Offering a significant upgrade over computer sound quality in an era where people need it most, the Zen DAC V2 is another feather in the cap for iFi’s budget Zen series. At the other end is another Pentaconn balanced output, which sits alongside the more conventional 6.3mm socket.
#Zen for 2k plus#
This budget DAC, which can be USB or mains powered (though a mains adapter doesn’t come in the box), is excellent in both the features and performance department for the money.Īt one end is a USB Type B input, plus RCA line-level and 4.4mm Pentaconn balanced outputs. The output of the Zen DAC can be switched between fixed and variable, meaning the iFi can operate as a digital preamp if you so wish. They pay off, as the DAC's current What Hi-Fi? Award-winning status demonstrates. It’s what iFi has done with its budget home DAC and headphone amp offering, with the original Zen DAC now making way for a ‘V2’ model that offers improvements in terms of processing, MQA decoding and circuitry. But at the same time we realise that in a competitive industry such as hi-fi, making the best even better off your own back isn’t necessarily a bad idea. The ‘if it ain’t broke…’ saying isn’t lost on us.
#Zen for 2k portable#
The very best DACs, such as those listed below, will make your hi-fi, desktop or portable audio system sing, but something sub-optimal – or sticking to the ones used in regular do-it-all components like those mentioned above – will prevent you from getting the most out of your set-up. So they play an instrumental part in making digital music worthwhile. Indeed, without a DAC your digital music collection is nothing but a sizeable collection of “0s and 1s” that makes sense only within the digital domain. See all the best Prime Day deals right now.(Essentially, if a digital device has a headphone jack or another audio output, know that it has a DAC built-in.) Any device that delivers digital sound – be it a laptop, games console, portable music player or phone – requires a DAC to convert its digital audio to an analogue signal before it can be output to speakers, headphones or another analogue device. Side note: I also once went on a 100+ game streak on the 1v1 court with a pure green 6'6 SG and the game chat reactions only added to the addiction.You might not realise it, but most of us make use of at least one digital-to-analogue converter (DAC) every single day. But that is my honest experience with it. I think I got Wade the 2nd day it was possible.Īgain, I no longer use the Zen or even own one. The grind for Wade was SUPER fucking easy with it as well. I got a rush from knowing it didn't matter what you did and that I could win even if I was down big or trying new cards. I used to post on r/MyTeam during that season about how good I was basically posting my GO league records and they were like 120-2 and stuff like that (this is not the reddit account I used but the name was similar) A non-zen user has 100% no chance to win. I had no issues winning without it.īut that said. But I would call myself (without a zen) a really really good 2k player.
I will say that in the hands of a bad player, the Zen isn't worth the money. I now have a PS5, but when I had a PS4, I used a Zen for the entirety of Season 3 (or whatever was D-Wade's season)Īt first I bought it out of curiosity, and was not planning to keep it (as the resale value was higher than the retail at which I paid) so i figured why not. but here is my 100% honest experience with the Cronus Zen.ĭISCLAIMER - I have sold it and not used one since December
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