The two-chassis design is milled from solid billets of aluminum in MSB’s shop, with the DAC itself resting on a matching Power Base power supply. Far from simply a pretty piece of aluminum with a generic, off-the-shelf DAC chipset shoved into it, the Select uses eight of MSB’s own Hybrid two-channel DACs in a user-replaceable setup. Each of the Select’s inputs, including USB, optical, and coaxial, as well as the Select’s XLR analog outputs, is modular in nature. So, too, is MSB’s Galaxy Femto 77 clock, which has less than 77 femtoseconds of jitter. An optional Femto 33 (predictably, offering less than 33 femtoseconds of jitter) is also available and easily replaceable. The flagship MSB DAC can support pretty much any existing digital format, and it decodes PCM and DSD natively —
