{"id":131693,"date":"2021-05-31T12:47:45","date_gmt":"2021-05-31T11:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techweekmag.com\/?p=131693"},"modified":"2021-05-31T12:48:01","modified_gmt":"2021-05-31T11:48:01","slug":"hilidac-atom-2-mqa-dramatically-improves-your-smartphone-sound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/uncategorized\/hilidac-atom-2-mqa-dramatically-improves-your-smartphone-sound\/","title":{"rendered":"HIlidac Atom 2 MQA: Dramatically improves your smartphone sound"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>HIlidac<\/b>\u00a0announced a portable USB-DAC \/ headphone amp\u00a0<b>HIlidac Atom 2 MQA<\/b>\u00a0.\u00a0The novelty is offered both with a\u00a0<b>USB-C<\/b>\u00a0connector\u00a0for gadgets running\u00a0<b>Android<\/b>\u00a0, and in the\u00a0<b>Lightning<\/b>\u00a0version\u00a0for portable devices from\u00a0<b>Apple<\/b>\u00a0.\u00a0<b>The Atom 2 is<\/b>\u00a0equipped with the\u00a0<b>ES9281AC<\/b>\u00a0DAC\u00a0<b>chip<\/b>\u00a0from\u00a0<b>ESS Technology<\/b>\u00a0, which supports decoding of\u00a0<b>PCM<\/b>\u00a0streams\u00a0up to 32-bit \/ 768 kHz and DSD up to DSD512.\u00a0The novelty is made in a compact form factor with a connector built directly into the body and is offered for\u00a0<b>$ 79.99<\/b>\u00a0.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"HIlidac Atom 2 MQA Dramatically Improves Your Smartphone Sound\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/hffm6s78r5xu5rtineig27zu57mldyan.jpg\" alt=\"HIlidac Atom 2 MQA Dramatically Improves Your Smartphone Sound\" width=\"870\" height=\"580\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>Highlights of the HIlidac Atom 2 MQA Portable USB DAC \/ Headphone Amplifier:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Premium DAC chip\u00a0<b>ES9281AC<\/b>\u00a0from\u00a0<b>ESS Technology<\/b>\u00a0.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Full\u00a0<b>MQA<\/b>\u00a0decoding\u00a0.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;\u00a0<b>PCM<\/b>\u00a0decoding\u00a0up to 32 bit \/ 768 kHz.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Decoding\u00a0<b>DSD<\/b>\u00a0to\u00a0<b>DSD512<\/b>\u00a0.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Premium clock generator.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"HIlidac Atom 2 MQA Dramatically Improves Your Smartphone Sound\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/rroz3ls7kbzkxc9b0n60ud1yec5uio4x.jpg\" alt=\"HIlidac Atom 2 MQA Dramatically Improves Your Smartphone Sound\" width=\"870\" height=\"580\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Compact and lightweight.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Multi-color LED indication.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Non-linear distortion factor &#8211; 0.0004%.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Frequency response: 20 Hz &#8211; 40 kHz.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Signal to noise ratio &#8211; 118 dB.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Output type &#8211; 3.5 mm unbalanced minijack.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Output power &#8211; \u226530 mW (16 ohms), \u226562 mW (32 ohms), \u22657 mW (600 ohms).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"HIlidac Atom 2 MQA Dramatically Improves Your Smartphone Sound\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/5xztaeozzdr7x6ryw77xj8gt96rxw33x.jpg\" alt=\"HIlidac Atom 2 MQA Dramatically Improves Your Smartphone Sound\" width=\"870\" height=\"580\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<b>HIlidac Atom 2<\/b>\u00a0DAC is\u00a0equipped with a multi-color LED backlight that uses different colors depending on the characteristics of the input signal.\u00a0<b>Red is<\/b>\u00a0used for 44.1 \/ 48 kHz streams,\u00a0<b>blue<\/b>\u00a0for 88 &#8211; 384 kHz,\u00a0<b>green<\/b>\u00a0for 705 &#8211; 768 kHz,\u00a0<b>yellow<\/b>\u00a0for DoP,\u00a0<b>white<\/b>\u00a0for DSD, and\u00a0<b>magenta<\/b>\u00a0for MQA.<\/p>\n<p>[ratemypost]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HIlidac\u00a0announced a portable USB-DAC \/ headphone amp\u00a0HIlidac Atom 2 MQA\u00a0.\u00a0The novelty is offered both with a\u00a0USB-C\u00a0connector\u00a0for gadgets running\u00a0Android\u00a0, and in the\u00a0Lightning\u00a0version\u00a0for portable devices from\u00a0Apple\u00a0.\u00a0The Atom 2 is\u00a0equipped with the\u00a0ES9281AC\u00a0DAC\u00a0chip\u00a0from\u00a0ESS Technology\u00a0, which supports decoding of\u00a0PCM\u00a0streams\u00a0up to 32-bit \/ 768 kHz and DSD up to DSD512.\u00a0The novelty is made in a compact form factor with a connector [&hellip;] <a class=\"g1-link g1-link-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/uncategorized\/hilidac-atom-2-mqa-dramatically-improves-your-smartphone-sound\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":131698,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[779],"class_list":{"0":"post-131693","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-news"},"acf":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}