AUDIOQUEST DRAGONFLY BLACK DAC

DragonFly - USB Digital-Audio Converter

Beautiful Sound
... From Any Computer

Plays All Music Files: MP3 to
24-bit/192kHz
Drives Headphones Directly
Variable Output Drives Powered Speakers or Power Amp
Fixed Output Feeds Preamp or Receiver
Asynchronous Transfer Ensures Digital Timing Integrity
Two Clocks Enable Perfect Native Resolution at 44.1kHz, 48kHz, 88.2kHz and
96kHz

DragonFly is an affordable and easy-to-use device
that delivers far superior sound by bypassing the poor quality sound card that
is built into your computer. DragonFly is a sleek, flash drive sized
Digital-Audio Converter that connects to a USB jack on a Mac® or
Windows® PC, turning any computer into a true high- fidelity music
source.

Whether you're on the go or at home, listening on ear
buds or connecting your computer to a stereo system, DragonFly reveals all the
emotional expression and nuance that makes your favorite music, or movies, so
enjoyable. However you connect it, DragonFly simply and easily makes any
computer sound better.

How DragonFly Does It

The heart
of DragonFly is the 24-bit ESS SabreTM conversion chip, a
high-performance solution that's typically found in better CD and Blu-ray
DiscTM players. DragonFly can accept audio and music files ranging
from MP3s and CD-standard 16-bit/44kHz to native 24-bit/96kHz high-resolution,
regardless of music file format. If your computer's software can
recognize and play a format, DragonFly will make it sound its
best.

However, high-quality digital-audio conversion alone
isn't why DragonFly sounds great. How the audio data is transferred from
the computer to DragonFly required particular attention from DragonFly's
design team. Remember that digital audio is stored on computers and delivered to
DragonFly as streams of 1's and 0's. Making beautiful music out of
1's and 0's isn't a case of simply getting all the music
data from point A to Point B. Maintaining subtle digital timing relationships is
crucial in order to be able to reconstruct the analog waveform that we hear as
dialog or music.

Timing errors have long been the plague of digital
audio playback, never more so than in recent years as computers have been
pressed into service as audio source components. DragonFly uses a very
sophisticated "asynchronous*" USB audio data transfer protocol. Rather
than sharing crucial audio "data clocking" functions with the
computer, DragonFly alone commands the timing of the audio data transfer,
dramatically reducing digital timing errors. In addition, not all audio content
is encoded at the same native resolution or "sample rate. " DragonFly
uses two discrete onboard "clocks" so that the math algorithms used to
convert the digital audio data to analog are always optimized for the native
sample rate of the audio file or stream being played. This ensures the least
amount of mathematical manipulation to the native audio data, which results in
fewer errors and better sound. A smart LED indicator on DragonFly shows the
resolution of the incoming signal.

While the digital domain is where
your computer- based music experience starts, the analog domain requires
attention too. Digital volume controls too often reduce signal resolution and
decrease sound quality. Even when the iTunes volume slider is used,
DragonFly's high-resolution analog volume control carries out the
instructions in the analog domain for the best sound quality. And
DragonFly's analog circuits are direct-coupled from the ESS converter
chip's output, avoiding the need for any extraneous, sonically degrading
components in the signal path.

All of these refinements allow
DragonFly to make music with a natural solidity and clarity that is dramatically
superior to the sound you would hear from your computer on its
own.

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