And as a further enhancement, it has a separate USB-C power port if you don’t want it to burden the battery of your smartphone, tablet, or laptop computer. To assure positive connectivity an XMOS 200 series USB controller is employed. Built around the Cirrus Logic CS43198 DAC chip, it is able to decode PCM up to 32-bit/384kHz as well as DXD (24-bit/352.8kHz), DSD256 (11.2MHz) and MQA.
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EarMen Donald DAC:Īs mentioned above the EarMen Donald DAC is a standalone portable digital to analog converter designed to be connected to any integrated amp (an amplifier with volume control) or receiver via single-ended RCA outputs and using a smartphone, tablet, or computer as source via USB-C. Though, when I received them I thought they were meant to operate together, I quickly discovered that although the Donald DAC is a standalone DAC for use with any amplifier via single-ended (RCA) outputs, the TR-Amp is a battery-powered portable DAC/Amplifier for use with smartphone, tablet, or computer. While the product names indicate a sense of humor on the part of their designer (possibly political in nature), pun-ish monikers aside, the EarMen products are serious audio products.
The two products that were sent to me for review were the EarMen Donald DAC and the EarMen TR-Amp. Though based in Chicago, all EarMen products designed and engineered by Miki are built in Europe “to ensure the highest standards in production quality”. Miki Trosic of Auris Audio fame has decided to ply his innumerous talents to the portable audio market and the result of this is EarMen.
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