Merging TechnologiesMERGING+NADACusedMerging Technologies MERGING+NADACTHIS UNIT HAS BEEN PRICED TO SELL, AND IS GENERATING A LOT OF INTEREST, THUS ALL LOWER OFFERS WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED. THIS UNIT IS CAN BE CONFIGURED FOR EITHER TWO-CHANNEL OR MULTICHANNEL! We are A...6199.00

Merging Technologies MERGING+NADAC

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Ships fromSan Francisco, CA, 94109
Ships toUnited States
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Shipping carrierFedEx
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Original accessoriesRemote Control, Box, Manual
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THIS UNIT HAS BEEN PRICED TO SELL, AND IS GENERATING A LOT OF INTEREST, THUS ALL LOWER OFFERS WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED.

THIS UNIT IS CAN BE CONFIGURED FOR EITHER TWO-CHANNEL OR MULTICHANNEL!

We are AudioVision San Francisco, a high-end audio and home theater retailer in the heart of downtown SF for 20 years come next year. As one of the largest hifi shops worldwide, with just about more experience than any brick-and-mortar shop in existence, we are certainly what you would call "the real deal."

Thus, we are dead serious on what we are selling, you will get what you pay for, as described, with dealer support behind it. All of our items are priced to sell, and with that price we include free shipping. Feel free to call us anytime at 415.614.1118 to discuss, or email us at [email protected]. Once again, serious inquiries only please!

Also, check out our other specials listings on our website! http://audiovisionsf.com/?page=specials

This listing is for a great used MERGING+NADAC reference-level DAC! It's in exceptional condition with no flaws, and was recently sent in to Merging Technologies to be fully updated!

From Merging Technologies:

"MERGING+NADAC was born out of the repeated request from Merging’s mastering and recording engineer customers to provide a DAC for the audiophile market. This would be for their own customers, the music lovers, the high-resolution lovers, the purity lovers, a DAC able to reproduce the same experience, the same transparency they, as engineers, enjoyed in their studio when working on their Masters.

The universally acclaimed sound quality, transparency and precision of the Horus and Hapi professional converters was something these engineers were dying to offer to the people who were purchasing their music, their chef d’oeuvre.

We carefully listened and designed MERGING+NADAC based on the Horus and Hapi architecture and principle, but with a lot of improvements expected by the audiophile market, like channel summing, dedicated headphone DA, unique ergonomics and of course a superb aluminum chassis.

Not only did we deliver state of the art music listening in an audiophile environment, but also introduced some radical design enhancements to MERGING+NADAC, like tablet and smartphone remote control as well as some of the recipes which made Horus and Hapi such a great success and revolutionary in their own market. Most notably, the network audio communication through RAVENNA. You will find below some details about the benefits of this technology.

So, be prepared, this may not be a DAC for everyone and those just looking for flashy electronics or exaggerated sound artifacts should look elsewhere.

MERGING+NADAC is about transparency and purity!

You will get the music AS IT’S BEEN RECORDED AND MASTERED, period. Exactly as in the studio, exactly as it was intended by the engineers and producers, exactly, no less, but even more important, no more!

NETWORK ATTACHED DIGITAL TO ANALOG CONVERTER
Nice acronym, but what is it all about? The modern world has become dependent on networks and the technology has been designed to be reliable and scalable. As the network capacities have increased, the possibility of using IP networks for video and audio became an obvious choice. Clearly Gigabit Ethernet had sufficient capacity for high quality audio but it was not optimal without an additional protocol adding the required precision and management. Merging needed to move away from the PCIe technology that had served us well for many years and we looked at alternatives that could offer sufficient accuracy and reliability with high channel counts and Hi-Res Audio data rates. Other IT based point-to point connections such as USB or Firewire were either not optimum or obsolete for audio even though other manufacturers had pressed them into service. There was only one choice that made sense: RAVENNA.
RAVENNA
This open and published IP network technology had been created to meet the demands of national broadcasters and focused on essential requirements of extremely accurate clocking, high resistance to packet loss and very low latency. Initially it did not encompass high PCM sampling rates and certainly not DSD. However, it was not difficult to make changes to allow that, so Merging worked closely with the developers to make sure that sufficient channels at up to DSD256 could be handled with an accuracy that exceeded anything previously available. It remains the only logical choice for the professional and the audiophile and is now available in MERGING+NADAC. The added bonus to using an advanced networking solution is being able to send and receive control information as well as audio data. This opened up exciting possibilities in the studio and now you can enjoy these same benefits in your own home.
COMPATIBILITY
The RAVENNA protocol comes with absolutely standard drivers for any computer operating system. ASIO for Windows, CoreAudio with DoP support for MacOS. As easily installed and configured as any other driver for USB or Firewire, the MERGING+NADAC RAVENNA driver allows use of any application of your choice to playback your music files, Emotion, JRiver, Audirvana, iTunes, etc... as well as any music server or streamer able to communicate through those standard ASIO or CoreAudio drivers.
PEER TO PEER CONNECTION TO A COMPUTER OR SERVER
Just plug a cat5e or cat6 cable between the MERGING+NADAC and any computer, music server or streamer and send audio to the MERGING+NADAC from your favorite application through the standard ASIO or CoreAudio driver. As soon as the playback application is running on the computer it will appear in the MERGING+NADAC source selection menu, exactly like any internal digital input. Select it... et voilà!
SUPERB SPECIFICATIONS
OUTPUTS
BALANCED ANALOG OUTPUT Connector: gold-plated male XLR Impedance: 40 Ohms Max output level: 18 dBu (6.1 Vrms) Multichannel dynamic range: 124 dB(A) Multichannel THD+N @1kHz: -113 dB (0.00022 %) Stereo dynamic range: 130 dB(A) Stereo THD+N @1kHz: -116 dB (0.00016 %)
UNBALANCED ANALOG OUTPUT Connector: gold-plated RCA jacks Impedance: 20 Ohms Max output level: 8.2 dBu (2 Vrms) Multichannel dynamic range: 120 dB(A) Multichannel THD+N @1kHz: -113 dB (0.00022 %) Stereo dynamic range: 123 dB(A) Stereo THD+N @1kHz: -114 dB (0.0002 %)
HEADPHONE Connector: 3.5mm jack + 6mm jack Impedance: 40 Ohms Max output level: 14.4 dBu (4.0 Vrms) Dynamic range: 123 dB(A) THD+N @1kHz: -111 dB (0.00028 %)
INPUTS
AES INPUT Connector: gold-plated female XLR Input impedance: 110 Ohms Sample rate: 44.1 kHz – 192 kHz
S/PDIF OPTICAL INPUT Connector: Toslink Sample rate: 44.1 kHz – 96 kHz
S/PDIF COAXIAL INPUT Connector: gold-plated RCA jack Input impedance: 75 Ohms Sample rate: 44.1 kHz – 96 kHz
NETWORK INPUT Connector: Neutrik EtherCon RJ45 Bitrate: 1 Gb/s (Gigabit Ethernet only) Sample rate: 44.1 kHz – 384 kHz, DSD64, DSD128 and DSD256
WORDCLOCK INPUT Connector: BNC Input impedance: 75 Ohms Termination: 75 Ohms, software selectable Sample rate: 44.1 kHz – 192 kHz
MISC Enclosure material: Premium machined and anodized aluminium Dimension: 435 W x 435 D x 95 H mm Weight: 11 kg AC voltage: 100V-240V/47-63Hz (IEC socket) Power consumption: < 30W Front panel display: OLED, 160x128 pixels, 16 bit colors"

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