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Product Description

Due to Limited Supply we require a 30% Deposit (£5999) to ensure you are among the first to receive your Mytek Empire Streamer upon the next shipment!

Designed in Brooklyn by Mytek R&D Team headed by Michal Jurewicz, Mytek Chief Design Engineer, Empire Streamer DAC is a marvel of engineering: mounted on custom milled aluminium chassis, all components are of the highest cost no object quality and are easily accessible. There are no "moving parts, no fans, no spinning drives. CPU is cooled though custom aluminium heat pipes attached to main beautifully designed chassis lid, milled from a single aluminium block. The DAC is the highest performance yet, challenging the most expensive DACs today. Computers are galvanically isolated from DAC analog board with computer/EMI noise eliminated by the Faraday cage.I7 CPU boards can easily be replace w future faster models. Roon OS engine / Mytek OS based Empire design is the most technologically advanced and best sounding hi-res music streamer available today and designed to be upgradeable for years to come.

Empire Streamer DAC is the best DAC Mytek ever made and most likely the best DAC ever made. Empire uses two ES9038PRO 8 channel chipsets, one chip per channel in dual mono fully balanced configuration. ES9038PRO is the world highest performance DAC chipset with 140dB Dynamic Range performance in balanced mono mode. No other DAC on the market today, including FPGA based DAC, achieves the 140dB Dynamic Range performance the Empire DAC. This extraordinary resolution combined with ultra transparent balanced analog stage originally designed for mastering engineers, reveals everything in the recording with unparalleled fidelity. Empire DAC easily challenges all top DAC contenders in $XX thousand price range on the market today.

Empire Streamer DAC is a Complete Roon System packaged in one beautifully designed unit, where all the features are optimised. Just turn it on, connect to wifi or wired network, sign in to hi-res Steaming Service of your choice and enjoy the music. The network setup has been already carefully optimised for the best sound and experience: ultra low noise I7cpus have no moving parts and are powered by clean oversized linear power supplies. DAC board is 100% isolated in a Faraday cage with its own dual mono linear power supply and galvanic USB isolator for up to 32bit/768k and DSD512 playback with the least interference possible. No distributed system consisting of multiple boxes can match optimised Empire architecture.

Features

COST NO OBJECT
Cost no object dual mono all balanced audio path in analog and DAC circuits. 3 oversized linear power supplies for digital, for the left and right DAC/analog circuitry, each using shielded low noise toroidal transformer with automatic adjustment to 100-240VAC.

9 ANALOG PREAMPLIFIER INPUTS
Including state of the art M/M, M/C nickel xformer based phono pre, 2 analog pre balanced inputs, each input with adjustable input sensitivity, 2 independently selectable outputs, both balanced and RCA.

DIGITAL DAC INPUTS
Streamer, SPDIF, AES/EBU, Optical, USB2, HDMI (2-channel), and Roon End Point, all w PCM DSD and MQA

STORAGE
Internal 8TB SSD. Accepts all external USB3, USBC and Network drives.

BUILT IN MYTEK OS DAC/PREAMPLIFIER PLATFORM
Allows for future functional upgrades and new DSP features of the DAC/Preamplifier to be released throughout the life of the product. There will be 3 stages of development and functionality

  • UPON SHIPPING: FIRMWARE V1.0:
    Fully functional Roon OS Streamer with complete DAC output playback, volume control
  • Q2 2021: FIRMWARE V2.0:
    As above plus full preamplifier functionality (enables functionality of already built in hardware)
  • Q4 2021: FIRMWARE V3.0:
    As above plus a la carte hi-res DSP features. Details TBA

Specifications

Product Type
Streamers / Music Servers
Brand
Mytek
Condition
New
Product Code
MYTEK-EMPIRE

Delivery Information

Delivery is free for all orders over £250.

'In Stock' items ordered before 1pm will be dispatched the same day.

We use DPD Local 'Next Day Service' for most UK deliveries. Orders sent via 'DPD Local - Next Day Service' will be fully tracked with a 1-hour delivery timeslot on the day of delivery. Standard delivery is Monday to Friday.

Saturday delivery can be selected at checkout for £19.95.

Small items and LP's may be sent using Royal Mail.

Large/heavy items may be sent using TNT Express.

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Occasionally, due to stock demand, we can sell out. If this occurs when you make a purchase, we will inform you quickly. Most out of stock items are available for dispatch within 3 working days. If your purchase is urgent, please contact us to check availability.

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