{"id":139618,"date":"2022-01-17T14:18:31","date_gmt":"2022-01-17T14:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techweekmag.com\/?p=139618"},"modified":"2022-01-17T14:19:12","modified_gmt":"2022-01-17T14:19:12","slug":"ifi-zen-one-signature-dac-bluetooth-zen-blue-v2-and-mqa-384khz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/hi-fi\/ifi-zen-one-signature-dac-bluetooth-zen-blue-v2-and-mqa-384khz\/","title":{"rendered":"iFi ZEN One Signature DAC: Bluetooth Zen Blue V2 and MQA 384kHz"},"content":{"rendered":"

iFi Audio\u00a0has released\u00a0the ZEN One Signature DAC.\u00a0Remarkably, it does not have a headphone amplifier or volume control – the novelty only converts a digital signal to analog.<\/p>\n

In fact, the ZEN One Signature is an advanced\u00a0Zen DAC V2\u00a0with S\/PDIF inputs (optical and coaxial), a USB port, and Zen Blue V2 Bluetooth technology.\u00a0The balanced circuit is capable of decoding 32bit\/384kHz PCM over USB or 192kHz over S\/PDIF and single and dual speed DXD and DSD up to DSD256.\u00a0The novelty also supports MQA with full decoding up to 384 kHz resolutions.<\/p>\n

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Using the capabilities of the Burr-Brown True Native chipset, the PCM and DSD signals in the circuit take different paths – and, according to the Signature concept, these paths have been shortened and optimized.\u00a0The XMOS audio data processing chip is a 16-core microcontroller programmed using proprietary iFi algorithms.\u00a0All this is complemented by the latest generation iFi GMT (Global Master Timing) femtocurrent timer and an intelligent memory buffer.<\/p>\n

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The components on the board are placed using surface mount technology.\u00a0At the same time, as stated, the manufacturer used high-quality components: Panasonic OS-CON and Elna Silmic II capacitors.\u00a0At the output, the signal can be received through analog RCA outputs or through a balanced 4.4 mm jack.<\/p>\n

The iFi ZEN One Signature DAC has a suggested retail price of \u00a3350 in the UK.<\/p>\n

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iFi Audio\u00a0has released\u00a0the ZEN One Signature DAC.\u00a0Remarkably, it does not have a headphone amplifier or volume control – the novelty only converts a digital signal to analog. In fact, the ZEN One Signature is an advanced\u00a0Zen DAC V2\u00a0with S\/PDIF inputs (optical and coaxial), a USB port, and Zen Blue V2 Bluetooth technology.\u00a0The balanced circuit is […] More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10404,"featured_media":139619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[642],"tags":[779],"class_list":["post-139618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hi-fi","tag-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}