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Sharkoon Mobile DAC, Mobile DAC PD & Gaming DAC Pro S

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Sharkoon expands their product lineup with three DACs with integrated headphone amplifiers. Two are meant for mobile devices, such as smartphones and laptops, and one is a simple USB sound card. They share many characteristics, but the most important is a good price-performance ratio.

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Planning to get these once they show up in the US.
 
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The modest mobile DAC looks like a great addition for my phone!! :eek:
 
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Hi, could you confirm if the mobile DAC PD also uses the BES3100 DAC chip?
 
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I got the Gaming DAC Pro S. Super happy with it!:)
 
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The hiss with low-impedance headphones is the one problem I have with Creative's Sound Blaster Play! 3, which otherwise is a similar handy USB sound card. It works fine for headphones with inline volume knobs (like the Creative H series heahpones, I have the H5 fr example), or high impedance headphones (it even has a setting for 600ohm+ headphones) but I can't use it with the Sennheiser HD590CS headphones because of the annoying hiss. It's sad to see the issue also in this product.

If you have access to a Play! 3 I wonder if a comparison of the level of hiss is possible?
 
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