iFi Audio IFi xDSD Gryphon

iFi's xDSD Gryphon may not have the head of an eagle or the body of a lion, but it does have two powerful beasts housed inside. The company installed separate chips for the digital-to-analog converter and headphone amplifier. Each chip was fine-tuned by iFi to give you the most out of your music. There are plenty of digital and analog audio inputs for your sources, as well as balanced and unbalanced outputs for your headphones. iFi even added a high-quality Qualcomm Bluetooth chip for pairing compatible sources wirelessly. iFi doesn't play around when it comes to changing digital 1s and 0s into analog sound. They opted to give the Gryphon the same digital-to-analog converter chip used in their $3,000 flagship Pro iDSD Signature. The Burr-Brown 32-bit True Native® chip supports MQA, DSD, and DXD, as well as PCM files up to 768kHz. The company also used their GMT (Global Master Timing) clock to keep jitter and distortion to a minimum. The circuits going into and leading out of the DAC chip are symmetrically ...