{"id":130152,"date":"2021-05-03T06:42:42","date_gmt":"2021-05-03T05:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techweekmag.com\/?p=130152"},"modified":"2021-05-03T06:42:42","modified_gmt":"2021-05-03T05:42:42","slug":"m2tech-young-mkiv-dac-and-preamp-from-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/hi-fi\/m2tech-young-mkiv-dac-and-preamp-from-italy\/","title":{"rendered":"M2Tech Young MkIV: DAC and Preamp from Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>he Italian company\u00a0<b>M2Tech<\/b>\u00a0has released a new model of pre-amplifier with digital-to-analog converter in the\u00a0<b>Rockstars<\/b>\u00a0series\u00a0called <strong>M2Tech Young MkIV<\/strong>\u00a0.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"M2Tech Young MkIV\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/4f5c32e345d4c07e64ecf16a739c51e2.jpg\" alt=\"M2Tech Young MkIV\" width=\"698\" height=\"600\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The device is made in the aluminum case, traditional for the models of the series, measuring 200 x 200 x 500 mm and weighing\u00a0<b>2.5 kilograms<\/b>\u00a0.\u00a0Despite its compact size, the rear panel has a full range of connectors for switching &#8211; a USB-B port, optical and coaxial digital inputs, AES \/ EBU digital input, and even an HDMI port for I2S signals.<\/p>\n<p>The analog inputs are provided by a pair of RCA for use as a clean preamp.\u00a0Outputs include a pair of balanced XLRs and an unbalanced RCA output, and there is also a 6.35mm headphone jack on the front panel.\u00a0There is also a Bluetooth module on board.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"M2Tech Young MkIV\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/8fc906acad64f65882143f1340e0e76d.jpg\" alt=\"M2Tech Young MkIV\" width=\"698\" height=\"431\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The model receives power from an external adapter, which can be replaced with a proprietary\u00a0<b>Van Der Graaf MkII<\/b>\u00a0high-level power supply unit\u00a0.\u00a0The DAC block is built on the\u00a0<b>AK4497<\/b>\u00a0chip\u00a0from\u00a0<b>AKM<\/b>\u00a0and can work with\u00a0<b>PCM 32\/768<\/b>\u00a0,\u00a0<b>DSD512 signals<\/b>\u00a0and natively decode\u00a0<b>MQA<\/b>\u00a0.\u00a0The output voltage is\u00a0<b>10 V<\/b>\u00a0in XLR et outputs\u00a0<b>5 V<\/b>\u00a0on RCA.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<b>M2Tech Young MkIV<\/b>\u00a0preamplifier\u00a0is sold in Europe for\u00a0<b>2,000 euros<\/b>\u00a0.<\/p>\n<p><strong>More info:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.m2tech.biz\/\">M2Tech<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[ratemypost]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>he Italian company\u00a0M2Tech\u00a0has released a new model of pre-amplifier with digital-to-analog converter in the\u00a0Rockstars\u00a0series\u00a0called M2Tech Young MkIV\u00a0. The device is made in the aluminum case, traditional for the models of the series, measuring 200 x 200 x 500 mm and weighing\u00a02.5 kilograms\u00a0.\u00a0Despite its compact size, the rear panel has a full range of connectors for [&hellip;] <a class=\"g1-link g1-link-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/hi-fi\/m2tech-young-mkiv-dac-and-preamp-from-italy\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10404,"featured_media":130153,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[642],"tags":[779],"class_list":{"0":"post-130152","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hi-fi","8":"tag-news"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}