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
It seems that THX is on the box to indicate some sort of very low noise floor, so it would be nice to know more about that. I just see a bunch of marketing speak, and normally these days, high end 2 channel amps are not made with regard to THX specs because they far surpass them, and THX is really just minimal baseline.
Hopefully this product brings something new to the market, or just plain great sound would be nice. There seems to not be any way to know as of yet...
Most importantly, they had a working amp at their table. I was surprised at the sound... very open and transparent character, with a very black background and agile response, good impact like when I upgraded to giant capacitors in an old tube amp earlier in my head-fi days. I doubt it will beat TOTL offerings, but I bet first owners will find it punching above it’s price and size peers.
Just sharing what I heard. THX was looking to license their amp design, guess they partnered with Massdrop, though that would explain why Monoprice has a different but also THX amp on the way. The THX amps can actually be implimented small enough to be put into portables too, but maybe not this 789 model.