Digital Director
MORE PEOPLE are listening to more diverse high-resolution audio formats through higher-quality headphones than ever before. But ideas about how to feed those headphones vary. The headphone amplifier/digital-to-analog converter, a popular hybrid product, is among the most tireless shape-shifters on the audio scene. I’ve reviewed Amp/DACs as compact as a USB stick and as big as a full-size rack component. At about 4 x 1.5 x 4 inches (WxHxD), Pro-Ject’s Pre Box S2 Digital falls somewhere in between. You wouldn’t carry it in a pocket, but it doesn’t take up much space on a busy desk.
FEATURES AND SETUP
You might know Pro-Ject as a purveyor of affordable turntables and other phono gear. But the 27-year-old Austrian company, distributed in North America by Sumiko, also offers what it calls the Box Designs line, which includes DACs, power amps, headphone amps,
