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Arcam rPAC DAC and Headphone Amp Review and Unboxing

2012-11-02
hey guys how you doing today audio head here the review we have in front of us is for the our pack by our cam this is a headphone and USB DAC combination in one little unit it's pretty cool I'm gonna give you a quick unboxing first and then we'll go into a full review you can see from the boxing here that it's got some nice packaging I just like to do quick touch on that I think it's important to show the company's effort to how things go we obviously have four sides of printed material pretty high gloss pretty cool velvet bag pretty standard issue but still nice to have these days warranty literature you can see here we have a USB cable that comes with it also your standard free looking RCA this is the unit here as you can see it's quite small it's relatively heavy for its sides I wouldn't have to say very heavy it's very much like a hockey puck I said in the for review rubberized coating very good non-slip grip on the bottom the small headphone jack on the front two physical buttons here that control the volume and on the back simple USB input which is also how the unit is powered and just a single RCA out very nice I like it a lot I think that this thing is one of more durable kind of heavy feeling DAC combo units I've encountered in a long time it's it's very heavy I would say but it feels solid sitting on the dead it's not gonna tip over break I'm not saying it could take a blow if you dropped it very well but it feels like you could so there is that the sound firmness I found the price point is 250 right now online I found for that price point that the sound is fairly accurate for the DAX section so USB input to the DAC output for 2 round to 250 it's pretty much on par with the other decks in the price range I didn't notice any major external coloring clarity was good right around the 250 range and not too many other issues with it pretty much your standard sounding to 200 maybe you could get up to like 250 sounding you know audio digital to audio translation clear non colorized very acceptable the headphone output on this was worked great with in-ear monitors and easy to drive things the amplifier was very comparable to anything else in that range for any of your monitors however with full sized headphones it did not quite have the same kind of juice that I would expect and along with that I kind of felt like there's a little bit of clarity lacking in the overall quality wasn't as high as I expected so if you're looking at this for full-size headphones I would recommend pushing it out to an external amplifier by these guys right here and you'll probably go a lot better results I know I did when I did that situation so I feel I feel like overall this is a great little DAC for just your stereo if you wanted to run this straight out to that also in ear monitors work quite well but full-size headphones this might not be your bagga-t but it's definitely something worth checking out if you're using low impedance in your monitors because that did work well or just a small footprint because you can see this thing is really not that big at all and the build quality is probably the best I've seen in a while I mean it just feels extremely durable buttons click good there's also an LED light in the front here that glows green and flashes when it's going up or down as you hold down these buttons and then it goes solid when it's reaches minimum or maximum level the the internal amplifier here along with the full-size headphone kind of thing it they didn't really have a ton of juice to spare when it came to really high impedance headphones so that's something to think about when it comes to like really the really hard to push stuff you're gonna you know in most cases like this anyways you're gonna need a bigger full-size more powerful headphone amplifier when it comes to like things like that bait bear dynamic 880's like the 600 ohm stuff mm-hmm you know it requires quite a bit of juice so that's it for this deck we have a couple more coming down the pipeline which is nice let me know if you have any questions in the comment section and it always helps me out if you can subscribe to the channel on YouTube so have a good week guys bye bye
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