Mytek Digital Manhattan DAC (v.1.3) - Manual (Page 4)

Mytek Manhattan Digital to Analog Converter – User's Manual
1. Introduction
Thank you for choosing the new Mytek Manhattan DAC Headphone Preamplifier, the best
sounding Mytek DAC to date. Pristine sonics and beatiful contemporary industrial design
allows the Manhattan to easily challenge $10,000+ products from other brands. The
Manhattan has been designed as a digital and analog playback preamplifier and audio
hub. It features a high fidelity, high current headphone amplifier with single ended and
balanced outputs designed to drive most demanding high end headphones, analog
remotely controllable volume control, a choice of analog inputs for external sources such
as vinyl and options for internal phono preamplier and SACD DSD optical digital input.
The DAC is capable of converting high resolution PCM audio up to 384 kHz, and DSD
audio (up to 256xDSD on USB2 and FW) , through high-speed USB 2.0, FireWire,
AES/EBU, SPDIF, or TOSLINK. Driverless “plug and play” is provided via USB 1.1 port (for
PCM audio up to 96 kHz).
2. Package Contents
• Manhattan DAC
• USB 2.0 Cable
• FireWire Cable
• Apple remote
• Spiked Feet
• Rubber Feet
• Power cord
3. Brief Description
• Dynamic Range: 130dB (32 bit ESS Sabre chipset in 8 mono to 2 double balanced
stereo config.)
• Native 32bit PCM up to 384k, DXD, DXD32, DSD, DSD128, DSD256 (11.2 MHz)
• Digital inputs: AES/EBU, S/PDIF, Toslink, SDIF DSD
• Word Clock: IN/OUT for ext clock, and to stack up more units for surround playback
• Analog inputs: XLR , RCA 1 , RCA 2
• Analog outputs: XLR , RCA
• FireWire400/800, USB 2.0, USB 1.1 computer interface
• Femto Clock Technology - jitter below 1ps (1/1000 000 000 000 of a sec)
• Internal Hardware Upsampling to DSD256: Any digital signal can be upsampled to
DSD256 for superior DAC chipset performance
• Internal PCM Hardware Upsampling: 16bit 44.1k etc. can be optionally upsampled
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