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
I paid 1k for this DAC a couple years back and its been an absolute treat.. take my word on it. This DAC sounds and performs absolutely amazing for the price. I have it on my desktop running it with my PC and outputs to the headphone amp, which I use ZMF Atticus and IMR R1 IEMs, as well to Audioengine HD6. Shit sounds GOOD @ PCM 384 and DSD128.
Besides, for the money you have to pay for the 503 you could get this plus a dedicated preamp like the Schiit Saga, run RCA to that for your speaker amp and run XLR to your balanced headphone amp.
-Austin
The monitor out does sound very nice with easy to drive low impedance cans. But really, you're going to want to run this thing to an external amp of some sort (headphone or speaker).