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Though on first glance, it might seem a bit under-powered. So, a DAC and headphone amp disguised as a USB stick sounds like a great idea - and the DragonFly Red, like the DragonFly Cobalt above, pulls it off superbly. Adding a dedicated DAC, no matter how small, can make all the difference. The majority of DACs and headphone amplifiers fitted to smartphones or laptops are cheap and not very good.
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Read the full review: Audiolab M-DAC nano Overall, it's an exciting and entertaining performance that will improve your music on the move with minimum fuss. Not only that, but it also adds volume while still managing to refine the sound. Sonically, it's just as sweet as the custard cream we mentioned earlier: this is an impressively solid performance, giving a marked improvement in bass punch and power.
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It’s light, weighing in at just 28g, and there's a built-in rechargeable battery, too.īeing small and light are major plus points for portability, but the nano’s biggest advantage over rivals such as the Cyrus Soundkey or the AudioQuest Dragonfly (below) is that the connection with your device is done wirelessly, in this case by aptX Bluetooth (v4.2). The M-DAC nano is a tiny unit, barely bigger than a custard cream biscuit.
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Highly recommended.Ī great way to improve the sound of your phone or laptop, we can’t think of a better alternative for portable use. It can sit in the tiny watch pocket of your jeans, doing its good work nowhere near your actual phone, and if you’re working in a cafe, it will both look and sound exceptionally good next to your flat white. It levels up your phone’s sound with very little effort or added weight in your pocket or strain on your wallet. However, when portability is paramount and convenience is key, you cannot currently better the iFi Go Blu. When discussing DACs to improve the sound quality of your music, Bluetooth puts the cat among the pigeons owing to the inescapable truth that its delivery has yet to catch up with both wi-fi and wired listening for a truly high fidelity sound. The headline is that this portable DAC/headphone amp offers a Bluetooth 5.1 connection to your source device (although not to your headphones, those still need to be wired into the unit) thus eliminating one wire from the potentially bulky, tangled equation of phone, to DAC, to headphones.
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Read the full review: AudioQuest DragonFly Cobalt It's a great feature for at-a-glance checking, and helps justify the extra outlay. Once attached to your laptop or smartphone, and selected as means of audio output, the DAC’s LED will shine one of six colours to indicate sampling rate: red for standby, green for 44.1kHz, blue for 48kHz, yellow for 88.2 kHz, light blue for 96kHz or purple when decoding MQA.
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Yes it costs around a little more, but it does take performance to another level. The new model boasts a more advanced DAC chip, and a new microprocessor draws less current and bumps up the DAC's processing speed. Want all the benefits of the DragonFly Red (2.1v headphone output, bit-perfect digital volume control and MQA renderer) with more detail, greater dynamics and an even better sense of timing? Then you should try the latest instalment in AudioQuest's line of portable DACs - the DragonFly Cobalt. Not the most relaxed sound -Adaptor can be tricky to fit Given there's no Bluetooth connectivity or headphone amp on-board, the Qutest’s sole purpose is to be the digital-to-analogue bridge between your digital source and amplifier. The Qutest boasts Chord's trademark colour-denoting buttons which tell you which source it's drawing on: they glow white for USB-Type-B (capable of accepting 32-bit/768kHz PCM/DSD512) yellow for the first BNC coaxial and red for the second (24-bit/384kHz) and green for the optical (24-bit/192kHz/DSD64). But when it does you're in for a treat: songs are imbued with a great sense of scope, and there's warmth and texture in abundance. The DAC delivers a crisp, clean and concise sound, with Chord's now familiar neutral tonal balance.Īs with all decent hi-fi gear, it'll take a bit of running in time before the Qutest really starts to sing. It's the product that lesser rivals look up to at this price point.
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Chord continues to light up the premium market for DACs and the Qutest is the proof.