[fabio19]

Do any of you know this brand or can you say something about this Dac / Dap?

Portable headphone amplifier 2x 1.5 W
Automatic load impedance detection and gain adjustment
Dual mono ‐ fully balanced topology
Media player, streamer
USB audio 2.0 DAC ‐ any format or resolution supported
SABRE ES9038PRO ‐ 136dB signal to noise ratio
Separate L and R +/‐ 15V power supplies
Music on demand services ‐ Tidal, Qobuz, etc.
R2R ‐ 256 steps pure analog volume control
Analog and digital optical inputs
Dual AMOLED display for VU‐meter, spectrum, cover art
Voice commands
Wireless charging
10.000 mA custom made battery
Advanced music recognition engine, retrieving cover art info even
when using analog input
170x82x18 mm

Audio performance
DAC section
‐ SNR: ‐ 136 dB
‐ THD: ‐ 122 dB
‐ maximum resolution :32/768
‐ analog and optical digital inputs
Amplifier section
‐ better than ‐132 dB SNR @ max. 1.5W rms
Electrical performance
‐ Audio clocking max jitter 200fs, ‐138 dBc phase noise
‐ Audio output power supplies max noise: better than 10uVrms
‐ DAC power supplies max noise: better than 1 uVrms
‐ Texas Instruments WLAN/ Bluetooth
Features
‐ Sabre ES9038PRO
‐ USB DAC functionality with music recognition engine
‐ analog and optical digital inputs with music recognition engine
‐ internal SD card socket plus 2x external SD card sockets
‐ output R2R volume with CMOS switches, eliminating the need to decrease the SNR by digitally altering
the volume
‐ WLAN a/b/g/n, Bluetooth
‐ OLED display
‐ wireless charging
‐ 10.000 mA battery
‐ dual mono design
‐ separate L and R audio power supplies for each stage
‐ 2x 14V positive and negative power supplies for the output stages
‐ automatic measurement of the headphone impedance for adjusting the gain according to the load,
between 8 to 600 Ohm
‐ aviation grade aluminum housing

 

[monsieurfromag3]

Brilliant find! These guys are one of the most interesting brands I’ve come across. So distinctive.
I found this article by Darko. Somehow the Float can work with Qobuz and Tidal, though how exactly is unclear - maybe using the item on the right as Wifi/BT streamer with control and display through the screen on the item on the left?

 

[fabio19]

I can't tell you how Tidal can work ...... but I think that evaluating the data sheet it is a very interesting object. Even if the price remains very high.

 

[Forever8895]

Do we have more info about this thing? It seems to be a portable DAP. Although I guess the price must be high, it’s very interesting to see such type of player in the world full of Android daps recently

p/s: oh yes, it’s expensive...
https://valhifi.co.uk/shop/p/borgaudio-float-portable-headphone-amplifier

I don’t see any button though. I’m interested in how this thing works

 

[fabio19]

we can try to send an email to the company and ask to come to headhifi to explain more ...

 

[monsieurfromag3]

we can try to send an email to the company and ask to come to headhifi to explain more ...

Back when I wrote for magazines I would have pitched a feature on borg definitely. The float haunts me, damn you fabio
I know next to nothing about it and yet (perhaps because of how mysterious it is) it’s one of the objects I’ve desired the most in a long while.
I’ll see if I can set up an approach.

oh and @Forever8895 good find, so the item with no screen seems to be a wireless charging station.