Hi, guys, this is Drew Baird from Moon Audio, and I'm at the LA Audio Fest
and we're going to be talking about some new Mytek products. I'm with Chevron from Mytek,
and he's going to tell us about the new Manhattan 2 as well as talk a little bit about the Brooklyn.
That's been out for a little while now, so it's not so new, but he's going to give us a little
bit about the differences between the Brooklyn and the Manhattan. And also we're really excited about
the new Brooklyn Amp, a two-channel, 300-watt per channel, Class D amp to go with your Brooklyn,
so now you can run a bunch of speakers as well. So tell us a little bit about the products.
[Chevron ] Hey, really glad to be here. Moon Audio's been supporting us since the debut of
our stereo 192 DSD DAC, more than five years, and keeping the partnership going, I'm standing
here and wanting to tell you about what makes Mytek stuff so great right now. I've mentioned that
this is the Manhattan 2. This is the upgraded from the Manhattan 1. The Manhattan one was
built basically as an extension to explore how much further we could go from the stereo 192 DSD
DAC. And all the innovations that we put into the Manhattan, one is what we were able
to derive and scale down for the Brooklyn. And so that's having a femto clock, that's really exploring
like how to have better power, ideas for integrating a switching power supply into the
Brooklyns to make things easier, and exploring kind of a topology of like a really fast clear
strong sound. The phono preamplifier that we initially designed and made as an option card
for the Manhattan one is what we distilled down and put into the Brooklyn. And so with
the Brooklyn that's been out for a little bit more than a year now, it's been a really great
product in the marketplace and we had a lot of great feedback from it. Aand now we wanted to take
everything that is the Brooklyn and make that next big step up, and that represents the Manhattan 2.
The big differences between the Manhattan two and the Manhattan one are that this is fully MQA
compliant, so that is able to play PCM from 44.1 to 384 kilohertz MQA, as well as
DSD 256. The sound quality of the Manhattan has been greatly improved, specifically
by using Sabres latest chip, which is an incredibly difficult eight-channel chip to use, and it made
us really challenge our design flexibility to see what we could get out of it, and the sound that
we did achieve really was worth the effort. It's a very muscular, very thick, and fluid at the
same time. It still has that great accuracy that Mytek's known for, but now it has this kind of
a girth of sound that you would expect from analog. Beyond that, the new analog preamplifier in here
is greatly updated. It's a brand new design. If you're looking for a preamp for your two-channel
system and you want something that's world-class in a much more compact package, the Manhattan 2
is going to serve you just fine. It's going to be really special and people are already loving it a
lot. And so that takes care of like our high-end world, our reference land of Manhattan 2, but for
all of our customers that have been enjoying the Brooklyn and new customers looking at it, we're
interested in exploring a very kind of pared-down, clean, minimal aesthetic, and that's why we made the
Brooklyn. And this is not a simple product that we just kind of banged away. We've been researching
and wanting to do something like this for a number of years now, and we built it on Class D.
Typically class D hasn't had a lot of a sense of having a great thickness of sound, a really big
sound, but this version of the Class D through our development really has something that rivals what
we think is Class A or even triode designs. It's a very compact, powerful design. The Manhattan Amp -- or,
excuse me -- the Brooklyn Amp weighs six pounds, is dual-mono, 300 watts per side, and pre-orders
are starting today. You can talk to our guys here, Drew and Moon Audio, and they'll get you sorted right up. And
they'll be shipping in July. We're really excited to hear what everyone has to say about it, and we
think it looks beautiful.
[ Drew ] And the only last thing I would add is also the new Manhattan also has a network card
that can be added to it so that you can make it an endpoint for your Roon system.
So you can do network audio with it as well, which is a really nice, new feature that I'm looking
forward to playing around with. So thank you so much, Chevron, and that's Mytek at LA Audio Show.