Promised
Hidizs to share what I think about the
SD2 dongle, so here's a small post about it. Also thanks for sending me the dongle together with the MP145.
The ESS implementation has no sharp brightness to it, its actually quite warm and smooth sounding. Not at the level of Colorfly CDA M1P in warmth, but not that far off.
Most Cirrus Logic dongles like Truthear Shio or Simgot DEW4X is more resolving and dynamic sounding, and I much preffer those. Weak power output that's quite notable on harder to drive planar IEMs.
There is also the awkward design that to me dont look pleasing or premium at all, would almost believe this was a gamer dongle made by Asus.
The way its made also make it really easy to get strain on the phone port you use, the design having no cable do make it less bother some when in your pants and that's a positive. My problem is that the USB C is slightly small compared to most other dongles I have with USB C, so if your like me who have a phone with plug that's more loose it will loose connection way to easy.
Another thing its impossible to position the phone and the dongle in my work car phone holder, probably other phone holder that can work.
There is also the occasionally pop noise it picks up from both my work phone and private one, this is not here on dongles like CDA M1P or DEW4X. Doubt Hidizs will like this post, so ill end it now with a pro con list.
Pro
- Price
- Small size
- Support Microphone cable
- Warm smooth tonality
- Led Light for sampling rate
- Longer USB C part works with most phone cases
Con
- Design
- Not most resolving dongle
- Awkward build
- No balanced
- Easy to get usb strain due to fixed design
- No volume buttons
- Not very powerful as a dongle
Then the next thing I will write about is their planar MP145, not that negative there. But also got something to complain about
