While the chips used in DragonFlys Black and Red are unbeatable for the price, the minimum-phase slow roll-off filter in the 9038 results in naturally expressive sound that is always emotionally engaging and never fatiguing-a beautiful combination of warmth and detail that we find equally exciting and soothing. Why the "Slow Roll.?"Ĭobalt employs ESS's new flagship ES9038Q2M DAC chip. Streamlength and monoClock are registered trademarks of Wavelength Audio, ltd. This superior clock enables DragonFly Cobalt to provide greater resolution and clarity than DACs with multiple clocks. Further, in Gordon's monoClock ® technology, a single ultra-low-jitter clock generated from the ESS ES9038Q2M DAC chip runs the ESS chip functions as well as all microcontroller functions. Like all previous DragonFly models, Cobalt uses Gordon Rankin's precedent-setting StreamLength ® asynchronous-transfer USB code. With its higher 2.1-volt output, DragonFly Red is compatible with a wider range of headphones, including power-hungry, low-efficiency models.ĪudioQuest, Gordon Rankin: A Beautiful Partnership DragonFly Black outputs 1.2 volts-enough power to successfully drive all preamplifier input circuits and a wide range of today’s efficient headphones. While DragonFly Black uses a high-quality headphone amp and analog volume control, DragonFly Red includes a more advanced ESS headphone amp and a bit-perfect digital volume control that resides on the 9016 DAC chip itself-a sophisticated implementation that gives Red a unique combination of power and grip over the music. The ESS 9010 DAC chip in Black and the higher-performance 9016 chip in Red employ minimum-phase filtering for naturally detailed sound. In the end there are regular audio player's which use system implemented driver's (for output) and sound great with in app implemented processing (decoding, processing libs, effects and everything) like for example Selenium.DragonFly Black, the most affordable model of the award-winning DragonFly family, has been praised by Darko.Audio as “the quintessential everyman hi-fi product,” while its more sophisticated sibling, DragonFly Red, combines significantly improved performance with still exceptional value. Or you try to tweak embedded in phone what you have with an app like Neutron (for QC SoC's) but some things will disregardingly need a costume ROM with some configuration changes. So you use in app embedded drivers for USB audio 2.0 and a processing (UAPP, HiBy, HF, FiiO, Shanling.) but the chain is limited to the what app provides. ![]() Let's just say how Android default system audio implementation is bad to broken (when it resamples 44100 to 48000 Hz I consider it broken) from every view point (OS-vendor-OEM). ![]() You would be nuts not to use widely available duble precision floting point (which by the way will translate back to the precision point rounding in integer) or 64 bit FP and linear upsampling for processing (effects, EQ.) even leaving analog output going over standard output rates (44100 ~ 48000 Hz) to the extent that you want to drive noise (or most of it) out to the frequency hearing range (DSD128 for example) to where it can't be heard. ![]() That's analog domain and human hearing anyway. If you look at capability of DAC output there is absolutely no need for more than 21 bit integer precision (as you can feel remaining 3 bit's noise flor whit what ever you like it will stay beyond auditable threshold) depth or sample rate of 44100 or 44800 Hz. ![]() Bit perfect as usually prefered to means that digital source is passed on to analog output as it is (sample rate bit depth).
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