Shanling UA5 review: top mobile DAC with built-in battery

► Shanling UA5 review: top mobile DAC with built-in battery.
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When choosing a DAC for a smartphone, we have exactly two options: mobile and portable solutions. The first ones are just super compact, but they are powered by a source battery, while the second ones, although they have their own battery, are so large and heavy that it is not very inconvenient to use them with a phone. That was the case until recently. Today I propose to talk about the first mobile DAC with a built-in battery. Moreover, it can work both using its internal power supply, and consuming the energy of a smartphone. At your choice. Of the features, I also note a 1.44 inch OLED display, two full-fledged ESS ES9038Q2M converters, an amplifying part on two Ricore RE6863, maximum values for PCM and DSD formats and an output power equal to 211 mW at 32 ohms of load. Plus, there are many different settings, the ability to update the firmware, a convenient control wheel and, quite surprisingly, the ability to output a digital signal via SPDIF. The DAC is charged, as you know, to the maximum. There is something to talk about.