the more i listen to various dachshunds the more it becomes clear that there are seldom material differences in sound quality no matter what price bracket you delve into if your mindset is to buy the most flashy the most coveted the most hyped audiophile gear then you will find a way to justify that expense but the word audiophile to me means simply somebody who loves listening to their music you don't have to love the associated gear which frankly tends to distract people from just enjoying what they've already got i find affordable alternatives to the hyped and coveted products among the audiophile jargon-laden ads and commentaries today we're going into the sub NUMBER_TOKEN dac amp realm once again we're taking a look at the hotties sNUMBER_TOKEN pro a NUMBER_TOKEN dongle dac from a company that has made a name for itself by targeting the sub NUMBER_TOKEN market hifigo sent me the sNUMBER_TOKEN pro to review as you probably know hifigo is among a few online resellers that provides access to a lot of chi-fi gear you'll find the exotic along with the mundane if you fancy spending some time looking at the various chinese products head over to hifigo's website now let's talk about the sNUMBER_TOKEN pro heidi says that the sNUMBER_TOKEN pro is the ultra portable lossless dac they're using an essNUMBER_TOKENc pro dac this chip is in a few other devices including the more expensive hiladak heidi says that the sNUMBER_TOKEN pro will render all pcm up to NUMBER_TOKEN bit at NUMBER_TOKEN kilohertz dsd-NUMBER_TOKEN and mqa the sNUMBER_TOKEN pro is supposedly fully compatible with apple music's spatial audio format however you do need to use the lightning otg cable for apple compatibility heidi's has three firmwares that they claim will provide different tuning they have a balanced treble and bass firmwares on hati's website they show you a vague graph that depicts the sound alterations the sNUMBER_TOKEN pro has a neat feature that most portable dac amps don't the sNUMBER_TOKEN pro lets you use headphone or earphone cables with in-line microphones and playback controls this means that you can use the sNUMBER_TOKEN pro with a headset or in-light microphone heidi says that the sNUMBER_TOKEN pro provides NUMBER_TOKEN milliwatts into NUMBER_TOKEN ohms the sNUMBER_TOKEN pro is a fairly small product it's made of metal the non-detachable cable is pliable and looks quite nice it has copper colored and gray sheathing the sNUMBER_TOKEN pro has usbc connection into your device the sNUMBER_TOKEN pro has only a single ended NUMBER_TOKEN millimeter headphone jack on top there's a tiny led which changes among three colors to identify whether you're playing cd quality pcm high res pcm or mqa to update among the firmware options you have to download the firmware package from heidi's obviously this means you cannot switch among the different profiles on the fly you have to manually install the various tunings each time you want to change them this means a b tests are impossible without a second device ultimately the sNUMBER_TOKEN pro is not the smallest dac amp on the market but
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