Highlights
Quality
I use this with optical out from my ps4 on both my sennheiser hd 598 ses and the cs and the quality is excellent
I am running this off of an asus sabertooth mark 2 z97 board and the audio quality is to my ear much better with this dac
Overall you should be very happy with the quality of sound this product produces
Dont get me wrong overall it is very good and most people will probably be happy with the unit as a doitall
Price
Then i looked around and this device uses about the same chipset for about the price it would have cost me but without the inve... Read More
Packaging/appearance
So this dac is definetely better than the one inside the chromecast audio and the one inside the avr
I bought this later after i bought the fiio e10k for a different purpose i
Competitiveness
I also own a micca origen and a smsl dp1 and i prefer this one for the sound
Also running the dac through to my audioengine a5 speakers
Makes me want to try a schiit stack but at the same time i wonder if its worth the upgrade
Love the fact that it like most smsl products features a 14 output
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- This product had a total of 259 reviews as of our last analysis date on Jun 15 2021.
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Running hooked up through spdif from my computer
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Every rock song feels like the band is playing in your living room
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Comparing this to the fiio e10k they are not even in the same ballpark its not even close
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I thought that maybe there was nothing inside
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The rattle turned out to be just the front button rattling a bit in the hole cutout
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
When i sat down and designed a product like this before i discovered this one i came up with almost exactly the same design they used
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
It is in no way designed as a high end headphone amplifier for driving headphones
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
As a headphone amp its not worth 80