Musical Fidelity V-Link 192 DAC

It simply has electric output signals at the other, and a USB B plug input signal just like the others, at one end, in unbalanced form with a phono socket and balanced form via an XLR socket. There's no visual output signal with no power supply; it is USB powered. An array of indicators that are bright reveal sampling rate. This is a plugandplay unit, but it needs the ASIO driver ASIO4All that is USB to be installed, for up to 24/192. With Mac OS-X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) and forth it functions good up to 24/96 only, a limitation imposed by Core Audio in the Mac.

SOUND QUALITY

This convertor seemed to be fuller to the point of yelling the music at me, and presented a soundstage that was slightly larger compared to the others! It looked to be louder compared to the other convertors which seems not possible given the job it is doing. It certainly is a strong communicator!

I tried a little experiment, fitting the USB power supply and from which the music emerges, this gave me more of a mental picture of the differences involving the players, and seemed to generate a blacker background. Although it's GBP70 cheaper in relation to the Halide Bridge, I missed that wonderful sense of calm the Halide the way in which it separated orchestral textures convincingly. The Musical Fidelity appeared to get excited that it replicated, as well as in the process I missed the subtlety of texture that the Halide was doing well, even when both were operating on Foobar.

Musical Fidelity V-Link 192 DAC photo