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iFi xDSD

£399

As well as enhancing your smartphone's sound, portable DACs can boost your laptop’s performance away from a mains outlet, or be quickly and conveniently swapped into a hi-fi set-up. Thanks in part to its extensive file support, iFi's neat-looking and solidly constructed xDSD laps up all of the above.

Via its USB input, the xDSD can play PCM files up to 768kHz, and support for DSD goes all the way up to DSD512. Through

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