AudioQuest DragonFly DAC USB Digital Audio Converter - Black

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The extremely detailed, smooth and nuanced treble capabilities of the Zeus XR aren’t exploited as well as they could be by the Black, since these IEMs do provide an absolutely transparent window into the minor treble grain audible from the AudioQuest unit - but at the same time they do not exacerbate it. I also fed it through my SPL Phonitor x amplifier (single-ended, using an AudioQuest “Golden Gate” 3. These DACs proved for once and for all that convenience and performance need no longer be mutually exclusive.

These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation. If you have any concerns regarding this, please contact us and we will do are very best to help you. The new DragonFly models embody many of Gordon’s most innovative, creative, and elegant digital-audio solutions to date. The process is very simple, both for Windows and Mac; download the updater, run it, plug your Dragonfly in, and hit “Update”. Cobalt features the same ESS Sabre 9601 headphone amp and bit-perfect volume control that give DragonFly Red its unique combination of power and grip over the music.Dragonfly Black is a simple plug-and-play USB headphone amp + DAC ( Digital-to-Analog Converter) that is an easy and affordable way to elevate the sound of your IEMs. to my bigger, more expensive amp/DACs (Burson Play or Aune S16 + Burson Fun) is just like comparing onboard sound to the Black itself: the high ranges feel more grainy and the low ranges not as tight.

The Dragonfly itself already sounds great but in conjunction with a nice headphone amp = match made in heaven!In A/B tests, we didn’t detect any glaring coloration in the sound — which is exactly what we prefer — but the DragonFly Black does a much better job driving low and medium-impedance headphones than the iPhone’s Lightning Adapter. DragonFly Red includes the latest ESS headphone amp and a bit-perfect digital volume control that resides on the 9016 DAC chip itself—a sophisticated implementation that ensures maximum fidelity, dynamic contrast, and signal-to-noise ratio.