The Majestic makes music sound natural - not digital.
Digitally reproduced music from your stereo streamer or CD player shouldn't sound any different to that of natural sounding analogue, but so often it does.
The Majestic overcomes the "digital sound" so all you'll hear is the music.
The Majestic is more than a DAC - it's a preamp too.
Accepting inputs from hi-fi stereo streamers, CD players and computer hi-fi on its 3 x optical; 3 x coax; and USB input, the Majestic hi-fi pre DAC also has an analogue input. This hi-fi DAC with preamp works just like any preamp, so you don't need another.
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Driven by a true stereo balanced DAC chipset, it has both fixed-level and variable level outputs: single-ended on fixed; and balanced (which can be used single-ended) on variable.
The fixed output will feed a headphone amplifier or you can record from it, and the variable output will drive a power amplifier - or even active monitors direct.
Partner it with a pair of Proprius monoblocks and you have a complete amplifier system.
What really sets the Majestic apart from similar pre-DACs is the lack of harshness in its sound.
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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!