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"Ingenious, Great Sounding, and Highly Recommended"Supercharge your mobile music and stream to a whole new level with the nano iDSD Black Label DAC/headphone amp from iFi. It has what it takes to drive your 'phones. In fact, with maximum output power around ten times that of iPhone 6 (285mW vs. 27mW), the nano iDSD Black Label can drive most headphones on the market. The nano iDSD Black Label is small, lightweight, and battery powered. You can take it everywhere you go, and it won't drain your phone's battery. Just switch on the Black Label first and then plug in your device. The Lithium Polymer battery gives the nano iDSD Black Label 10 hours of non-stop musical enjoyment. It also has a special USB male 'A' connector for a direct connection. Use a USB-to-Lightning (Apple) or OTG connector (Android). Or if at home, just use the enclosed USB3.0 cable to connect to a PC. Stream Apple Music/Google Play/Spotify/Tidal/Youtube content from your phone to a whole other level of quality. Add kick-ass sound to your gaming by connecting your console or computer. "A Rather Tasty Cake""For the price of a stick amp, iFi's Nano iDSD Black Label musters features and output capability you won't get in most stick amps, yet it still fits in a pocket," raves Mark Fleischmann, Sound & Vision, April, 2018. "It is ingenious, great sounding, and highly recommended." "At $199 it is a bit of a steal to get IEMatch, decent levels of gain and power as well as a smooth analog type delivery with BitPerfect capability," reports Marcus at Headphonics.com, February 18, 2018. "Throwing in MQA is kind of like a selectively high-end cherry on a generally rather tasty cake." "Perfume Genius' Valley inspires head movement from the get-go with its giddy strumming, and the iFi's rendition gets across the full weight of the track's strokes of strings and flicks of keys. And they all have room to stretch out either side of the plaintive vocal," notes England's What Hi-Fi? magazine. Master Quality AuthenticatediFi always strives to bring you choice and therefore has added yet another file format to its portfolio in the form of MQA in the new Black Label. Take TIDAL or your MQA file to a whole new level. MQA is an audio technology developed by Bob Stuart. This technology makes hi-res audio streaming a reality and delivers studio master quality audio to your headphones. And speaking of hi-res audio, the nano iDSD Black Label is one of the best native highest-resolution DACs you can find, supporting PCM up to 32/384 kHz and DSD up to 256 times the sample rate of a CD, even on Mac OSX and mobile phones. (A firmware upgrade needs to be applied to enable DSD256 on all devices.) It is also certified 'High-Res Audio' according to the stringent criteria set down by JEITA and JAS (Japan Electronics and Information Technology Industries Association and Japan Audio Society). Perfect Your Listening PleasureThe nano iDSD Black Label lets you choose between the 'Listen' (Minimum Phase Bezier Filter) and 'Measure' (Linear Phase Transient Aligned Filter) options. It's the only portable DAC to give you so much control. The new headphone amplifier delivers more than double the power of the original nano iDSD into 16 Ohm and over four times the power into high-impedance headphones. Meanwhile, the built-in IEMatch circuit ensures that even extremely sensitive headphones and IEMs are 'hiss free' throughout the volume range. The nano iDSD Black Label also includes the S-Balanced wiring system for the headphone outputs, giving the full benefit of balanced outputs when used with headphones and IEMs (fitted with balanced wiring) with low-noise and lower distortion. Even unbalanced headphones benefit, as S-Balanced cuts crosstalk in half (without the need to re-wire headphones to benefit). iFi Uses the Ultimate ComponentsiFi uses the ultimate components. The nano iDSD Black Label, while very affordable, is packed to the rafters with boutique components. These include thin film resistors for audio section lower noise and distortion than standard metal film or carbon film types, Tantalum polymer capacitors for power supplies, TDK C0G capacitors for the analog filter, a Panasonic ECPU film capacitor for the critical DAC reference voltage, and an analog volume control potentiometer for best sound quality. Black also boasts a dual-mono headphone amplifier with 3.5mm TRRS balanced wiring all the way to the amplifier, despite the amplifier being single-ended this delivers all the benefits of balanced wiring. It also has a built-in iEMatch using MELF resistors for transparent matching of very sensitive headphones and/or IEMs. The nano iDSD is one of the few portable, truly audiophile DAC/headphone amps out there, and the fact that it is priced appealing to the real-world means many are going to enjoy their music a whole lot more without being excluded by the price.
"For the price of a stick amp, iFi's Nano iDSD Black Label musters features and output capability you won't get in most stick amps, yet it still fits in a pocket. It is ingenious, great sounding, and highly recommended." "The Verdict: This full-featured budget amp/DAC can get the best out of most headphones, especially in the all-important presence regions." - Mark Fleischmann, Sound & Vision, April, 2018 "At $199 it is a bit of a steal to get IEMatch, decent levels of gain and power as well as a smooth analog type delivery with BitPerfect capability. Throwing in MQA is kind of like a selectively high-end cherry on a generally rather tasty cake." - Marcus, Headphonics.com, February 18, 2018 "Perfume Genius' Valley inspires head movement from the get-go with its giddy strumming, and the iFi's rendition gets across the full weight of the track's strokes of strings and flicks of keys. And they all have room to stretch out either side of the plaintive vocal. - What Hi-Fi? magazine
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