DRAGONFLY COBALT VS RED FREE

AudioQuest believes that today’s digital devices should evolve as the technology itself evolves, thereby delivering musical pleasure for many years to come. In today’s fast-paced digital world, longevity in a hi-fi component is increasingly rare-at any price.

DRAGONFLY COBALT VS RED FREE

FIRMWARE UPGRADEABLEĭragonFlys Black, Red, and Cobalt are firmware upgradeable via our free Desktop Device Manager. 200 from B&H The AudioQuest DragonFly Red is our pick for laptop use. The 2.1-volt output makes Cobalt and Red compatible with a wide range of headphones, including power-hungry, low-efficiency models. This solution ensures maximum fidelity, thrilling dynamic contrast, and an excellent signal-to-noise ratio.

BIT-PERFECT VOLUME CONTROL AND 2.1-VOLT OUTPUTĬobalt features the same ESS Sabre 9601 headphone amp and bit-perfect volume control that give DragonFly Red its unique combination of power and grip over the music. Successfully combating this noise is absolutely crucial to the preservation of the lowest-level musical details, particularly when it comes to high-res audio-and especially when applied to a portable-audio device such as DragonFly. In Cobalt, we’ve taken what we’ve learned from our recent research and development in noise dissipation to employ power-supply filtering specifically designed to dramatically reduce the increasingly prevalent noise from WiFi, Bluetooth, and cellular signals. While the chips used in DragonFlys Black and Red are unbeatable for the price, the minimum-phase slow roll-off filter in the 9038 results in naturally expressive sound that is always emotionally engaging and never fatiguing-a beautiful combination of warmth and detail that we find equally exciting and soothing. WHY THE “SLOW ROLL…?”Ĭobalt employs ESS’s new flagship ES9038Q2M DAC chip. Streamlength and monoClock are registered trademarks of Wavelength Audio, ltd. This superior clock enables DragonFly Cobalt to provide greater resolution and clarity than DACs with multiple clocks. The higher output gives effortless dynamics, a powerful bass. If you use larger headphones, with more powerful magnets, such as the Grado range or larger Beyers/Sennheisers/AKGs, then this USB DAC model is ideal. Further, in Gordon’s monoClock ® technology, a single ultra-low-jitter clock generated from the ESS ES9038Q2M DAC chip runs the ESS chip functions as well as all microcontroller functions. Just like the award-winning DragonFly Red, the Cobalt benefits from a powerful 2.1 volt output. Like all previous DragonFly models, Cobalt uses Gordon Rankin’s precedent-setting StreamLength ® asynchronous-transfer USB code. AUDIOQUEST, GORDON RANKIN: A BEAUTIFUL PARTNERSHIP

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