Musical Fidelity 's new flagship digital audio processor, the Nu-Vista DAC is a spectacular absolute reference electronics built around ESS Technology's renowned HyperStream 32-bit D/A conversion scheme.
In addition, as the name suggests, it features the British firm's renowned Nuvistor tube circuitry in the form of a fully balanced Nuvistor 7586 triode stage in each channel, integrated into a Class A buffer amplifier configured entirely with discrete components.
The DAC section of the new digital "superprocessor" from Musical Fidelity also offers optional resampling and resynchronisation, as well as the possibility of avoiding oversampling and performing digital filtering and MQA processing, all of which are entrusted to powerful 16-core processors from the US company Altera.
As far as the analogue side of the Nu-Vista DAC is concerned, the first aspect to note is the aforementioned use of Nuvistor valves, unique in the audio industry and which, in combination with an opulent power supply block featuring one of the unique "Super Silent" encapsulated toroidal transformers, empowers the Musical Fidelity to deliver a fabulously silky and dynamic sound.
Features:
- Absolute reference digital audio processor (DAC).
- Dual mono and balanced architecture.
- Very low noise analogue circuitry with 2 x 7586 Nuvistors per channel.
- 2 ESS Technology ES9038Q2M D/A converters with 32-bit technology.
- Encapsulated "Super Silent" power transformer.
- Supports PCM up to 768 kHz, DSD up to DSD512 and MQA up to 384 kHz
- Resampling and resynchronisation of incoming signals possible.
- Balanced and unbalanced analogue outputs.
- Coaxial (1), optical (3), AES/EBU (1), USB (1) and I2S (1) digital inputs.
- Roon Tested approved.
- Optional upgrade via Nu-Vista Uni PSU power supply possible.
- Available in black and silver finish.
- Jitter level less than 100 femtoseconds.
- 10-20,000 Hz frequency response (-0.5 dB cut-off points).
- Signal to noise ratio greater than 120 dB at 1 kHz.
- Channel separation less than 130 dB at 10 kHz.
- Dimensions: 483 x 188 x 510 mm (W x H x D).
- Weight: 21.5 kg.
