Hanesu
1000+ Head-Fier
I can generally understand both sides, but totally get Sulbh`s point. There is no way around that the SG1 is unusually weak in terms of power output for what it is! It`s a bluetooth DAC-Amp. It`s purpose is to wirelessly connect different sorts of portable gear to a smartphone and drive it properly. It`s a fact that it cannot drive even some earphones properly that almost any other product in the same category can drive (I have owned many different BT dac amps and none of it had problems to drive my Szalayi). That is why I was surprised, too, that it could not. If one orders such product, one would not expect that.Sure, but perhaps all that means is you chose the wrong DAC/Amp not that the device is generally poor. For a starter buying a small portable device with essentially balanced design to drive full size headphones from its less powerful single ended output makes no sense to me.
Buy yourself an iFi Diablo, you won’t be short of volume.
Driving power is a weakness of the SG1 (and the gold version, that came out later, obviously is a reaction to that).
As I have written before, in my opinion the SG1 is a niche product for analogish sound lovers that can live with it`s weaknesses, that it clearly has. That is everything one has to know.
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