SPL Mercury Mastering D/A Converter

Mastering D/AConverter in 120V Technology

The Mercury Mastering D/A Converter perfectly connects the SPL Mastering Universe to the digital world. Mercury is a stereo digital to analog converter that fulfills the highest demands both technologically and tonally. Mercury provides connections for a total of seven digital stereo input sources. It provides an USB input, two coaxial, two optical and two AES/EBU inputs – the AES Input 2 also supports Dual-Wire (DW) mode. Each digital sources has its dedicated and illuminated switch for instant selection and fast comparison. The mandatory low-pass filters that immediately follow the DA converter’s analog output are built in 120V rail technology. The filters are each optimized for PCM and for DSD playback. We refer to them as DLP120, which stands for dual low-pass filters in 120V technology. DLP120 significantly increases the dynamic range and headroom beyond the current benchmarks. Conversion is designed around AKM’s highly acclaimed Velvet-Sound® converter technology that sports sampling rates of up to 768kHz, 32bit and Direct Stream Digital up to DSD4. Mercury provides two sets of analog stereo outputs. One of which is fixed and can be calibrated to all common reference levels, the other provides an analog controllable output level, which makes Mercury a state-of-the-art monitor controller as well.

The SPL Mercury Mastering D/A Converter was developed and manufactured in Germany.