There was nothing wishy washy about the cymbal taps on this track. Treble performance was notable by its fragility but also confidence. I then switchd to the Meze 12 earphones and was similarly impressed by the tonal balance here on Sonny Rollins’ St. To the right of that is a toggle switch to move the unit from Earmen DAC mode to pre-amp mode and back again. So why do we only get one USB-C cable then? The included – cheap as chips – cable must have cost all of a fraction of a penny to include so why the micro-penny pinching? If you do buy a second cable, keep the freebie as the charging unit and buy a third-party audiophile cable to enhance sound. To the right of that is another USB-C socket which acts as an input for a laptop, phone, tablet and the like. The socket on the far left handles charging. When the amplifier’s battery dips below 20% the LED will flash red.Īround the rear are two USB-C sockets. It will flash blue when charging (and the TR-Amp can play music and charge at the same time, incidentally). To the immediate right of the 3.5mm socket is a small LED light which shines white when on and then cycles though various colours depending upon the type of digital file being played: green for PCM, magenta for MQA and cyan for DSD. You add a convertor to the end of your headphone cable and you’re also asking the sound signal to jump yet another fence before it gets to your ears. Secondly, using a converter is not good for sound quality, as I found during a series of A-B tests. Firstly, because of sheer convenience – if you’re using a pair of headphones of one size, you don’t always have a convertor available to move to another socket size.
#EARMAN DAC PORTABLE#
I really don’t know why this feature isn’t standard on all portable headphone amplifiers. Another welcome feature and one that deserves special note. To the left of that are two headphone sockets: 3.5mm and 6.35mm. The front of the Earmen chassis offers a large silver, metal volume knob that doubles as a power switch. In this case it’s a 3700mA battery with up for 10 hour running time. I find such filters more trouble than they’re worth.Īll of that action needs a decent battery.
It does not offer user-definable filter settings (or as I prefer to term them – tone controls) which I applaud and which pleases me no end.
#EARMAN DAC PLUS#
The Earmen TR-Amp uses an ES9038Q2M Sabre DAC which runs up to 32bit/384kHz in PCM mode or DSD128 in native mode plus MQA native hardware rendering.
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