Product Description
The Bricasti M3 offers an incredible array of performance in a more affordable price class. Highlights include two fully differential conversion channels, separate conversion for PCM and native DSD, and a balanced analog level control circuit, making the M3 suitable for all applications.
The M3 utilises two independent linear power supplies for the analog and digital processing to ensure low noise and superior isolation. A newly designed chassis made from robust CNC milled aluminium in sections insures superior thermal characteristics, excellent vibrational damping and shielding from RF.
The M3’s digital design employs precision DDS clocking that lowers jitter to extremely low levels, insuring a pure digital signal path without the use sample of rate converters, this combined with superior digital filter design, and Native DSD conversion yields a state of the art digital audio path. The M3’s high speed low distortion analog path features a bypass-able preamp class analog level control allowing the Bricasti M3 to be used to drive power amps directly, with no bit loss for optimal analog performance.
All of our products are crafted in the old world tradition, in a classic brick mill building in Massachusetts USA by a team of individuals dedicated to excellence.
The M3 has the option of an in-built network streamer (M5 equivalent) at $1,995, remote at $950, and/or a headphone amplifier section at $950. Please contact us for a bespoke order.
Digital Inputs | XLR: AES/EBU 24 bit Single Wire, RCA: SPDIF, Optical: Toslink 44.1- 96k, USB 2, RJ45: Ethernet (Optional) |
Sample Rates AES, SPDIF | 44.1 kHz, to, 192khz, DSD 64fs as DoP |
Sample Rates USB | 44.1 kHz, to, 384kHz, DSD 64fs 128Fs as DoP |
Sample Rates Ethernet | 44.1 kHz, to, 384kHz, DSD 64fs,128Fs as DoP |
Jitter | 8 psec @ 48k / 6psec @ 96k |
Balanced Analog Outputs | XLR balanced (pin 2 hot) |
D/A Conversion | PCM 24 bit delta sigma 8x oversampling, NDSD pure 1 bit conversion for DSD |
Impedance | 40 ohm |
Output Level | @ 0 db front panel +14.3 dbm 4 db RMS ( bypass mode) |
Frequency Response @44.1k | 10 hz- 20 kHz +0dB, -.2 dB |
Dynamic Range | >120dB A-Weighted |
THD+N @ 1k | .0008% @ 0dbfs / .0004% @-30dbfs |
Unbalanced Analog Outputs |
RCA | |
D/A Conversion | PCM 24 bit delta sigma 8x oversampling, NDSD pure 1 bit conversion for DSD |
Impedance | 40 ohm |
Output level | @ 0 db front panel = +4db 2V rms |
Frequency Response @ 44.1k | 10 hz- 20 kHz -.2 dB |
Dimensions | 356 x 286 x 64mm |
Weight 4.5kg |