Musical Fidelity has released details of its new M1 SDAC. This new amp builds on the success of the award-winning M1 DAC and uses parts from the M6 DAC, the M1 SDAC is a DAC, preamp, headphone amp and aptX Bluetooth receiver in one.

Set to retail at £799, the M1 SDAC has a selection of inputs: two digital coaxial inputs, one digital optical input, one AES/EBU balanced input, an asynchronous USB input and two RCA analogue inputs.

The digital coaxial, balanced and USB inputs all accept music files up to 24/192, while all the digital inputs are internally upsampled to 24/192.

There’s a coaxial and an optical output, too, plus an analogue-to-digital converter within the DAC section, allowing a digital output for any input.

Also on board are the aptX Bluetooth and headphone amplifier modules. The Bluetooth receiver is Musical Fidelity’s V 2.1 aptX receiver, which accepts up to 24bit/48kHz files.

Based on Musical Fidelity’s previous audio hardware, this hopefully should be a gem, and having Bluetooth apt-x is excellent.