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MBL C41 Network Player
Introducing the MBL C41 Network Player – Digitally Connected at the Highest Level
For audiophiles seeking unparalleled sound quality and a seamless music streaming experience, the MBL C41 Network Player stands as the epitome of digital excellence. Equipped with a state-of-the-art digital-to-analog converter and our proprietary MBL True Peak technology, the C41 ensures your music is reproduced with utmost fidelity and naturalness.
What sets the C41 apart is the innovative MBL Core Volume Control technology, a groundbreaking advancement developed by MBL. This technology allows for volume adjustment at unprecedented levels of quality, ensuring that your listening experience is not only pristine but also dynamically responsive to your control.
The C41 is designed to work harmoniously with a variety of streaming partners, including ROON1, UPNP/DLNA, Audirvāna, Airplay/Shairport, Tidal, Spotify, and Qobuz, putting your favorite music at your fingertips. Its extensive array of inputs and outputs ensures easy integration into existing hi-fi systems, making it a versatile addition to your audio setup. With its built-in volume control, the C41 can act as the control center in hi-fi chains that use purely digital sources, eliminating the need for a separate preamplifier.
Embrace the future of audio with the MBL C41 Network Player. Your next audiophile adventure begins here, where technology meets tradition in the pursuit of perfect sound.
True Peak Technologie
The simple calculation, 16 x 6 = 96, represents the dynamic range of a CD, meaning the ratio between the quietest sound a disc can store and the loudest noise it is capable of producing as defined in decibels. The audio tracks of the CD are encoded with 16 bits. Each bit delivers a dynamic range of 6 decibels, making a total of 96 decibels of dynamic range.
One might think that would be enough to flawlessly capture a piece of music on a digital file or CD recording with the lowest levels of the music sufficiently far away from noise, and with enough safety distance from distortion-prone overloads. This is the assumption of the major manufacturers of digital-analogue converter chips, such as AKM, ESS or Texas Instruments (Burr-Brown).
Unfortunately, audio reality paints a completely different picture, especially with pop music where overdriven recordings are the order of the day. Every music producer wants his songs to be loud and dynamic when they reach the audience’s ears. What could be achieved by any listener with a simple turn of the volume knob is built in right from the start by many recording studios where producers encode the music signal hard and fast to the maximum level. This is to the detriment of the highest-quality music playback. If several samples on a CD are fully distorted one after the other, the digital filters of the converters generate waveforms that are overdriven by up to three decibels – and are then abruptly cut or “clipped.” Unpleasant distortions are the audible and measurable outcome of this practice.
Fortunately, this is not the case with MBL's converter design. With sophisticated stop-gaps built into the digital filters, MBL’s engineers have ingeniously created an additional modulation reserve of three decibels, thereby correcting and basically eliminating any sound-degrading overloads from CD or music files. We call it True Peak Technology. Listeners call it extraordinary. The result is natural, distortion-free sound from CDs and digital music files – even at peak volume levels.
Extraordinary, indeed!
The C41 at a glance
- High flexibility due to various inputs and outputs
- State-of-the-art DA-converter with MBL True Peak technology
- Resolution and sampling rates up to 24 bit / 192 kHz as well as DSD64
- Integrated volume control with rotary knob on the front of the housing
- Display of title information on VFD display
- Control of the streaming servers via smart keys on the front of the housing
- Wide range of usable streaming services: ROON, UPNP/DLNA, Audirvāna, Airplay/Shairport,
- Tidal*, Spotify* und Qobuz*. (*planned for future versions via live update)
- Streaming from smart phone via Airplay/Shairport
- Possibility to connect PC/Mac via USB audio input
- Easy expandability and updateability through online updates
- MBL SmartLink for simple and comprehensive system operation and integration
Technical Specifications
Sample rates: 44.1 kHz, 48 kHz, 88.2 kHz, 96 kHz, 176.2 kHz, 192 kHz, DSD64
Resolution: 16 / 24 bit
Inputs: 1 x S/P-DIF (RCA), 1 x Toslink (Snap-In), 1 x AES/EBU (XLR), 1 x USB Audio (USB type B)
Outputs; 1 x S/PDIF digital output (RCA) , 1 x analog balanced output (XLR), 1 x analog unbalanced output (RCA)
Other Inputs/Outputs: Network (RJ45), MBL SmartLink 1.0, SD-Slot for updates
Weight; 15,5 kg / 34.2 Ibs
Designed and Made in Germany
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