{"id":163965,"date":"2023-06-22T11:10:22","date_gmt":"2023-06-22T10:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techweekmag.com\/?p=163965"},"modified":"2023-06-22T11:10:22","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T10:10:22","slug":"quloos-mub1-portable-bluetooth-dac-headphone-amplifier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/hi-fi\/quloos-mub1-portable-bluetooth-dac-headphone-amplifier\/","title":{"rendered":"Quloos MUB1: Portable Bluetooth DAC & Headphone Amplifier"},"content":{"rendered":"

Quloos\u00a0has released a new model of headphone amplifier with a built-in\u00a0MUB1 digital-to\u00a0–\u00a0analog converter .<\/p>\n

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The DAC unit uses four\u00a0CS43131\u00a0chips from\u00a0Cirrus Logic\u00a0, which provides a signal-to-noise ratio of\u00a0-132 dB\u00a0and an THD of only\u00a00.0001%\u00a0.\u00a0The amplifier section is based on four\u00a0BUF634\u00a0op-amps , the output power is up to\u00a01100 MW\u00a0into 32 ohms.\u00a0Two jacks are provided for connecting headphones –\u00a03.5 mm\u00a0and\u00a04.4 mm\u00a0, another\u00a03.5 mm\u00a0jack can be used to output a digital signal in optical or electrical format, as well as a linear analog signal.<\/p>\n

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The built-in Bluetooth adapter supports\u00a0LDAC\u00a0and\u00a0aptX HD\u00a0codecs .\u00a0On the front panel of the aluminum case there is an OLED display, which displays the main service information.\u00a0The device can work with PCM 32bit \/ 384kHz\u00a0and native\u00a0DSD256\u00a0signals\u00a0, the USB-C port has two modes of operation – UAC2.0 and UAC1.0.<\/p>\n

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The Quloos MUB1\u00a0portable DAC and headphone amplifier\u00a0can be purchased online for\u00a0$499\u00a0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Quloos\u00a0has released a new model of headphone amplifier with a built-in\u00a0MUB1 digital-to\u00a0–\u00a0analog converter . The DAC unit uses four\u00a0CS43131\u00a0chips from\u00a0Cirrus Logic\u00a0, which provides a signal-to-noise ratio of\u00a0-132 dB\u00a0and an THD of only\u00a00.0001%\u00a0.\u00a0The amplifier section is based on four\u00a0BUF634\u00a0op-amps , the output power is up to\u00a01100 MW\u00a0into 32 ohms.\u00a0Two jacks are provided for connecting headphones –\u00a03.5 […] More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10404,"featured_media":163967,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[642],"tags":[779],"class_list":{"0":"post-163965","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\/163965","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=163965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}