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Originally Posted by Maks
Bumparoo on this thread. I've been contemplating some changes (again). Any owners of the MDA200 care to chime in? I still have a Mc D100, but moved over to a W4S 10th Anniversary DAC-2 which is my current DAC and has been for quite some time. Great DAC, zero complaints but I kind of want to go back to a full Mc stack. This would also allow me to eventually get something like a used MCT450 to use the MDA200 with SACDs. Side note, if anyone is selling an MCT450 or 500, hit me up.
Anyhow, that's all more detail than necessary, anyone have some feedback on this DAC? This would be purely used as a DAC fed into my C2300.
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I ran across a review on You Tube that was extremely positive from a dealer who sounded quite knowledgeable. As far as sound quality, I owned an original MCD7000. I had an excellent system and it sounded open, sweet, detailed and musical. This was 40 years ago and the DAC had
one channel. Years ago my Mac friend informed me that Mac had solved the jitter problem and that jitter would never be an issue with Mac DACs. The technologies for Mac switching and volume control don't change. What I'm saying is that if you were a new company or a young company creating similar technology de novo, the price of the MDA200 would be 18K, not 4K.
Would the MDA200/MCT 500/C-22 combo be of reference quality comparable to a MCD12000/C-12000 combo? IMO, no, but close especially if in a less than reference system, and I think competitive with much more expensive gear where the manufacturers redesign virtually everything from the ground up, when there is an upgrade. Finally, I want to say that there are well established manufacturers (Dag, dCS, and ARC would be three) that have followed a similar approach to Mac.
Best
Charles