MPD-8 DREAM DAC This product has been designed for ultra high end performance. Its architecture is specifically designed to eliminate and isolate anything that might hurt its analog performance. For instance, left and right output channels are built on separate circuit boards with completely separated power supplies. All digital input signals are filtered, cleaned and processed with Playback Designs’ proprietary algorithms to keep any negative influences away from the hyper sensitive DAC. Special care has been given to the design of the clock generator to make sure it is not exposed to any potentially harmful influences from external sources. The MPD-8 is the companion DAC product for the MPT-8 transport which is designed to further isolate the MPD-8 DAC from the influences of digital sources by connecting to the DAC via a proprietary fiber optical link with galvanic separation (PLINK). As we all know too well, digital sources bring various degrees of “pollution” in form of correlated clock jitter, asynchronous clocks (disk drives, CPU, displays etc) and many other negative effects. When these sources are connected directly to the DAC, there is always the chance for some of this “pollution” reaching the analog circuitry of the DAC. However, with the MPT-8 receiving and processing all digital sources and then sending a cleaned up digital stream to the MPD-8 via a completely galvanically isolated link, our proprietary fiber optical cable (PLINK), the MPD-8 is left alone performing what it is designed for: converting digital signals to super high end analog. Connection of all digital sources to back of MPT-8
PLINK optical link
MPT-8 / MPD-8 combination for best performance and separation between digital and analog circuits