Customer Ratings & Reviews

I am a Best Buy employee and I've been wanting a Dragonfly for a while now but never pulled the trigger due to lack of support for mobile devices. I never really listen to music from my laptop; it's always from my phone using headphones or in my car. Audioquest revised this device for customers like myself. First off, I've had this for about an hour now and it took me a bit to start noticing the benefits. I'm currently using this on an S7 Edge with some V-Moda M-100s. There have been a few issues getting my phone to recognize the USB device. I'm running Spotify Premium and the first several times I plugged in the Dragonfly the music was super digitized and there were no highs. It was all bass and sounded like 16 bit music. I researched the Audioquest site and there will eventually be a firmware update client for the dragonfly, but currently the website says "coming soon." So that was no help.Through some more research on Head-Fi this is apparently an issue with Android Marshmallow. It works fine on Lollipop and iOS devices, but until Marshmallow gets an update, the USB audio support is finicky. The dragonfly does work on my phone but sometimes I have to unplug and re-plug it several times, or have a song already playing when I plug it in to get it to work. Incidentally, it has worked 100% of the time on my laptop. As for sound quality, as I started to say, I did notice a difference right away, but I didn't notice how vast it was until I switched back and forth from the DF to the headphone jack several times. Each time I used the phone's built in DAC I felt it sounded more and more flat and closed off. The soundstaging with the dragonfly is vastly better in comparison. It wasn't mind blowing, but just so much more preferable than what the Samsung built DAC was putting out. Like I stated I use Spotify Premium which gives me access to 320kbps mp3s, and I don't have any lossless music to test. I may migrate to Tidal which is a lossless music streaming app. I've had it previously and LOVED the audio quality but was not satisfied with the performance of the app itself. I can't wait to try my dragonfly in the car, even though the quality difference won't be as noticeable. The best way to use this device is with headphones or through a good home theater amp and great speakers, playing some lossless music like FLAC (no mp3s). So far I am extremely happy with my purchase and I haven't even put it through it's paces yet. Any music fanatic, or even just a casual listener should love this product. There is also a new Dragonfly Red that uses a more advance DAC with higher power output and a more controlled 1 step = 1 decibel volume control

You will love this bad boy. Really makes a difference.

I have this plugged into my computer running Tidal. I plug the other end into my Yamaha receiver and play through Sony speakers. Sounds so good. I would buy again.

All of the dragonflys are great devices. This one had a bit more power output for most of the hard to drive higher ohm cans. Highly recommend this for on the go or even desktop

I bought this Dragonfly Red DAC/AMP to use with headphones and it really does work as described to improve the sound of music.

GREAT DAC BOUGHT BECAUSE S20 ULTRA DOES NOT HAVE A HEAD PHONE JACK. ONLY THING DOES NOT COME WITH CORD HAVE TO USE PHONE WITHOUT CASE.

If you have wired headphones and really want to hear a major difference then get this device. Crisp and clean.

I love my Dragonfly product, it makes my music sound great. It almost feels like a live concert every time.

I’ve even using this exclusively as a headphone amp/DAC for my iPhone and it does make a big difference. I’ve been using a set of Focal Spirit earbuds and a set of Sony MDR1AM2. In the earbuds, I’m hearing much less distortion as higher volumes and don’t have turn them up as much. The lower end response is a little better, but it’s much more noticeable in the higher range. I haven’t listened to the Sony set without it so I have no comparison to without the usage of this DAC.

It's a very small DAC, the price is right for this kind of product, but it's still hard to carry around along with the camera adapter and the wired headphones required to be able to use it with an iPhone. I love it, but I only use it at home.

I have a large music collection on my MacBook Pro and it is amazing the difference this DAC makes on my Martin Logan electrostats. Highly recommend.

Greatly improved the audio coming from my PC. Using it on my main system, haven't tried it with headphones yet.

The upgrade in the sound of my music from computer and galaxy phone is incredible. Makes listening to music so much more enjoyable. Worth every penny.

This is the best value dac/amp that exists for the money. I now have two: one dedicated to my PC (connected to Harmon Kardon Soundsticks Wireless II’s) and one for my headphones (Sennheiser HD’s and Sennheiser HD650’s). If youre planning on using this with an Apple product MAKE SURE you buy the proper adapter. You can only get it from Apple and it’s called the Lightning to USB 3.0 Camera Adapter.

Nice improvement in sound quality from my phone and also let's me use better headphones.

I thought this DAC would clean up the audio signal from my computer through a dedicated stereo receiver. The product seems to mute the signal but not clean it up. The highs and mids are cut-off and the volume is reduced by the product. I was disappointed with this products performance.

Transform any audio file into a MAQ sound experience!

Excellent DAC which makes a noticeable improvement in the quality of the sound. The built in amplifier will also drive most high impedance headphones.

Awesome dac have used a few of them and sounds great

Great unit works and sounds amazing will recommend to others