A second BNC socket allows the Brooklyn to act as master clock for other equipment. And this isn't the exactly a bad idea, since the Brooklyn has a Mytek Femto clock Generator™ with a claimed internal jitter of only 0.82 picoseconds in the direct vicinity of the ESS Sabre 9018K2M converter chip. The Stereo 192-DSD-DAC was still equipped with the Sabre 9016 chip. The 9018—according to its data sheet—has 3dB more dynamic range and 3dB less harmonic distortion. Contrary to the predecessor model, the user can no longer make changes to the signal processing within the chip. The Brooklyn neither supports different filters nor an up-sampling option. Marcin Hamerla explained to me via Skype that they simply followed the chip manufacturer's specifications in this respect, and also that he redesigned the analogue output section. When testing the 192-DSD-DAC at that time, its sound already automatically reminded me of the Wadia—whose output stage was described by its developer as a "sledgehammer" without exaggerating.

As already reported here in a company profile, Mytek's converters and professional monitoring systems are primarily designed by Michal Jurewicz in New York and Marcin Hamerla in Warsaw. Marcin is now being supported by four other engineers, and he also oversees manufacturing. In addition, he is responsible for the new switching power supply, which gives the Brooklyn the capacity to now supply up to six watts of output power through the redesigned headphone preamp as well. The two headphone sockets underneath the Mytek logo provide an in-phase and a phase-reversed signal, making balanced headphone operation possible with a special adapter or cable (that unfortunately isn't supplied with the product). Back again to the power supply: if you prefer to use a conventional power supply rather than the switching unit, you can connect one of your choice to the optional DC power input on the backside.

The fairly large hi-res colour display not only makes configuration of the Brooklyn via the menu an easy task, it also informs the user about the levels of the converted audio signal using two bar graphs per channel: one to display the peaks, and one for the average level corresponding to the perceived loudness. In addition to the bar graphs, all four values are also displayed as numeric values on the right hand side of the display, which I find a bit redundant. During our Skype conversation, Marcin Hamerla promised that the next firmware update would optionally allow for the numeric values to permanently display the highest peak level, making it a so-called peak-hold meter. But Mytek also thought of all the music lovers that find this studio functionality to be unnecessary. A single push of the rotary knob causes the display to only display the sample rate and bit depth of the converted signal plus the output level; all in discreet black and white. Nice to have a choice!