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TruthearSHIO

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New retail price (MSRP)

$70

Used market: $40*

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Specifications

3 of 11 values have a recorded source
Type
Dongle Adapter·
Bus powered
yes·
Maximum gain
0·
Analog inputs
·
Analog outputs
3.5mm Headphones · 4.4mm Balanced Headphones·
Digital inputs
USB-C·
USB power draw
2.5✓
Headphone output
2 Vrms·
Maximum sample rate
768·
Phantom power provided
no·
Indexable Locales
·

Expert Audio Engineering Commentary

Headroom notes

Truthear publishes clean per-jack, per-gain voltages (1.4 / 2 Vrms single-ended, 2 / 4 Vrms balanced) and then two power figures — 150 mW at 32 ohms and 55 mW at 300 ohms — without saying which jack they belong to. The 300-ohm figure only fits the balanced output; the 32-ohm figure fits neither cleanly. Only the voltage is recorded here; the power figures are left out rather than guessed at.

Setups using this gear

iPhone 16 + Truthear SHIO + ATH-M50x: low gain is already enoughCorsair HS55 Stereo impedance: 32 or 32,000 ohms? The same line is on three product pages

* Estimated with the depreciation fallback (~57% retained value).