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    You’d be surprised. Good quality compact DACs are very expensive unless the manufacturer engineers a better version.

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      Are they though?

      This isn’t the 90’s. All it needs to do us produce an analog stream.

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        It depends entirely on the quality of the drivers in the headphones and the listener. Portable USB DACs for audiophiles run upwards of $200.