You might think it’s pricey, and I wouldn’t argue with you there, but everything’s relative Astell & Kern’s SE200 is $1,799 (but hey, it lets you switch between two different integrated DACs based on your listening preferences because they sound different, right?). (125 g), and was priced at $299.99 when unveiled at the 2018 Consumer Electronics Show. Pioneer’s XDP-02U (known as the XDP-20 in Japan) comes in three colors (dark blue for mine, shown below, as well as pink and white), has dimensions of 2.5″×3.9″×0.6″ (64.5×98.2×16 mm), weighs 4.41 oz. My choice, as is often the case, entered my life via a gift-receiving opportunity, specifically (this time) my birthday and courtesy of my wife.
Plus, by going with a fully solid-state alternative, I might even be able to reliably use it when truly mobile (i.e. I’ve long used legacy iPod Classics to store my voluminous music library for in-car playback purposes, but the combination of an embedded battery and a 1.8″ HDD made their sooner-or-later demise a matter of when, not if, and getting inside of them to swap out whatever had expired was not exactly easy.
After having tried out (reasonably) cost-effective high-quality headphones, along with computer-connected DACs and amplifiers for them, I thought it might be interesting to also pair the former with a relatively inexpensive and (claimed) premium mobile DAP (digital audio player).
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