N31 CD-DAC
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A versatile hub for all your digital music. This high-performance unit extracts incredible detail from both your CD collection and high-resolution digital files, ensuring a rich, musical, and engaging listening experience.
The MBL N31 CD-DAC is an exquisite digital audio component from MBL’s prestigious Noble Line, embodying the German manufacturer’s relentless pursuit of sonic perfection. This integrated unit combines a high-performance CD player with a state-of-the-art DAC, offering discerning audiophiles unparalleled playback quality from both physical discs and external digital sources.
At its core, the N31 features an ingeniously dampened slot-loading CD transport and MBL’s advanced D/A conversion technology, which masterfully blends Multi-Bit and 1-Bit principles for seamless linearity. Proprietary innovations like True Peak Technology prevent clipping, while a 3-stage jitter reduction system ensures impeccable timing. Users can tailor the sound via three selectable digital filters.
The N31 provides extensive digital inputs, including dual USB ports optimized for high-resolution playback from various devices, alongside AES/EBU, coaxial, and optical. Its robust, precision-machined aluminum chassis and high-resolution color TFT display reflect MBL’s signature blend of functional elegance and luxurious design. Delivering breathtaking transparency, expansive dynamics, and a profoundly natural musicality, the MBL N31 CD-DAC sets a new benchmark for digital audio reproduction.
Features
Newly developed, high-performance CD player with state-of-the-art DA converter:
– Offers a variety of inputs and outputs to ensure total flexibility and universality
– CD offers convenient front-panel slot loading
– CD text recognition and display of the title information in the display
– CD slot drive has been optimized to account for air turbulence and mechanical vibration
– Intersample Overload Protection to prevent from quality-degrading overloads during
conversion
– Automatic shutdown of oscillators when not required for the currently selected input
– 3-stage jitter reduction
– Psycho-acoustically optimized digital and analog filters
– Group delay-optimized analog output filters
– 3 different digital filters can be selected (minimum phase / smooth transition, slow rolloff / linear phase)
– 4-path DA converter with soft transition between delta-sigma and multi-bit processing
– Fully-balanced signal path from the DA converter to XLR output
– iPhone / iPad as sources, the N31 bypasses their internal DA converter, using instead the
high quality DA converter of the N31. Playback is then bit-true and jitter-free with up to
24 bit and 192 kHz or DSD64 processing
– Galvanic isolation of all digital inputs and outputs
– Optically-isolated USB inputs with its own power supply
– Resolution and sample rates up to 24 bit / 192 kHz and DSD64
– 5’’ color TFT display, 6 smart keys
– MBL SmartLink version 2.0, employed to network MBL devices with the exchange of
status information
– Intelligent remote control concept for easy operation
– SD-card slot for easy firmware and display content update
– “Made in Germany” development and production made in MBL’s own factory in Berlin
Specifications
– 5 digital inputs (Toslink, AES/EBU (XLR), S/P-DIF, USB audio class 1, USB audio class 2)
– 3 digital outputs (Toslink, AES/EBU (XLR), S/P-DIF)
– 2 analog outputs (1 x unbalanced (RCA), 1 x balanced (XLR))
– 2 MBL SmartLink connectors (RJ45)Device:
– Width: 45,0 cm / 17.7 in
– Depth (w/o cables): 41,5 cm / 16.3 in
– Height: 15,0 cm / 5.9 in
Packaging:
– Width: 58,0 cm / 22.8 in
– Depth: 52,0 cm / 20.5 in
– Height: 33,0 cm / 13.0 in
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