iFi audioZEN DAC 3
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New retail price (MSRP)
$229
Used market: $135*
Specifications
5 of 11 values have a recorded source- Type
- DAC/Amp Combo·
- Bus powered
- yes·
- Maximum gain
- 0·
- Analog inputs
- ·
- Analog outputs
- 6.35mm Headphones · 4.4mm Balanced Headphones · RCA Line Out · 4.4mm Balanced Line Out·
- Digital inputs
- USB-C·
- USB power draw
- 2.5✓
- Headphone output
- 3.29 Vrms, 1 Ω·
- Maximum sample rate
- 768·
- Phantom power provided
- no·
- Indexable Locales
- en·
Expert Audio Engineering Commentary
Headroom notes
iFi quotes power at 32 and 600 ohms but never a voltage, so the voltage here comes from the 600-ohm point, where the amplifier is voltage-limited rather than current-limited. The balanced 4.4 mm jack reaches roughly twice that. Note that the '<=200 ohm' and '<=100 ohm' impedance figures on the page belong to the line outputs, not to the headphone amplifier — mixing them up would make the device look catastrophic.
Setups using this gear
* Estimated with the depreciation fallback (~59% retained value).