CEntrance DACport USB 96/24 Headphone Amp Audiophile Audition
Listening Comparisons
The other headphone outs which I had around were first of all my AKG headphone amp - designed signally for the high output required for the K-1000 headphones, the headphone jacks in both my Sunfire AV preamp and my new iMac, my Benchmark DAC1 headphone amp connected to my gas main audio system, a Boosteroo multi-headphone battery amp, and Headroom’s battery-powered Total BitHead handy. My sources were MP3 files in my iTunes on the iMac, standard CDs played on the iMac, some xrcd and K2HD CDs, 88.2 FLAC audio files of an M*A piano album, and several 96K/24bit exemplary DVD-Rs from the HDTT label. (I should reveal that I don’t own an iPod, iPad or iPhone and don’t intend to.)
I should also reveal that for me nothing equals the fidelity of the now-discontinued K-1000 phones with their strapping dedicated amp, although I haven’t sampled any of the latest ultimate headphones from makers such as Grado, Stax and Ultrasone. I imagine we can also drop the built-in Sunfire headphone amp and the Boosteroo from the equation. (In fact the latter had terrible distortion, and forget Dolby Headphone on the Sunfire, which sounds lousy.) The HeadRoom - which is either analog or USB input - provided some enhancement from my portable CD player, but nothing noticeable when being fed the analog signal from the new iMac in balancing to simply plugging my Grados directly into the iMac. (I don’t recall the headphone output was such good quality on my before iMac.) However, when using the USB input on the BitHead - same as the DACport - there was a definite increase in clarity and detail, but not to the level of the DACport. The DACport had a cleaner and more focused comprehensive quality. This was on the
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