MARK LEVINSON № 519 NOW WITH ADDED ROON AND MQA
Mark Levinson's highly regarded № 519 digital audio player has just received a significant firmware upgrade that enables MQA decoding and grants it Roon Ready certification.
This latest update empowers the № 519 to allow you to browse, organise and listen to your favourite tracks, or explore millions more via TIDAL, and its library of MQA Masters tracks.
Additionally, Roon's impressively intuitive interface brings about a world of bios, lyrics and even tour dates of your favourite artists to explore. Furthermore, remember that Roon is also a multi-room, multi-user networked audio platform, offering features such as bit-perfect playback, DSD and PCM upsampling, multichannel support, and Signal Path display.
As a refresh, the Mark Levinson № 519 Audio Player combines wireless and wired streaming from networked libraries and streaming services, a CD player, and connections for USB drives, digital audio inputs, as well as sporting Bluetooth aptX.
Now that the № 519 is also fully MQA certified it means playback and authentication of MQA audio files is added including streams from TIDAL, Roon, USB drives, DLNA, and MQA encoded CDs.
All of that is in addition to the content that the № 519 already has access to such as Spotify Connect, Qobuz, Deezer, and Rhapsody/Napster.
The Mark Levinson № 519 was already a highly-regarded source as you would expect from this prestigious brand, but the latest firmware is an early Christmas present that gives you even more.
Available now, the Mark Levinson № 519 sells for £21,000 RRP.
For more information visit Mark Levinson.
Jay Garrett
StereoNET’s resident rock star, bass player, and gadget junkie. Jay heads up StereoNET as Editor for the United Kingdom and Europe regions. His passion for gadgets and Hi-Fi is second only to being a touring musician.
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