iFi Audio hip-dac2

Mac, greatly improving headphone sound. Connect your playback device to the hip-dac2 via USB, connect your favourite headphones or in-ear earphones and the hip-dac2 delivers sound that is bursting with dynamics and detail. The integrated Burr-Brown DAC chip was chosen for its lifelike, highly musical sound quality. Together with iFi's proprietary circuitry, the hip-dac2 delivers outstanding sound quality for all digital audio formats, including bit-perfect PCM, native DSD and MQA. The 16-core XMOS chip, which processes data via USB, offers a high clock rate and plenty of memory. This improves the overall performance of the hip-dac2, so that it can even handle full MQA decoding. A high-quality quartz clock also contributes to a particularly pure, clear sound. Whether you're working in your favourite café or chilling on your daily commute, sunrise or sunset, you'll definitely want the hip-dac2 with you. The amplifier stage can output 400 mW of power, ensuring compatibility with a wide range of headphone and earphone types without sacrificing quality. Even high-impedance headphones are easily driven thanks to an output voltage of 6.3V into 600 ohms (via the balanced output). The PowerMatch function allows the level of amplification to be matched to the load of the connected headphones by perfectly adjusting the input sensitivity and thus the signal strength for your headphones.