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2019 CES Asia ---SMSL will bring new product there

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The M400 will be released next month, and the M200 will be released this month.
This is the design of M400, made by the Ak4499.
That is pretty! I had a M500 but that had issues with bad SPDIF connections. My OLED TV's SPDIF made the sound drop out every so often on the M500, will this have a different receiver or options to adjust jitter reduction?
 

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The M400 will be released next month, and the M200 will be released this month.
This is the design of M400, made by the Ak4499.
Considering it is AKM, I hope there is a good pop-noise circuit for when sample rate or input changes. Other manufacturers often have some problems with this!
 
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That is pretty! I had a M500 but that had issues with bad SPDIF connections. My OLED TV's SPDIF made the sound drop out every so often on the M500, will this have a different receiver or options to adjust jitter reduction?
You can try to change another cable
 

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Some data of M400 in the laboratory, and very stable, can be used with MQA.

Those THD+N graph and SINAD numbers look very impressive.

distortion looks very nice~ will it output 5V balanced then? or is that just for testing

I think its the max output values there. In any case, the homogenized testing voltage for balanced out is 4V, so SINAD numbers should be a little bit lower at that value.
 

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Nice! I'm curious about the price of the m200 and if it will fit the size of the sp200.
 

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Neat! But I can't spot the headphone input in m400. I was 100% sure the previous designs had it....
Doesn't look like it has one. Pre-amp/digital volume and DAC, comparable to Topping D90(MQA).
 

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Doesn't look like it has one. Pre-amp/digital volume and DAC, comparable to Topping D90(MQA).
See:
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I think they redesigned the features, to include MQA decoding (at a cost).
 

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Yes, I think marketing made some juggling there probably reasonable from their point of view. Sad for me but otherwise it would be a direct competitor and most likely better device than m500.

So no Ak4499 combo so far...
 

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Maybe it was inferior chip and head-amp before. AK4499 and no head-amp now. And MQA to compete with D90.
 
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There is something wrong with headphone outputs regarding this photo. AFAIK, M400 does not have any amplifier, nor does it have a Bluetooth input. Can you enlighten us @SMSL-Mandy ?

Sp400 will be resealed in June. Suit with the M400. And M400 is a pure DAC.
 
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