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iFi Hip-dac Portable Balanced DAC Headphone Amplifier for Android, iPhone with USB Input Only/Outputs: 3.5mm Unbalanced / 4.4mm Balanced (Unit only)

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Features

  • PORTABLE DESIGN - Your music will never stop with up to 6 hrs of battery life and a slim, lightweight design perfect for carrying in your pocket wherever life takes you
  • HIGH RESOLUTION AUDIO - From Spotify to Tidal MQA to MP3 and beyond, play any high res audio format with native digital to analog conversion so you can listen to any song the way the original recording was intended
  • POWERFUL AMPLIFIER - Suited to your style, listen to in ear monitors or drive over the ear headphones with 400 mW max power output from the on-board amplifier
  • EASY CONNECTIVITY Connects directly to your smartphone with the USB Input, and works with balanced 4.4mm or S-Bal 3.5mm headphone plugs for ultimate convenience and versatility
  • HIGH TECH Power Match and XBass offer adjustable analog enhancements to customize your listening experience without compromising the digital conversion

Product Dimensions: 4.02 x 2.76 x 0.55 inches


Item Weight: 8 ounces


Manufacturer: Abbingdon Music Research


Item model number: hip-dac


Batteries: 1 Lithium Polymer batteries required. (included)


Date First Available: January 27, 2020


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  • Warm but oh so detailed. Intoxicating. Even gets me out of bed just to play music!
I love this little gem! It works well with both my iPhone 12 Pro Max and my iPad Pro 2019 version. Bought the Apple CCK to lightning and the ifi USB -C connector to female USB-A connector at the same time as I bought the hipdac. The connections are quite secure on both and the sound is absolutely top notch. I have used and tested Tidal, Qobuz, Amazon HD, and Apple Music. All worked wonderfully with the appropriate colors showing up on either side of the ifi hipdac’s volume which is wonderful to the touch. Two caveats, The volume knob can be quite sensitive, especially in a pocket. I use a hair tie to hold the hipdac to the back of my iPhone case and this seems to eliminate the issue but just be forewarned. The other is there is only a slight difference between the color Green which covers PCM up to 24/96, and Yellow which is PCM 24/192 and above. Just a very small difference and if you try you can see a slight dimming which I suppose is Yellow. MQA does light up Magenta as it should. More about the sound. I’ve used three headphones with the hipdac so far; Oppo PM-3, Beyer Dt-990 Pro (250 ohms), and my favorites, the small $75 emu purpleheart wood cans from Drop. I have a balanced 4.4 mm cable on the way to use with my reference open back Senn HD600s, I’ll update on that later. First of all this little jewel has a lot of power. It drove the Beyers to insane levels, albeit with the high gain switch deployed. And it was quite a joy to utilize the bass boost as well, but only on certain songs as it could bloat quickly if there was too much bass in the original mix. But useful nonetheless. With the Oppos I had to use the ifi ematch+, which I already had on hand, to get the best results. High gain and occasionally the bass boost, helped me really enjoy the PM-3s a great deal and at the moment this is my favorite pairing while stationary. But I move around the house a good deal and here is where the little emus are outstanding. For the last 4 years, though I own too many headphones, I have relied on the emus and two LG V20s, in airplane mode with WiFi reengaged, running UAPP to play music from Tidal and Qobuz. Alas, my V20s both started to reboot quite regularly whilst playing music. As they are both four years old and T-Mobile hasn’t updated Android in over two years, I finally gave up the ghost. Sooo, I had to resort to my iPhone for mobility. Hence the purchase of the hipdac. Sometimes things really do seem to work out. On low gain at about half volume the sound from the emus is outstanding! I never knew the emus could be so detailed. Highs and lows sound far better than I would imagine from past experience. Anyways, I am one happy camper these days. And the hipdac even makes lossy music sound good. I use the Live Music app to access the Grateful Dead’s concerts and more from Archive.org. Listening to Matrix recordings the music does not sound compressed at all. Frankly I am stunned at the quality. I have over 2 TBs of legally downloaded music that I have accumulated over the last twenty years but who wants to pay the premium for larger storage on a new iPad when this DAC/amp streaming from the iPhone sounds just as good as the 24/96 downloaded files playing through the Onkyo HiFi player even as good as that app is. Sound in one word, impeccable! I’ve seen some folks complain about battery life, but I have not any issue with the hipdac in this respect. Now I’m not trying to play music for 8 hours at a time, though I respect those who try to do so during a full work day. I usually max out at 3 hours, then place the hipdac in standby, and come back for another 2-3 hours later on, and then finally another 1-2 hours before bedtime. So 6-8 hours of usage a day with roughly 2 standby periods in between, and I’ve never seen anything but green on the battery indicator at the rear of the unit. It takes about 2 and a half hours to charge to white and then for the light to turn off. In summary, this little hipdac floats my boat. As someone who plays in both the shallow end and the deep end in the pool of headphones I couldn’t be any happier. I have tried other dongles that did okay including one that did MQA. But this piece of kit is a home run IMHO! Highly recommended! UPDATE: 7/10 Received balanced cables to use with Senn HD 600s and Meze 99 Classics. The Sennheiser cable upgraded the 600s to the point of quite enjoyable listening on the go. For well recorded music in Hi-Rez this is a wonderful pairing and let’s the HipDac really shine. It was the Meze cable that turned my world upside down. I’ve always liked the 99 Classics but would more than occasionally find them bloated on the low end. Not any more! Using Meze’s own balanced cable with the HipDac took the 99s to levels of incredible clarity with deep taut bass that I wouldn’t have imagined from past use. Love, love, love this combo with both the iPhone 12 Pro Max and the iPad Pro 2019 version. As the Meze’s I have are beautiful to look at, as well as touch, having their sound elevated to beyond reference level is a blessing. With the Meze 99 Classics, HipDac , balanced cable, and USB connector, you’ll spend around $700. But if you want beautiful music from your phone or tablet, this combo will keep a smile on your face! ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on June 23, 2021 by Cosmo Schrugg

