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Cambridge Audio DACMagic review

£200 is all it takes to transform your old digital sources into cutting edge wonder machines

Our Score 5

Last reviewed: 2008-10-07October 7th 2008

Price at launch £200.00
Additional Information Available in silver or black
Description Digital to Analogue Converter
Dimensions 215 x 52 x 191
Features Adaptive Time Filtering (ATF™) asynchronous upsampling technology converts 16-24 bit audio (at any standard sampling frequency between 32-96kHz) to 24 bit/192kHz / 32 bit Texas Instruments Digital Signal Processor (DSP) / Dual Differential Virtual Earth balanced filter topology – low order two pole linear-phased Bessel filter takes advantage of high sampling rate achieved / Twin WM8740 high quality DACs / Incoming sampling rate indicator 32/44.1/48/88.2/96kHz / Choice of filters – linear phase, minimum phase and steep filter / Two inputs with both SPDIF & Toslink sockets / USB input connects direct to PC / Singled ended phono and XLR balanced audio outputs
Weight (kg) 1.2

Product Summary

DACMagic digital-to-analogue converter

Cambridge DACMagic

Price at launch

£200.00

For

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User-selectable filters allow a degree of tuning to taste

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Basic sound is excellent

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Clear and highly detailed

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Remarkably neutral

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Energetically rhythmic

Against

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No volume control

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Lacks audiophile credibility that comes with acres of 10mm-thick front panel

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