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battman
4
Sep 6, 2016
How do these compare to the Dragonfly Red and Geekout? Would it pair well with a Jitterbug?
U-3C
68
Sep 6, 2016
battmanBased on a quick comparison, the Dragonfly Red has a slight (very slight from a technical perspective, you should just ignore this) bit less power, but also lower noise. For mobile use, the Dragonfly Red should not drain battery as it was designed to be paired with a smartphone. However, it does cost about the same as the DACport HD.
As for the Geekout, you should be able to find multiple comparisons between that and the Slim online.
battman
4
Sep 6, 2016
U-3CThanks for the info. What do you think about the Schiit Fulla in comparison?
U-3C
68
Sep 6, 2016
battmanI can't say as I've never compared the two directly. Reviews online usually favor the Slim over the Fulla.
octavecat
392
Sep 7, 2016
battmansee my earlier post on the schiit fulla. sorry to be so honest about it, but it took returning my first one and getting an identical second one to realize low cost = low quality. whereas centrance has been engaged and helpful in this discussion, schiit treated me like i was ignorant about audio components and shielding. even if you don't get this centrance, do not get a schiit fulla unless you want to hear USB noise and volume noise crackle all through imbalanced panning
battman
4
Sep 7, 2016
octavecatThanks, that helps :)
U-3CKeep in mind that Dragonfly Red does not have an internal battery (none of the products in that family do), so it will still need to take the power from the smartphone. There is no way around that. So in that sense it doesn't really have an advantage over Slim and on top of that it has less output power. And also, as you correctly pointed out it costs twice as much as Slim. Sounds to me like Slim is a better deal overall.
battman
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Sep 8, 2016
CEntrancelol i respect the shameless self promotion
U-3C
68
Sep 8, 2016
battmanNothing wrong with that. You are also free to bash on the product however you want if you hate it. ; )
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
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