The new M1 DAC from Musical Fidelity has been very well reviewed, and it has sold briskly from the shop and website.

Ever eager to see how they made such a good design, thought it would be interesting to delve deeper into it's inner workings of the Musical Fidelity M1 DAC :-)

Musical Fidelity M1 DAC main PCB

A clean and tidy construction, with minimal internal interconnecting cables, good for low noise and long term relaiability.

Musical Fidelity M1 dac side view of internals

 

Here is a close-up of the power supply regulators and resevoir capacitors.

Musical Fidelity M1 DAC power supply circuitry

DAC circuitry with low jitter, precision clock circuitry nearby.

DAC circuitry and precision clock

The Burr Brown 24 bit 192kHz D-to A convertor chip in detail.