Musical Fidelity M3SCD CD Player / DAC

The M3scd is a CD Player and stand-alone DAC with sublime performance.

The M3scd has been designed to give outstanding CD reproduction and to be a digital hub.

In addition to CD it has 3 digital inputs: coax, optical and asynchronous USB. This makes it particularly useful for set top boxes and/or TV sound improvement. The technical performance is excellent; it has very low distortion, extremely low jitter, excellent signal-to-noise ratio, extremely flat frequency response, exemplary linearity and excellent channel separation.

All in all the M3scd gives excellent CD replay and can act as a versatile digital hub at the same time.

Reviews

Read the full Hi-Fi Choice 5-star review.

M3scd In Brief

• CD player and digital hub

• Excellent technical performance

• Very good CD readability

• Multiple digital inputs – coax, optical and asynchronous USB

• Very low jitter

• Excellent build quality and convenient size

Performance

• Jitter: <135 picoseconds peak to peak
• Frequency Response: 10Hz to 20 kHz -0.2dB max.
• Signal to Noise Ratio: >117dB
• THD(+ noise): <0.003% 10Hz to 20 kHz
• Linearity: <0.1dB down to -96dB
• Channel Separation: 105dB 20 Hz to 20 kHz

Hardware

• DAC:24 bit Delta-Sigma (bit stream) dual differential 8x over-sampling

Outputs

• 1x line level RCA
• 1x RCA coaxial connector (Digital SPDIF)
• 1x Toslink optical connector (Digital SPDIF)
• 1x Trigger output – 3.5mm (1/8”) mono jack +12V DC

Inputs

• 1x RCA coaxial connector SPDIF 32-192 kbps

• (16-24 bit stereo PCM)

• 1x TOSLINK optical connector 32-96 kbps

• (16-24 bit stereo PCM)

• 1x USB type ‘B’ connector –

• Asynchronous data stream at up to 24-bit/96kHz

• Trigger in

General

• Dimensions – WxHxD (mm): 440 x 100 x 380
• Weight (unpacked / packed): 6.05 kg / 9.9 kg