AudioQuest DragonFly DAC USB Digital Audio Converter - Black

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Audioquest is one of the most well-regarded cable manufacturers in the world, with each cable seeing a level of meticulous detail in both its aesthetic construction, as well as intuitive engineering within to provide an impressive performance. Pairing with smoother sounding transducers, or those with a modest high-frequency dip can help ameliorate these, rather minor, traits; as can ensuring you’re using transducers with more modest power requirements.

Direct-coupled, medium output: More than enough power to successfully drive a wide range of today’s efficient headphones.Results might be different with AudioQuest’s higher-output DragonFly Red, though we’ll have to wait until we can get our hands on one to be sure. The Elex are a little more forgiving than the Clear, as the improved resolution of the Clear is sufficient to more readily expose the slight treble grain of the little Dragonfly, where this is somewhat rounded off with the Elex. Part of the reason I bought the Dragonfly were to feed it into the Burson Fun, yet unfortunately all Dragonfly drawbacks became Dragonfly 1. Stage is, interestingly, rendered a little wider than I’m used to with the AKGs, though not to a degree that resulted in a lack of body or a sense of things being diffuse.

volt output, DragonFly Red is compatible with a wider range of headphones, including power-hungry, low-efficiency models. In Gordon Rankin’s monoClock® technology, a single ultra-low-jitter clock generated from the ESS DAC chip runs the headphone amplifier, as well as all microcontroller functionalities, enabling DragonFly to produce greater resolution and clarity than DACs that employ multiple clocks. And not just in terms of available power, which is about 3x that of typical built-in headphone outputs - but in reference to overall quality. Regardless, if you are looking for an entry-level product that helps you pick out “things that weren’t there before”, this is the one DAC/amp you’re looking for. One of the nice things with USB-powered DAC/amps is that as long as the device you’re connecting it to, e.I own the Beyerdynamic 880 pro and 770 pro and have to agree with you - the synergy (dragonfly black + LG V30/V40 + Qobuz through UAPP + beyers) is unbelievable. Since i am a music producer, too I thought why not invest into an new audio interface with great converters. With DragonFly Black, any computer, laptop, tablet, or smartphone can be used as a true high-fidelity music player, allowing music lovers to enjoy beautiful sound wherever they go, whenever they please. The new Audioquest Dragonfly Black is software upgradeable through complimentary Windows and OS X desktop applications.