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iFi Go Blu

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DAC | £199 | whf.cm/iFiGoBlu

UK outfit iFi has carved a niche for itself by fashioning mostly small, always likeable, sometimes hipflask-shaped aids for your in-transit or on-desk sound.

The iFi Go Blu DAC/headphone amp offers a Bluetooth 5.1 connection to your source device (although not to your headphones, those still need to be wired into the unit) thus eliminating one wire from the potentially bulky, tangled equation of phone, to DAC, to headphones.

With its £199 price-tag and novel wireless capabilities, there’s not a lot of 2019 Award-winning Audiolab M-DAC Nano (£149) is one fine example, albeit sporting slightly older Bluetooth 4.2.

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