Hello, I just joined, primarily for the audiophile products. Looking at purchasing the NHT C3 speakers for our new living room. Space is about 15 feet wide by 33 long and they will fire long ways. Space is just for general listening, music room with all equipment is downstairs, so hoping they will fill it with sound nicely. Cheers.
Mar 18, 2024
As for the Geekout, you should be able to find multiple comparisons between that and the Slim online.
That's what I do all day. 0_0;
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Those two products serve for different goals. The CEntrance offering with a battery costs quite a bit more than the Dragonfly, so it shouldn't really compete with it at a 200 dollar price point. The past DACportable Slim definitely wins over the Dragonfly, but alas, that offering is gone for people now. The DACport still draws a lot of power, so for portable use, the Dragonfly should last longer. Yes, it still draws power from the phone, but it's worth mentioning (I'm trying hard to nitpick reasons that justify the price of the Dragonfly here! I absolutely hate it and think nobody deserves to waste their money on it for that price). Aside from more power draw, there really isn't anything I can bring up that makes the Dragonfly shine. It has a lower noise floor, but the similarly priced DACport HD also has that . It has a different dac chip, if one really wants to think that the chip makes all the difference, but if you really believe so, there are desktop offerings for 200 dollars that do better.
Just grab a Slim and a battery pack/usb otg y cable, or just go with the HD. :P
Or be a weirdo like me and just go with the phone. Good enough for most people.
For those with a rooted Android phone, the newest Viper4Android is out! Supports cross-channel convolver so you can get the same effect from Joe Bloggs' crossffrom plugin for Foobar.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=68473076#post68473076