It excels at high end detail, I'm noticing cues in music that I often find harder to hear (if at all) on lower end DAC's and without any required critical listening on my part to observe. Its also designed to sound great and let me tell you, it does this quite well. Now onto the sound, this DAC/AMP solution is mostly aimed at being portable.

The white LED button in the front (power on and off button in reality) is also not overly bright. All in all very minimal and well designed. Solid construction as well, doesn't feel like a small brick of cheap ass plastic. Very sleek and low profile which I personally enjoy. Input data rate : up to 192KS/s (optical), 96KS/s (USB) (tested both and they are 100 percent functional without errors or static popping). It won't run any 600 Ohm monsters but you should really be looking at a beefier solution for those kinds of can's anyway, such as a dedicated headphone amp. Output impedance : 47 ohms RCA, 10-300 ohms headphone impedance (this is excellent for a vast array of growing low impedance cans out there). Power source : USB 5V (meaning bus powered and they do offer an optional AC adapter if you require it)įull-scale output : 2.0V RMS (RCA and Headphone)

USB controller : TI1020B (able to process up to 96/24-bit)

Audioengine d1 dac sound grainy