Musical Fidelity’s M3x high-end DAC has been launched in the UK by distributor Henley Audio.
The new product takes inspiration from Musical Fidelity’s M6x DAC, offering similar performance at a lower price.
M3x employs an up-sampling DAC design with the SRC4392 – a high-end sample rate converter from Burr Brown – tasked to re-clock all PCM signals and convert them into 24-bits and 192 kHz.
The M3x's PCM1795 DAC handles PCM rates of up to 24 bits and 192kHz and native and DoP DSD of up to DSD256. The new machine plays DSD files in their original format. The single-ended RCA and balanced XLR outputs each have their own output buffer, and both output stages deliver superior audio quality, large output voltage swing and high current drive, exhibiting very low noise. Musical Fidelity says the system's excellent gain bandwidth and fast slew rate produce exceptionally low distortion.

The M3x DAC confirms Musical Fidelity's continued development of its Super Silent Power Transformers – industrial-grade power sockets with an EMI filter and DC blocker stop interferences and eliminate transformer hum.
Musical Fidelity has milled the M3x DAC's front panel from an extruded aluminium profile and combined it with a heavy steel case to protects the internals from outer electromagnetic fields. The design also guards other hi-fi gear against electromagnetic fields generated by the M3x DAC.
