The past six months has seen iFi gain two glowing five star-reviews from this publication and one What Hi-Fi? 2021 Award: not bad going for a firm that only came into being in 2012. The UK outfit carved a niche for itself by fashioning mostly small, always likeable, sometimes hipflask-shaped aids for your in-transit or on-desk sound, and the iFi Go Blu DAC/headphone amp is no exception – except that the promotional shots make it look more like a premium lighter than a vessel for alcohol.

The headline is that this portable DAC/headphone amp offers a Bluetooth 5.1 connection to your source device (although not to your headphones, those still need to be wired into the unit) thus eliminating one wire from the potentially bulky, tangled equation of phone, to DAC, to headphones.
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