![]() It perfectly captures the absurd heights we must rise to in the face of impending doom.ĭay 4 DAY 4 of #MGSQUARANTINE Another desktop-worthy piece by the great I always loved how the Metal Gear Solid games felt enormous, yet intimate. GGYJi0OyMu - Jordan Vogt-Roberts May 13, 2020ĭay 3 DAY 3 of #MGSQUARANTINE Another iconic moment brought to life in collaboration with the masters at This gorgeous piece was done by another KONG alum, Stephen Todd. Industrial Light & Magic + Metal Gear Solid is true nerd heaven. Made by a British company.DAY 2 of #MGSQUARANTINE I had the honor of reuniting with my KONG family at The dream team of Jeff White, Luis Carrasco & Ben Grangereau beautifully explored poetic military surrealism. ![]() On the rare occasion I feel the need to EQ, I use Wavelet, so don’t feel I’m missing out on anything. Please note, it doesn’t have a companion app with lots of configurable settings, eqs etc, but I like things that just work without having to fiddle with them. ![]() It looks and feels premium, and I love the volume dial. I tend to push my headphones, but I still find I get > 8 hours playback on a single charge. Is it as good as a decent desktop amp? Hell no, but it’s the best Bluetooth experience I’ve had to date, and it is certainly good enough to be very enjoyable. OK, it won’t drive the T50RPs, but they are extremely inefficient. It can drive most of my headphones through the balaced outpu including Sundara, HD 560s, Hd58x, Akg k702. I use this a both to enable portability when I’m at home, and to drive IEMs when I’m out (Fiio FH5). On paper the iFi Go Blu looked to be the best in terms of raw performance, and in reality it does not dissapoint. I looked at everything currently available including the UP5, ES100, BTR5, etc. To ensure signal strength suits the sensitivity of the connected headphones or earphones, auto-gain adjusts output up or down by 6dB. The amp stage delivers up to 5.6V (twice the voltage of others) – considerably more power than other similarly sized devices – handling even relatively tough headphone loads with ease. The amp circuitry benefits from symmetrical twin-mono signal paths and utilises iFi’s Direct Drive design concept – direct-coupled to ensure a clean signal path without distortion-inducing output coupling capacitors. This is coupled with a customised digital filter to minimise pre-echoes and ringing artefacts, and a precision clock system to ensure ultra-low jitter, thus reducing errors and distortion in the digital audio signal. This then feeds the DAC stage with a Cirrus Logic 32-bit DAC chip at its heart. The Bluetooth stage makes full use of Qualcomm’s latest four-core QCC5100 Bluetooth chip and supports every current high definition format. ![]() Others just don’t this level of execution. Uniquely for a device of this type and size, the GO blu’s clever design packs in separate Bluetooth + DAC + Amp stages, each engineered in distinct blocks to deliver the ideal combination of cutting-edge specification and superb sound. These are simple and cost-effective, but they cannot compare with expertly designed, individually optimised circuit stages when it comes to sound quality. Most pocket-size Bluetooth DAC/headphone amps incorporate all-in-one ‘system on a chip’ solutions to deliver input processing, digital-to-analogue signal conversion and amplification. ![]()
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