  • IFI Stylish little Box that delivers great sound!
Great sound and cool design … Used with my Sennheiser Momentum III in wired mode and results were impressive. Used with both Tidal Premium (Master) and with new Apple Music Lossless … Truly impressed with the improvement over direct wired connection or wireless connection to my IPhone or IPad. You will need a data cable to connect IFI with you IOS device… The profusion of cables will require you have some support to Handel your iPhone while listening. IFI works as a DAC and as an Headphone amplifier and it provides great quality of sound where you can listen to different instruments properly even a lower volumes. Improves the bass range giving warmth to sound. Sennheiser MIII in wireless mode provides great sound quality but was not as good in wired where it depended solely on IPhone /IPad digital to analog conversion alone … So IFI came handy and actually improved overall quality leaps and Bounds. Regarding the source - in most cases I found that the lossless audio from Apple Music provides a better experience than Tidal. Apple Digital Masters knocks the socks off from Tidal Masters and regular Apple Lossless sound as good or better than hi-fi TIDAL. So if you already have AppleMusic just select the new audio format in music configuration and remember to remove your previous downloads as if they where done in in previous formats you will not enjoy the better quality of the lossless formats. Only downside of of IFI is duration of the battery (decent bit could be better) and the complete the complete lack of indication of its level … It is a downer when you cannot listen to your music with improved quality that IFI provides while you awaits for charging. Except from that - It’s life changing to be able to listen to your favorite tunes with this kind of quality. A Great Buy! ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on July 10, 2021 by Karl Winstrong Coelho

  • Amazing Sound and Build, Some Minor Annoyances
I currently use the iFi Zen amp/DAC combo for my desk setup and absolutely love the thing, so when I saw the reviews for the Hip DAC I couldn't resist. The most important thing you need to know is that this has the same Burr Brown chipset and most of the same guts as the full-sized iFi Zen DAC and sounds exactly the same, which is freaking amazing. The fact that it also has a gain, bass boost, MQA compatibility, 3.5mm unbalanced AND 4.4mm balanced outputs is insane considering the thing's size and price. If I could end the review here, this would be a five-star product easy. ...But there are a couple of things that could be improved. First of all, the full-size inset male USB-A input, which is the only input this thing has, is just baffling. For iphone users it means spending another $30 on a goofy dongle, but for any user it means you've got a big awkward cable hanging out the ass end of the Hip DAC which ruins its pocketability (check the pictures). Why can't it be USB-C? Or 3.5mm? There is actually a USB-C port on the back, but that's only for charging. Also, while it is wicked awesome that the Hip DAC can fully decode MQA, it seems to have some issues doing it. Particularly, I've noticed that the Hip DAC tends to cut off the first half-second of each track, which gets really annoying. I know some other MQA-decodable DACs also have this problem, so it might be on the software side, but the Zen-DAC doesn't have this problem, so who knows. MQA is still pretty new and clearly there are kinks to be ironed out. If you don't listen to a lot of MQA, I would definitely still recommend this guy. The sound quality is seriously phenomenal. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on April 23, 2021 by Reynoldbot Reynoldbot

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