I have hearing damage so before anyone tells me I should be using ultra high bit rate lossless DSD, FLAC, or that MQA snake oil, chill out. ![]() Either way, it’s as clean sounding as my Modi 3 with respect to USB noise.Īll my music is presently through Spotify Premium and downloaded so there’s no issue with streaming quality or network interruptions. I’m pleased to report zero USB noise issues, which tells me that either my docking hub is pretty decent quality, that AQ took special care to address USB noise, or some combination of the two. I would easily knock $100 off the price just because of this.īecause I am an iPhone user, I did not use the Cobalt in a mobile fashion but only at my desk, plugged into my 1 st generation Microsoft SurfaceBook via the SurfaceHub. 1/5 for accessories, packaging, and unboxing experience. The Cobalt should have come with a full leather or high-quality nylon case that could hold not only the DAC, but the cable(s) as well. Additionally, you don’t store a $300 DAC that’s incredibly easy to misplace in a sleeve that makes it harder to find (it’s black) and frankly looks horrible. I’ve gotten some off of Amazon for $10 that function perfectly and are dead quiet in terms of sound interference or coloration (if your cable colors the sound, you have a bad cable more than likely). One of the reasons I bought my Fiio Q1Mk2 (my currently wired mobile solution) was because it came with the Lightning-micro USB cable something frankly few OEMs are offering. The ratio of Android to iPhone users is roughly 50/50 and to not include an appropriate Lightning-to-USB cable is simply an oversight that has no excuse. Inside, you find an equally crappy plastic tray with the user manual, the “Dragontail” USB-C to USB-A cable, the Cobalt itself which is reminiscent of a thumb drive, and an absurd little leather sleeve to keep the Cobalt in when you’re not using it. The Cobalt comes in a flimsy cardboard box, like what you would get a really bad Chi-Fi IEM in. Out of the box I was unamused and frankly disappointed. Does the Cobalt’s performance match the price? We shall see… ![]() Let me first say that this is a $300 DAC, and when you’re in that mid-fi price range, there are certain expectations, especially when the product comes from a company such as Audioquest which has made a name for itself in the cable market with their “unique” products. I’m part of the Todd The Vinyl Junkie’s loaner tour for this product, and this is the first Dragonfly family product and first AQ product in general I have had the opportunity to experience. Today I’m reviewing not a headphone but a DAC, specifically the Audioquest Dragonfly Cobalt v1.0. ![]() So, clearly the problem is with Foobar.Hello everyone, and welcome back! It’s been a very long time since I posted anything, nearly a year actually buuuuut…I’m back! A lot just happened over the past year between career changes, school, moving, and well, life. As an experiment, I installed Audirvana on my laptop just to test, and Audirvana does automatically change the sampling rate of the file being played through the Dragonfly. I tried installing both the WASAPI and ASIO components in Foobar, but this did not change anything. When I use Foobar, the color stays with the sampling rate that I have to manually set via the windows setting for the output device (for example, if I set the sample rate to 44 khz via the windows settings, the dragonfly will remain green regardless of the sample rate of the file I am playing on foobar). The Dragonfly LED color should change according the sampling rate of the file being played. The problem I am having is that Foobar does not automatically select the sampling rate of the file being played. ![]() I'm using the Dragonfly Cobalt DAC with Foobar.
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