What would be a good portable Dac/Amp to use with my HD6xx and Sony Xperia 1 V cell phone?
I am new to this hobby. I purchased a HD6XX and plan to use it with my Sony Xperia 1 V cell phone, that has a 3.5mm jack. I was wondering if I needed a portable dac/amp or just a portable amp and if so what would one recommend? Any assistance one could provide, would be greatly appreciated. Kind regards, Haz
Mar 7, 2024
One thing to understand about Grace Design is that we aim really high with our designs, which is why till now our headphone amp / DACs have all been in the $2k range. The real work for us with the m9XX was to land this in this price range without having to sell our soul and make something we didn't really believe in. This is to say, we had to make some hard decisions, mostly about features such as analog in, that would end up making the m9XX more expensive. Its not as simple as just tacking on an analog input somewhere on the rear panel. There would be many more components, a different kind of volume control, greater power budget constraints, and on an on, to the point that this drop would probably be $699 or higher.
With total bias, but also deep understanding of how we design and build our equipment, the m9XX affords playback quality which approaches our $2k amp / DACs. The big job was pairing down the feature set to what is essential, while maintaining the performance on which we have built our reputation.
Hope this helps!
Reading that makes me feel good about potentially purchasing this. Hopefully this can be communicted more through the marketing because it seems a lot of people are kind of confused and unsure about this product. Then again, maybe it will be communicated more through word-of-mouth by the people who purchase this in the first round.