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DAC - digital preamp - balanced outputs - multiple inputs - coax, optical, analogue, USB
No More Digital Fatigue!
Graham Slee has put every bit of his famous analogue audio technology into this DAC to make your music sound natural - not digital. That is what real high fidelity is all about.

Honestly, It Does What We Say
And when we say it sounds wonderful we really mean it — we won't let you down there. We're committed to making music come alive in your home and the Majestic pre DAC will never stand in the way of your music. It might however give you a clue as to what the rest of your system should be, because, when teamed with Graham Slee Proprius amps you'll discover what music is really about.

Majestic DAC preamp rear panel
Hand made by true craftsmen in our Yorkshire workshops, the beautifully compact Majestic pre-DAC is perfectly engineered to sit unobtrusively in your home and deliver great music on demand.

Connectivity:
The Majestic has inputs for three optical (TOSLink) sources (up to 96kHz 24 bit) and three coaxial S/PDIF sources (up to 192kHz 24 bit) for use with digital music servers and streamers as well as TVs, set-top boxes, games consoles and CD transports having TOSLink or coaxial S/PDIF outputs.

The Majestic USB input is suitable for CD-quality FLAC and WAV files, MP3 and YouTube audio from a PC, Laptop, Android tablet or phone via an OTG adapter, and iPhone via a lightning (camera) adapter (up to 48kHz 24 bit).

It also has a stereo input for analogue audio such as the output from any of our phono preamp stages.

The Majestic pre-DAC has a fixed analogue unbalanced line-out suitable for connection to a preamp, integrated amp, or any of our analogue headphone amplifiers. And to special order, this output can be placed after the volume control making it variable.

It has stereo balanced main outputs which can feed any power amplifier balanced or not. Using compact TRS jack plugs, cables can be made up to suit your amplifier with a choice of lengths. See our CuSat50, Lautus and Libran cable ranges and choose TRS for the source end connector.

Graham Slee chose adaptive isochronous for USB because it is time-sensitive, and importantly, music is time-sensitive. Asynchronous simply isn't time-sensitive and data retries introduce glitches and even stop-start playback which ruins your musical interest. 48kHz, the original professional digital audio tape (DAT) sampling rate, might be classed as "old-hat" but higher resolutions suffer processing noise you won't see declared in specifications. Resampled or upsampled 96kHz is only empty bit stuffing so there's nothing added to the music apart from digital artefacts that may make it sound different. It might look good on paper, but you hear with your ears, not your eyes!

Majestic DAC
Free From Harshness
What really sets the Majestic apart from similar pre-DACs is the lack of harshness in its sound.

It's what makes it sound so naturally musical: Its digital chipset is run 2dB below full-scale to prevent the harsh sound of "clipping", and its analogue filters work differently to other DACs.

Its analogue filters sound more natural in five ways:

1. their inherently fast slew rate captures every part of the musical waveform
2. their inverting* topology does away with common-mode distortion
3. the filters operate balanced to complement the DAC chip balanced output, cancelling noise
4. they use our ultra-linear technique which gives true 180-degree local negative feedback at the most sensitive hearing frequencies
5. the filters won't "saturate" and distort on the loudest passages

This means you don't get harmonic artefacts - alien noises - embedded in your music.

Those noises are the very thing that makes digital music sound so digital and unatural. And is why you should compare how a DAC sounds with real music...

Direct comparisons between the Majestic and others reveals that something is missing - with the Majestic you don't get the harsh sounding artefacts!

* absolute phase is maintained by phase inverting in the balanced filters

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Width:
174; Height: 57; Depth: 188 (mm)
Weight:
2.6 kg packed - with PSU1, DC and power cords
Specifications subject to alteration without notice in keeping with our continuous improvement policy.