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Shanling UA5 Portable Balanced Hi-Res USB-C DAC & Headphone Amp£149.99
The Shanling UA5 is a high performance portable DAC and headphone amplifier. Its digital/analog conversion stage is based on a pair of ESS ES9038Q2M DACs, allowing it to efficiently decode the audio stream, ensuring highly accurate sound reproduction. This architecture also allows it to read high resolution audio streams, in PCM up to 32bit 768kHz or in DSD up to DSD512.
Its amplification stage is entrusted to a Ricore RE6863 chip.