSmooth chassis lines. Few controls. Focused modularity. High-end quality. As we set out to create a new level of digital-to-analog conversion, our design statement ensured the best usability and quality. The resulting product has set a new, previously undiscovered reference in the listening experience.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEquipped with high-visibility and a wide viewing angle, the display is both easy-to-read and stunning, exhibiting our love for intuitive features.  The LED display, slaved to the audio clock, is refreshed between data processing to drastically reduce electrical interference. The in-house discrete design is then constructed into its own shielded CNC pocket for optimal isolation. Sit back and be immersed.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eYou can't underestimate the importance of a clean power supply. A re-imagined design paired with the DAC reduces the noise floor even further. We've equipped the DAC with a single supply for the digital side of the DAC, along with an isolated supply for the analog side, yielding an unprecedented level of performance.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MSB","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":29398078619701,"sku":"Reference DAC","price":79025.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2246\/9355\/files\/MSBReferenceDAC.jpg?v=1698519838"},{"product_id":"msb-cascade-dac-includes-cascade-director-and-cascade-power-base","title":"MSB Cascade DAC, Includes Cascade Director and Cascade Power Base","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Cascade DAC was born of an unwavering dedication to perfecting our craft, enabled by our enthusiasm for in-house design and vertically integrated manufacturing. This starts a new era—one built on twin foundations of innovation and experience. We began by reimagining the fundamentals of known DAC architectures from the ground up. Critical to the success of the Cascade DAC has been dividing the conversion process into three dedicated chassis and functions. First, all of the processing, sources, and interfaces that are necessary, but electrically noisy, have been concentrated in the Cascade Digital Director. Next, all of the critical low noise analog electronics have been housed in the Cascade Analog Converter. Finally, all of the analog power supplies have been moved to the dedicated Cascade Powerbase. This ideal component division enables sublime analog playback in nearly any system and listening environment. 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This allows you to easily place the Digital Director anywhere in your system with the reassurance that the analog processes are free of digital interference.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch1\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRecovering the recording\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn order to push our audio technology even further, the Digital Director uses two high performance DSPs, each capable of sustaining 12 billion operations per second that work in tandem with two dedicated FPGAs. This is more than 4x the power of our previous generation of DACs. But that’s not all: advanced new digital filters, born from decades of research and development and tailored specifically for the Cascade DACs hardware, ensure that the Cascade DAC offers a superior, authentic reconstruction of the original analog signal. This increased processing headroom allows for a more expansive soundstage with even more beautiful textures from complex performances such as massed horns, vocals, close mic’d pianos, large ensembles, and full orchestras, regardless of the format. What emerges is the most natural and emotional presentation we’ve ever created.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch1\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Cascade-Link\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWith modern digital technologies, such as servers, WiFi networks and LED lighting, it’s nearly impossible to create analog signals that are not only accurate, but also unpolluted and low noise. MSB developed many unique technologies in-house to make precision analog performances possible in any music playback setting. One of those vital and unique technologies is the Cascade-Link. Based on modern diode laser fiber optics, the Cascade-Link is a noise free, high bandwidth data river specifically designed to feed the insatiable hunger of the Hybrid DAC MKII’s in the Analog Converter without conducting any upstream electrical noise. It carries the raw, uncompressed data directly to the converter modules. This allows the Cascade DAC to produce an unmatched level of analog purity regardless of the environment it finds itself in. This is an industry-first technology that we believe will change the way digital and analog systems are designed hereafter.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch1\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePart 2: The Analog Converter\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIf the Digital Director is the brain behind the Cascade System, the Analog Converter is the beating heart. With 8 New Hybrid DAC MKII modules, a Femto 33 MKIII Clock, passive analog stages, and 75 ohm volume controls, the Analog Converter makes the music come alive. Freed from the burden of any brute force digital processing, the Analog Converter is supremely adapted for the task of meticulous analog conversion. Digital music flows over the noise free Cascade-Link directly to the hybrid DACs, while stunning analog performances are received by the integrated analog inputs. All formats are carefully converted to MSBs unique fully balanced, constant impedance analog format. This enables an optimal connection directly to your power amplifier.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch1\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Hybrid DAC MKII\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA new generation of Hybrid DACs allow the Digital Director to extract the maximum resolution from all of your music files and from all data formats. As a fully balanced, ultra-high precision, discrete ladder DAC architecture, it reproduces all of the musicality, soundstage, and texture of the original performance. 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Selection of each volume step is done by precious metal contact, latching relays whose coils are switched to ground when not active to avoid any signal corruption. Volume attenuation is done with distributed components so that no one precision part has too much power dissipation, thereby preserving the maximum linearity of the signal. The signal path is fully balanced and differential to prevent any ground currents from polluting the delicate signals. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch1\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePart 3: The Powerbase\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe analog performance is only as good as the power supplies that support it, that’s why we have completely overhauled our powerbase technologies for the Cascade system. 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