AudioQuest Dragonfly Cobalt DAC USB

The AudioQuest DragonFly Cobalt has been developed in partnership with Gordon Rankin and Microchip Technologies. It has a better signal to noise ratio and a much lower power consumption than the original DragonFly. It consists of Gordon’s monoClock single ultra-low-jitter clock. Thanks to the new Microchip PIC32MX274 microcontroller the processing speed increases by 33%. This makes it perfect to play music at all kinds of resolution including MQA and from any music streaming app of your choice. The DragonFly Cobalt has an output of 2.1 voltsenough power to successfully drive all preamplifier input circuits and a wide range of todayas efficient headphones. Its improved power supply filtering specifically reduces the noise of WiFi Bluetooth and cellular signals. It comes with a 32-bit ESS ES9038Q2M DAC chip that employs minimum-phase slow roll-off filtering for naturally detailed more authentic sound. The ESS Sabre 9601 headphone amp and bit-perfect digital volume control add that much-needed power. You can use the source device’s volume controls to adjust the DragonFly Cobalt’s volume.