Audiolab M-DAC nano

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Portable DAC | £149 | whf.cm/M-DACnano

If you want to improve the sound of your phone or laptop, there aren’t many options. Until now, our recommendation would have been a portable USB DAC such as Cyrus’s Soundkey (£79) or the Audioquest Dragonfly Red (£169).

These are excellent devices and do their job brilliantly for the money, but they’re not ideal for truly portable use. Both need an extra lead to work from a phone, meaning that you have