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Introduction
Further Features
Effective power supply filtering through lowest-noise, multiple-stage voltage suppliesRegenerates and audibly improves
the audio quality of USB PCM audio and DSD/DoP streams as well as connected devices
Serves as a flexible digital input switching matrix, audio format converter and master clock
Compatible to Apple Macintosh and Windows PCs
Transfers USB audio streams into AES3 and S/P-DIF and outputs those to five digital audio formats simultaneously
Converts between USB PCM audio, USB DSD/DoP audio, AES3 and S/P-DIF, as well as between AES11 and Word Clock
Highly compatible USB audio class 2.0 driver for Windows supporting ASIO, MME, DirectSound, WASAPI, Kernel
Streaming, PCM 16Bit, 24Bit, 32Bit and Float-32Bit at all clock rates between 44.1kHz and 192.0kHz
Ultra-low jitter Word Clock generation with clock rates up to 1.536 kHz
Scalable to FS1x512 clock rates, 22.5792 MHz & 24.576 MHz, for e.g. high-end audio interfaces
Digitally-compensated clock accuracy für highest precision of the generated clock signals
Generates Word Clocks, Super Clocks, AES3 + S/P-DIF blanks simultaneously
Uninterruptable, fail-safe clock generation in all operation modes
Eliminates so-called digital “clicks and pops”
Individual lock indicators for the clock or audio reference and the re-clock reference
USB, AES/EBU, AES/EBUid and S/P-DIF interfaces in one box
S/P-DIF interconnections via BNC, RCA and optical interfaces available as in- and outputs
Front panel lock-out for preventing of misuse
Rack-space-saving 9.5“ housing
Built-in, universal power supply
Applications
Optimizes jitter-affected digital sources like CD transports, satellite ratios, and streamers
Ideally suited as a signal conditioner to audibly improve any D/A converter
Enables computer audio via USB at highest fidelity quality
Serves as a digital audio switching matrix, format converter, and master clock
Exports and converts native DSD signals from the computer
Isolates USB audio streams to digital devices
Improves jitter-affected digital sources for archival and audio processing purposes
Peripheral MUTEC Products
Signal Distribution Amplifiers
MC-2
The MC-2 is a high-performance digital audio and reference sync signal distribution amplifier for AES3/11 and AES3/11id
signals. The unit distributes and converts between the mentioned AES signals and interface standards.
MC-7
The MC-7 is a flexible, high-performance 8-channel Word Clock distribution amplifier and audio clock converter.
Format and Sampling Rate Converters
MC-4
The MC-4 is a high-performance digital audio multichannel format and sampling rate converter for ADAT
TM
, AES3 and S/P-DIF.
MC-6
The MC-6 is a high-performance digital audio dual channel format converter for AES3, AES3id and S/P-DIF.
MC-8 + MC-8.1
The MC-8 and MC-8.1 are 8 channel, high-performance digital audio and sampling rate converters for AES3 and AES3id.