Cobalt clearly is the most warm sounding among them all with Hidizs S9 Pro being the most neutral and Topping D10s the most dry. The actual tuning separates them from one to another. This Cobalt being my 6th DAC/Amp with ES9038Q2M so I have some good idea of what to expect. Tuning focus for Cobalt is “Natural Sound” with the implementation of Minimum-phase Slow Roll-off Filter on the ES9038Q2M DAC. Scrutinizing everything to ascertain if the price demanded justify the quality and experience offered. Expectations were high and decidedly I was very critical with this one. $350 in total including shipping from Amazon. Native USB-A instead of C makes it larger and heavier than most Thumb drives.Sporadically warm nasal tonality for Mids on some songs when paired with warm IEMs/HPs.Audible Bass distortion when subjected to heavy load (driving over 60/100). Grainy edged Treble that gets worse when volume cranked higher.Does not work well with demanding Magnetic Planars, very unstable timbre coherence.Dismal speed handling when driving demanding IEMs/Headphones.Slow bass performance, slow attack, performs better with already fast IEMs.Remained cool even after used for long hours.Excellent details retrieval, great transparency.Commendable balance between technical and musical ability.Realistic (warm) guitar and stringed instruments tone.Impactful Mid-Bass response with natural texture, slow decays.Mids with natural placement, warm tonality.Organic neutral timbre, natural analogue tonality.PCM 24bit – 96khz MQA, SNR: Undisclosed, Power: 2.1 Vrms, USB Type-A Male, 3.5mm SE (Microphone: Unspecified), Aluminum Chassis, DragonTail USB-C Adapter
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