Mhdt Labs Pagoda Balanced Instructions And Manual

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Rev 1.0
Pagoda Balanced
Realistic yet Natural Sounding DAC
Mhdt Labs
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  • Page 1 Instructions and Manual Rev 1.0 Pagoda Balanced Realistic yet Natural Sounding DAC Mhdt Labs Audio Products...
  • Page 2: Important Safety Instructions

    Thank you for purchasing the Mhdt Labs’ Pagoda Balanced DAC. Please take a few moments to read over this instruction manual to get the most out of your unit. The manual describes how to operate the Mhdt Labs’ Pagoda Balanced DAC and provides some technical background information.
  • Page 3 Mhdt Laboratory Pagoda Pagoda Balanced Pagoda Pagoda Balanced Balanced Balanced Taipei, Taiwan Realistic yet Natural Sounding DAC http://www.mhdtlab.com/ apparatus. Unplug the unit from the mains supply before cleaning. The case should normally only be cleaned with a dry, soft, non-fluffy cloth. Do not spray any liquid cleaner onto the cabinet, as this may lead to dangerous shocks.
  • Page 4: Connections And Operation

    Pagoda Balanced DAC is capable of up to 24bits/192kHz digital signal inputs yet remains driving legendary PCM1704 R-2R digital to analog output. Pagoda Balanced DAC is a non over-sampling, no digital filter, no op-amp, no feedback structured DAC. This tends to produce most realistic and natural sound.
  • Page 5 Mhdt Laboratory Pagoda Pagoda Balanced Pagoda Pagoda Balanced Balanced Balanced Taipei, Taiwan Realistic yet Natural Sounding DAC http://www.mhdtlab.com/ 7 Digital input select switch – T, Toslink input, SPDIF format When any of digital inputs is selected, this input is stored after selection, and will remain the last selection after disconnection from mains power.
  • Page 6: Technical Specifications

    2.3 Powering up Before applying power to the Pagoda Balanced DAC, ensure that the correct mains voltage is used. This can be either 220-240VAC or 100-120 VAC (50/60Hz). The factory preset voltage is indicated on the rear panel.
  • Page 7: Warranty

    Mhdt Laboratory Pagoda Pagoda Balanced Pagoda Pagoda Balanced Balanced Balanced Taipei, Taiwan Realistic yet Natural Sounding DAC http://www.mhdtlab.com/ USB inputs are all in asynchronous operation. All other inputs (SPDIF) 16, 24 bits 32 kHz up to 192 kHz, please check section 5 of this manual for detail.
  • Page 8 Android (Mi TV box / cell phone) just plug and play USB2.0 driver installation on Windows OS To support 176.4kHz and 192 kHz formats, the Pagoda Balanced DAC is operated in USB2.0 full speed condition. Thus, you have to install USB2.0 driver before use USB input.
  • Page 9 Mhdt Laboratory Pagoda Pagoda Balanced Pagoda Pagoda Balanced Balanced Balanced Taipei, Taiwan Realistic yet Natural Sounding DAC http://www.mhdtlab.com/ Test if the supported formats sounded normally., Rev 1 Mar., 2015...
  • Page 10 Mhdt Laboratory Pagoda Pagoda Balanced Pagoda Pagoda Balanced Balanced Balanced Taipei, Taiwan Realistic yet Natural Sounding DAC http://www.mhdtlab.com/ Note: If you want to install different version of drivers, please uninstall previous drivers before install new driver. Rev 1 Mar., 2015...
  • Page 11 Mhdt Laboratory Pagoda Pagoda Balanced Pagoda Pagoda Balanced Balanced Balanced Taipei, Taiwan Realistic yet Natural Sounding DAC http://www.mhdtlab.com/ The uninstall is operated in control panel like following: After driver is installed properly, you may try to run media agent to play the USB2.0 audio.
  • Page 12 Mhdt Laboratory Pagoda Pagoda Balanced Pagoda Pagoda Balanced Balanced Balanced Taipei, Taiwan Realistic yet Natural Sounding DAC http://www.mhdtlab.com/ ASIO driver. You can download these drivers from CM6631_6631A-1.03(CR)\W7\SoftwareDriver\DLL is just a demonstration; it can be XP, W8, VISTA CMUACWOASIO64.dll CMUACWOASIO.dll Copy these ASIO drivers to the Components folder of Foobar2000 if you are using Foobar and restart Foobar.
  • Page 13 You can google “Powered USB hub” and choose by yourself. 7. Tube, Fuse Replacement The vacuum tube installed in Pagoda Balanced DAC is GE JAN 5670W. The reason we choose 5670W is that this tube is very reliable, durable, good sounding and easy to find in nowadays’...
  • Page 14 Mhdt Laboratory Pagoda Pagoda Balanced Pagoda Pagoda Balanced Balanced Balanced Taipei, Taiwan Realistic yet Natural Sounding DAC http://www.mhdtlab.com/ music by two hours every day, you don’t have to care about tube’s life for almost 10 years. The burn in time will takes about 1 day for components and about one month for tube.
  • Page 15: Troubleshooting

    In case there is no audio coming out of your system, there are a few things to check: Pagoda Balanced DAC accepts USB audio signal via USB port. Be sure the input is USB audio signal. Pagoda Balanced DAC accepts only SPDIF (PCM) format digital signal for the rest of inputs;...

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