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Important Update (8/1/25) FiiO is the first audio company reacting to the issue of DRE-induced distortion associated with the CS431xx chips! A new firmware release for the FiiO KA15 supports an option to enable or disable DRE. With this firmware installed, it does not exhibit distortion behavior...

Introduction Presented here is a review of the JCally JM20 Max based on detailed measurements. This DAC/headphone dongle has some features that piqued my curiosity: It is a USB dongle that claims to provide relatively high unbalanced output power (195 mW @ 32 Ohm per channel), which is rare...