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
BTW, I got my shipping notice about 15 minutes ago--12:30 AM here in NJ.
However, I do have some problems with the Tidal Windows 10 app. I've had it almost a year and it worked perfectly until about three months ago when I began to have multiple problems with it. Between 10-20% of the time, the track will not automatically advance at its conclusion but buffer endlessly until advanced manually. Extremely annoying. Also Tidal Masters (24 bit/192kHz, available on a small but growing number of albums at no additional charge if you have Tidal HiFi but only on the Tidal PC app) has become unusable since about 75% of the time when a new track starts it is distorted sludge unless manually restarted. Tidal Support was extremely unhelpful and even snippy, closing my ticket after 2-3 days (on Labor Day weekend in the US, BTW) when I was unable to find all the information they requested. (TBH, I really don't notice much improvement with Masters recordings, which uses something called MQA. Apparently the real improvement of this format cannot really be heard unless your DAC can decode MQA, and Schiit ATM declines to add this to its DACs. Tidal software will decode it in this case, but not at the same level of quality as hardware decoding.)
I do understand that Spotify will probably be adding a lossless level in the near future. Given the gaps in Tidal's catalog, and my bad experience with Tidal support, I will likely switch when Spotify lossless is available.
Then I listen to so this audiophile mix music playlist on youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-h6MoF7HLA&list=RDD-h6MoF7HLA&t=1
Also what ever high quality music files you have on your computer.
As for songs, I finally got a FLAC of Spock's Beard, "At the End of the Day" and I'll definitely be running that. My favorite song for the entire time I've been collecting music. After that I'll likely run the gamut with the entirety of Ayreon's "The Source" in Tidal's MQA version.
Most of Wilco's albums are available in these "Master" versions, which I particularly like!
I should probably look into getting an MQA DAC to make best use of it...