{"id":138422,"date":"2021-11-21T06:25:24","date_gmt":"2021-11-21T06:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techweekmag.com\/?p=138422"},"modified":"2021-11-21T06:25:24","modified_gmt":"2021-11-21T06:25:24","slug":"mytek-liberty-dac-ii-affordable-dac-headphone-amplifier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/hi-fi\/mytek-liberty-dac-ii-affordable-dac-headphone-amplifier\/","title":{"rendered":"Mytek Liberty DAC II: Affordable DAC headphone amplifier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Liberty DAC II &#8211; the most affordable DAC headphone amplifier Mytek, about which the company proudly\u00a0announced\u00a0, &#8220;developed in New York.&#8221;\u00a0The novelty received quite comprehensive characteristics, working out 32-bit PCM at frequencies up to 768 kHz, as well as native DSD up to DSD512 and DXD.<\/p>\n<p>Called the little\u00a0brother of the\u00a0Brooklyn DAC\u00a0, the\u00a0Liberty DAC II is\u00a0powered by an ES9038 chipset coupled with a 10 ps clock.\u00a0As a result, the device is promised a signal-to-noise ratio of no worse than 127 dB.<\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/160_techweek.jpg\" width=\"825\" height=\"452\" \/><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Fans of advanced Internet audio services will appreciate the built-in certified hardware MQA Hi-Res decoder. The Liberty DAC II accepts a digital signal on USB2 and AES \/ EBU interfaces, supplemented by an S \/ PDIF pair and a Toslink \/ ADAT pair. The novelty accepts updates via USB. Analog outputs are available in RCA unbalanced and XLR balanced versions.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the future owners of the Liberty DAC II are at the service of the future owners of the Liberty DAC II &#8211; a reference, according to the manufacturer, a high-current headphone amplifier, ready to deliver up to 3 W in a channel with its own output impedance of 0.1 Ohm.\u00a0All this is assembled in a case measuring 140x225x44 mm and weighing 2 kg.<\/p>\n<p>In the US, the <a href=\"https:\/\/mytek.audio\/shop\/lbrt-dac-ii-liberty-dac-ii-287\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mytek Liberty DAC II<\/a> headphone DAC will cost $ 1,300.<\/p>\n<p>[ratemypost]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liberty DAC II &#8211; the most affordable DAC headphone amplifier Mytek, about which the company proudly\u00a0announced\u00a0, &#8220;developed in New York.&#8221;\u00a0The novelty received quite comprehensive characteristics, working out 32-bit PCM at frequencies up to 768 kHz, as well as native DSD up to DSD512 and DXD. Called the little\u00a0brother of the\u00a0Brooklyn DAC\u00a0, the\u00a0Liberty DAC II is\u00a0powered [&hellip;] <a class=\"g1-link g1-link-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/hi-fi\/mytek-liberty-dac-ii-affordable-dac-headphone-amplifier\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10404,"featured_media":138425,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[642],"tags":[779],"class_list":{"0":"post-138422","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hi-fi","8":"tag-news"},"acf":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138422","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\/10404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}