It’s a tough one: you want to upgrade your phone’s sound with one of the best portable DACs going, but you’re still on an iPhone with a Lightning connector and your plan’s not due for an upgrade for a little while – so Apple’s newest USB-C toting iPhone 15 is a possibility, rather than a certainty. That’s OK. Astell & Kern’s brutalist, easily pocketable new HB1 DAC (which could even be mistaken for a high-end lighter to the uninitiated) comes with
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