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Mystique Z User Manual

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Digital-to-analog reimagined

The refinements we made to the Mystique Z for 2027 are more than just aesthetic.

In addition to our new black anodized chassis we’ve upgraded the power supplies, output stage, anti-resonance, and shielding. The result is an even higher level of transparency, harmonic coherency, and emotional expression.

Our Quantum version includes all of the evolutionary technologies used in our Mystique Z 2027, all of our best upgrade options, and a few added refinements:

• Two Bybee Gold Slipstream Purifiers to polish the analog outputs.
• Three Bybee AC Purifiers to cleanup AC noise without restriction.
• Anti-resonance chassis upgrades plus ERS paper shielding.
• Lundahl nano crystal core choke upgrade included.
• ISO Acoustics GAIA Neo footer upgrade included.

The Quantum upgrades provide an even lower noise floor, darker background, greater transparency, and more holographic imaging. Your music will be fleshed out creating a more palpable sense of realism beyond descriptive adjectives.

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A unique fusion of vintage and modern technologies:

• Artisanally crafted and hand-built in USA.
• Engineered around Burr-Brown’s legendary PCM58P R-2R ladder DAC chips.
• Ultra-purist typology unadulterated by oversampling, upsampling, digital domain filtering, noise shaping, or error-correcting algorithms.
• Converts up to 24-bit 192KHz PCM through USB, coaxial, and optical inputs.
• Galvanically isolated asynchronous USB with ultralow-noise femto clocking.
• Actively buffered and regenerated AES coaxial and TOSLINK optical inputs.
• A unique USB defeat switch eliminates 100% of the clocking noise inside the chassis to optimize performance of the coaxial and optical inputs.
• Discrete direct-coupled class A output stage with no capacitors or transformers to limit the bandwidth or color the sound.
• Low-noise hardware-based demultiplexing ensures perfect phase and time without the longevity issues associated with FPGAs and firmware.
• Three dedicated power supplies feeding nine Belleson SPX ultralow-noise ultrahigh-dynamic regulators isolate every circuit, chip, clock, and module.
• LC choke input power supply typology provides the highest impedance to AC, lowest impedance to DC, and unequaled durability and longevity.
• Ground lift isolates the signal ground from Earth, chassis, and AC grounds.
• Field convertible from 110VAC to 250VAC.
• 9"W x 3"H x 15"D and 19 pounds.

DAC Model Comparison Chart

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Included are our top-of-the-line nano crystal core chokes.

Nano crystal core chokes provide better musical flow, better harmonic coherency, more engaging emotional expression, a more open and ethereal top end, a richer and more luscious midrange, and more textured and tuneful bass.

Appreciated by people with highly resolving systems.

Appreciated by people who mostly listen to acoustic music.

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Included are our most advanced anti-resonance upgrades:

• Sorbothane pads under power transformer and chokes.
• ISO Acoustics GAIA Neo anti-resonance footers.
• Viscoelastic Butyl polymer chassis treatment.

Highly effective for systems with deep intense bass response.

Highly effective for people who listen to music at high volumes.

Highly effective when anti-resonant audiophile furniture is not used.

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We incorporate the most musically transparent component parts from the audiophile, aerospace, telecommunications, and military industries.

• Ultra-fast ultralow-noise zero-recovery Silicon Carbide Schottky diodes.
• Lundahl C-core chokes with ferrous, amorphous, or nano crystal cores.
• Vishay TX2575 "Nude" resistors matched to 0.1% in the analog signal path.
• Nine Belleson SPX ultralow-noise ultrahigh-dynamic regulators.
• Direct-coupled Staccato discrete class A op amp modules.
• Custom JL Sounds ultralow-noise femto clocked USB input module.
• Silver mica capacitors used in low-pass ultrasonic reconstruction filters.
• OCC UniCrystal copper V-Quad wire used in power supplies.
• Vintage mil-spec paper-in-oil capacitors used in power supplies.
• Ultrafast low ESR organic polymer capacitors used in power supplies.
• Thermally stable CoG MLCC and WIMA film capacitors used in power supplies.
• Furutech rhodium-plated FT-909 low-mass nano crystal formula RCA jacks.
• Sorbothane and viscoelastic butyl polymer resonance dampening.
• ERS paper electromagnetic/radio frequency shielding.
• Bybee Gold Slipstream and Quantum Purifiers.
• ISO Acoustics GAIA Neo footers.

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