Headphone: FOSTEX T40RP MK3 Magnetic Planar 91db 50Ω.Now let’s get to the details why I was underwhelmed, bear with me on this, but it must be understood how I came to this POV: But hell, I paid $350 to get this level of sonic indulgence? It has the warmth in contrast to JM20 brightness, the analogue tonality of JM04Pro. What I am hearing is a performance I have heard between a $20 JCally JM20 and JM04Pro – Yes it is vibrant and engaging. My personal experience with Cobalt was underwhelming to say the least from the moment of first listen until now. Honestly it is hard for me to be excited even as I write this. Lastly the dual ES9038Q2M of Cayin N6ii (E02) being the most versatile with very succinct filters option. E1DA 9038D is very well balanced and then followed by Shanling UA2.
#DRAGONFLY COBALT VS RED PRO#
Cobalt clearly is the most warm sounding among them all with Hidizs S9 Pro being the most neutral and Topping D10s the most dry. The actual tuning separates them from one to another. This Cobalt being my 6th DAC/Amp with ES9038Q2M so I have some good idea of what to expect. Tuning focus for Cobalt is “Natural Sound” with the implementation of Minimum-phase Slow Roll-off Filter on the ES9038Q2M DAC. Scrutinizing everything to ascertain if the price demanded justify the quality and experience offered. Expectations were high and decidedly I was very critical with this one. $350 in total including shipping from Amazon. Native USB-A instead of C makes it larger and heavier than most Thumb drives.Sporadically warm nasal tonality for Mids on some songs when paired with warm IEMs/HPs.Audible Bass distortion when subjected to heavy load (driving over 60/100).Grainy edged Treble that gets worse when volume cranked higher.
Organic neutral timbre, natural analogue tonality.PCM 24bit – 96khz MQA, SNR: Undisclosed, Power: 2.1 Vrms, USB Type-A Male, 3.5mm SE (Microphone: Unspecified), Aluminum Chassis, DragonTail USB-C Adapter
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