AudioQuest DragonFly Red USB DAC, Preamp, Headphone Amp

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AudioQuest DragonFly Red USB DAC, Preamp, Headphone Amp

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Pros

It's definitely an improvement, whether it's $200 worth of improvement is hard to say. Some are simply better produced than others. The highs are better defined and clearer. As for the quality, it's harder to explain.

This replaces my dragonfly red that failed. I use it inline with my ipad going to a klipsch 2. See my pic, apple camera adapter.

Extremely portable. Very versatile and easy to use. I wonder how the dragonfly red and cobalt would sound like. My main cans are focal elegia.

The musicality is dramatically improved overall. The music feels fuller and rounder. The separation of instruments and sound stage is about the same as the oppo.

Most/all music today is digital and the ability to process a digital stream is critical to providing decent music reproduction.

Cons

It is fragile, so much so that i can't recommend anyone take it with them.

It's not an amp, it's a dac. The volume issue is not detectable with my old sennheiser hd430 headphones. This dac/amp is extremely loud compared to the v1.

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Quality

I like the sound quality, added volume, and portability.

The sound quality and amplification i get to my iphone with the dragonfly is amazing!

After getting my windows pc set up and running, i noticed that the audio through the normal audio out jack would frequently go ... Read More

Since you can’t use the chips on the motherboard of newer phones due to headphone jacks being removed (lightning and usb are di... Read More

Price

So for the price of the dragonfly red, the audio problem is solved.

So this is the sweet spot; for the price of lunch at trio, a really decent sounding dac that i don't get tired of.

And for 1/10th the price, although money is not the object here.

One can spend almost an unlimited amount of money on audio equipment, but for me it is easy to reach the point of diminishing m... Read More

Shipping

The difference in what a dac can do for you is best described by the day i got my first hdcd transport.

Competitiveness

I became aware of and chose to purchase the dragonfly(black) dac because it is the one used by one of the top esports competito... Read More

My dad is 83 and we did many ab comparisons with straight 44k and even these dragonfly’s are better than oem apple dacs.

I then tried the chord qutest, and found it to be surprisingly inferior to the red, lacking in detail and harmonics.

There is at least one other company that advertises their usb product with 24 / three hundred something.

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This product had a total of 2,930 reviews as of our last analysis date on Jul 2 2024.