Rhodium is our brand new mobile first DAC. Designed for extreme portability, type C connectivity, and stunning performance. All at a great, low price (oh, for those wondering, yes if you have a mic input Rhodium will handle that for you, too - you can use it with any wired headphone and not lose any functionality).
Rhodium may look "normal" but it is far from it! Based on the latest Realtek USB DAC (featuring a full 32 bit and 384 kHz DAC and interface), Rhodium uses a lot of exclusive changes and reworks you'll only find in our Periodic version.
For starters, we've re-worked the entire grounding scheme. The result is a significant reduction in distortion. Fully 10 dB lower than other offerings costing twice as much (or more).
We also changed/spec'd every cap in the system, including C0G grade caps in the audio paths and X7R for all the power supplies (Murata caps, exclusively). Lower noise, lower THD, better stability over temperature and output level is the result.
And about that output level - there's a ton of voltage here! In fact, we have over twice the output signal as other audiophile offerings. That means 4 times the power - and a lot more dynamics in your music as well as the ability to drive larger, inefficient cans.
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