It's Record Store Day on Saturday 20 April, and to mark it iFi has released two brand new products to make your new purchases sound even more amazing. The ZEN DAC 3 is the latest member of the firm's DAC family, while the ZEN Phono 3 is a brand new phono stage designed to eliminate pitch changes from slightly warped records without losing that all-important low end.
The ZEN DAC 3 isn't just for vinyl, of course: like any DAC it can improve audio in gaming, movie watching and digital music too. This model has two 4.4mm balanced outputs, one for headphones and one for connecting to other high-end hi-fi hardware, and PCM and DXD audio data is supported up to 24-bit/384kHz, alongside DSD sampling rates from 2.8MHz to 12.4MHz (DSD256) and full MQA decoding for the likes of TIDAL Masters.
