Little headphone amp/DAC units are all the rage at the moment, and for good reason - if you’ve ever plugged your headphones straight into a laptop or smartphone (always assuming your smartphone has a headphone socket in the first place), you’ll know why. The digital-to-analogue conversion process is crucial to your listening pleasure, and computers are rubbish at it.
iFi understands this, and has built a solid reputation based on getting the best DACs done properly at a reasonable price. With the Uno, though, it wants to replace ‘reasonable’ with ‘bargain’ and bring proper desktop audio to as wide an audience as possible. Can it be done for such little outlay?
