Peachtree Audio Shift Portable USB DAC/Amp

Ranked “among the most listenable and vivid headphone amps” by Wired, with “build quality and features [that] hit the mark,” the new Peachtree Audio Shift offers an immersive audio experience at home or on the go, and doubles as a battery pack you can use to charge your phone. About the size of a deck of cards and weighing only 6 ounces, it’s sturdy enough to hold up to the daily commute and sure to give your music a serious boost.

Made of solid aluminum and lined on the top and bottom with genuine leather, the Shift is a durable, reliable travel companion with a built-in battery pack for up to eight hours of playback on a single charge. Its ESS Sabre32 DAC is equipped with a hyperstream modulator and jitter eliminator for natural, lifelike sound, and the ES9010K2M chip supports sample rates of up to 32 bit/384 kHz, plus DSD sources up to 5.6 MHz.

The Shift’s low-noise amplifier has enough juice to drive everything from sensitive in-ear monitors to demanding over-the-ear designs. Pair it with your smartphone or iPod Touch, or hook it up to your PC when you’re back at your desk. The switchable fixed level output also allows you to connect directly to your desktop speakers or hi-fi system, for use as a preamp with a 103 dB signal-to-noise ratio.