{"id":145703,"date":"2022-06-08T11:00:07","date_gmt":"2022-06-08T10:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techweekmag.com\/?p=145703"},"modified":"2022-06-08T11:00:07","modified_gmt":"2022-06-08T10:00:07","slug":"merason-frerot-compact-dac-from-switzerland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/hi-fi\/merason-frerot-compact-dac-from-switzerland\/","title":{"rendered":"Merason Fr\u00e9rot: Compact DAC from Switzerland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Swiss company\u00a0Merason\u00a0has released an inexpensive, by the standards of their products,\u00a0Fr\u00e9rot\u00a0digital-to-analog converter .<\/p>\n<p>The device is completely manufactured in the company&#8217;s own workshop near Bern.\u00a0It is built on a\u00a0Burr Brown 1794A chip\u00a0, all digital inputs in the models are galvanically isolated.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/61_techweek.jpg\" alt=\"Image\" width=\"870\" height=\"580\" \/><\/p>\n<p>To connect sources, there are two coaxial digital inputs, an optical input and a USB port, which is responsible for jitter reduction by\u00a0Amanero\u00a0&#8216;s proprietary solution .<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/62_techweek.jpg\" alt=\"Image\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The maximum resolution of a PCM signal that\u00a0Merason Fr\u00e9rot\u00a0can handle is\u00a024bit\/192kHz\u00a0.\u00a0Device dimensions &#8211;\u00a0225 x 180 x 50 mm\u00a0, DAC weighs less than 995 grams.<\/p>\n<p>The Merason Fr\u00e9rot digital\u00a0-to-analogue converter\u00a0is sold on the European market for\u00a01250 euros.<\/p>\n<p>[ratemypost]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Swiss company\u00a0Merason\u00a0has released an inexpensive, by the standards of their products,\u00a0Fr\u00e9rot\u00a0digital-to-analog converter . The device is completely manufactured in the company&#8217;s own workshop near Bern.\u00a0It is built on a\u00a0Burr Brown 1794A chip\u00a0, all digital inputs in the models are galvanically isolated. To connect sources, there are two coaxial digital inputs, an optical input and [&hellip;] <a class=\"g1-link g1-link-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/hi-fi\/merason-frerot-compact-dac-from-switzerland\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10404,"featured_media":145704,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[642],"tags":[779],"class_list":{"0":"post-145703","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hi-fi","8":"tag-news"},"acf":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145703","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=145703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}