A product that you don’t have to make any compromises or excuses just because it is affordable. Physically it looks superbly gorgeous and built like a tank. Feel the weight of this DAC and it tells you what you are paying for are inside. Whichever way you look at it, it gives outstanding value and pride of ownership to the owner and the sound system being used. The North Star Design latest model - the M192 DAC is the BEST VALUE digital-to-analogue converter you can buy at the moment. It uses the Crystal CS4396-CS 192kHz – 24bit DAC. It has an upsampler module and takes it right up to 192kHz. Just take a look inside it and you’ll know the quality of components it comes with: | Including two large transformers. | | Separate power supply for digital and analogue section with three levels of voltage regulation. | | The analogue section is based on a circuit with only discrete components, low negative feedback and direct coupled with the DAC. | | An oscillator circuit lowers the jitter in the input data, which re-clock the input data. |
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The M192 is future proof. A two-channel converter, its circuit is designed to allow future insertion of a multi channel conversion system (DVD Audio). The input signals from digital sources like CD, DAT and DVD Video 96kHz – 24bit are directly converted or upsampled to 192kHz. The North Star Design Model 192 DAC accommodates two RCA, one XLR (Balanced), one TOSLINK and one I2S digital inputs. There are two analogue RCA outputs. | 
