I hope to own the MSB primer headphone setup one day. Keep up the great work, and please have more dealers in Sydney, impossible to find them for demo.
@@DanielGullmanFrancis one the biggest factors in matching a preamp to a power amp is the impedance. It would be great if MBS let users select the desired output impedance like CH Precision.
@@klaymoon1 We designed our amplifiers to have selectable impedance instead of the DAC. In this case, the impedance is driven by the DAC modules directly so we didn't interfere with purity of the signal.
Will I be able to choose a sound profile like analytical/neutral/musical? Not all listeners have the same favorite characteristic in music reproduction.
Hello. The Cascade will not have this option, but you have several avenues to pursue this. First, I will say why not all three? The Cascade doesn't have to sacrifice one of those for the others. You can also get a music player that will process the files before playback to show your specific characteristics. And then, probably most common, is speaker preference. Speakers often decide the "feel" of a system. We have Magicos and Estelon speakers in our listening room and these two show very different performances.
We do have a network renderer, but will never create a server. The lifespan of servers is quite short lived. We are a small company that wants to focus on long lasting digital. This way, people can choose the software experience they like best with their favored server.
Of course! There are only three of us doing this engineering work, so it will take some time ;) For now, the manufacturing improvements are fighting inflation and increased cost of materials.
People make DAC's because they can't fix loudspeaker problems. Problems with loudspeakers are the most difficult to fix which is why companies like this make products that pretend to solve lots of problems when the problems in loudspeakers still exist no matter how expensive their DACs are !!
@@DanielGullmanFrancis How does your expensive DAC and amps fix loudspeaker problems ?? From what I can see, all you are doing is selling expensive ice to an eskimo.
@@Jay-eo3wl And that comment makes no sense either because a speaker converts electrical energy into acoustical energy which is what you hear. Find me one speaker that does its conversion better or more transparently than even the cheapest of DACs ?? I bet you can't ;)
@@Jay-eo3wl And of course the more expensive DAC with the more expensive CNC milled out case always happens to be the best :D LOL Like I said show me one speaker that is more transparent than the cheapest of DACs available ? To help you along a bit it should have a flat frequency response within +/-0.02dB from 20Hz to 20kHz. Ultra low distortion of at least 0.001%. Flat or linear phase response from 20Hz to 20KHz. Huge dynamic range of at least 120dB ;) Any contenders ??
@@Jay-eo3wl You can't address the real issue can you. I'll make it easy for you. Get your yourself a cheap transistor radio with its 2 inch speaker and power that speaker with this dudes megabuck dac and megaback amplifer and what do you hear ?? Now get yourself a cheap Topping DAC and a cheap amplifier of reasonable quality and then connect that up to a speaker of the same value as this dudes dac and amplifier. Which sounds better ?? And this is the reason why you should always throw most of your money at the weakest link in the chain which is still the loudspeaker by a long shot otherwise you are just fiddling around the edges ;)
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Amazing to hear the background of all the industrial design and manufacturing considerations and the strong drive for optimization and efficiency.
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed. I am pretty excited with how far our manufacturing abilities have come.
i love my MSB DAC, the best.
Until you hear the Totaldac
I hope to own the MSB primer headphone setup one day. Keep up the great work, and please have more dealers in Sydney, impossible to find them for demo.
Noted and thanks for the feedback! Cheers.
I wish I had money to buy this.
I love the new design! Does it have user selectable output impedance?
The output impedance is driven by the number of Hybrid DACs. With 8, this matches the select DAC with 75 ohm.
@@DanielGullmanFrancis one the biggest factors in matching a preamp to a power amp is the impedance. It would be great if MBS let users select the desired output impedance like CH Precision.
@@klaymoon1 We designed our amplifiers to have selectable impedance instead of the DAC. In this case, the impedance is driven by the DAC modules directly so we didn't interfere with purity of the signal.
Will I be able to choose a sound profile like analytical/neutral/musical? Not all listeners have the same favorite characteristic in music reproduction.
Hello. The Cascade will not have this option, but you have several avenues to pursue this. First, I will say why not all three? The Cascade doesn't have to sacrifice one of those for the others. You can also get a music player that will process the files before playback to show your specific characteristics. And then, probably most common, is speaker preference. Speakers often decide the "feel" of a system. We have Magicos and Estelon speakers in our listening room and these two show very different performances.
Why not MSB build in a streamer into the DAC?
We do have a network renderer, but will never create a server.
The lifespan of servers is quite short lived. We are a small company that wants to focus on long lasting digital. This way, people can choose the software experience they like best with their favored server.
The streamer module is in the "Director".
Hope all these cost savings will be passed on as a more affordable product.
Of course! There are only three of us doing this engineering work, so it will take some time ;) For now, the manufacturing improvements are fighting inflation and increased cost of materials.
The european dude sounds like Rose’s cousin Sven from The Golden Girls… WOOWW… 🤣😂🤣
People make DAC's because they can't fix loudspeaker problems. Problems with loudspeakers are the most difficult to fix which is why companies like this make products that pretend to solve lots of problems when the problems in loudspeakers still exist no matter how expensive their DACs are !!
Sorry to hear that has been your experience, I hope one day you get to hear good digital, amplification, and speakers.
@@DanielGullmanFrancis How does your expensive DAC and amps fix loudspeaker problems ?? From what I can see, all you are doing is selling expensive ice to an eskimo.
@@Jay-eo3wl And that comment makes no sense either because a speaker converts electrical energy into acoustical energy which is what you hear. Find me one speaker that does its conversion better or more transparently than even the cheapest of DACs ?? I bet you can't ;)
@@Jay-eo3wl And of course the more expensive DAC with the more expensive CNC milled out case always happens to be the best :D LOL Like I said show me one speaker that is more transparent than the cheapest of DACs available ? To help you along a bit it should have a flat frequency response within +/-0.02dB from 20Hz to 20kHz. Ultra low distortion of at least 0.001%. Flat or linear phase response from 20Hz to 20KHz. Huge dynamic range of at least 120dB ;) Any contenders ??
@@Jay-eo3wl You can't address the real issue can you. I'll make it easy for you. Get your yourself a cheap transistor radio with its 2 inch speaker and power that speaker with this dudes megabuck dac and megaback amplifer and what do you hear ?? Now get yourself a cheap Topping DAC and a cheap amplifier of reasonable quality and then connect that up to a speaker of the same value as this dudes dac and amplifier. Which sounds better ?? And this is the reason why you should always throw most of your money at the weakest link in the chain which is still the loudspeaker by a long shot otherwise you are just fiddling around the edges ;)