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hey everybody today we have the mini wat n for it's a relatively new product from a company that has traditionally made tube amplifiers the previous product they had was called the n3 it was a budget tube amplifier perhaps one of the very very few budget tube amplifiers for loudspeakers they decided to go a different direction with their next product into the more digital realm we're looking here at the headphone and DAC amplifier as USB inputs digital control over the volume it's in the digital domain you can see from the front here it just has a plus and minus those buttons do control the output of the headphone within the computer so if you have itunes on it will move that slider for you right there you don't have to reach out to a computer it's the same kind of functionality I found for some of the other more high-end software as well it moves the the dial on the inside of the software functionality wise pretty seamlessly so that was really good it's about the size of a deck of cards it's bound in leather with some white stitching on the side that's pretty nice 32 bit 192 DAC inside so it does do the high resolution stuff although it does not do DSD currently it is for more upgradable but one of the really kind of fun features of this particular DAC because there are quite a few other I'm just going to turn around and show you here located right here on the back now you can see USB input but you have full size RCA outputs so you can use it as an external deck if you want to a separate headphone amplifier but also a speed if coaxial digital output if you want to just use it as a USB converter to another deck so those are some pretty versatile kind of outputs especially considering this is a portable unit very cool I like that stuff i like i like full-size RCA as I like the versatility the only thing this one doesn't really have is an input for the headphone amplifier to use it as just a headphone amplifier exclusively but all things said the whole package works out quite nicely the retail is three hundred and forty-eight dollars on this particular one I found the sound to be pretty good for the price the DAC has just a teensy-weensy bit of basic situation over some of the other similar products in the field I kind of didn't mind it so much I thought that throughout the head deck and the headphone amplifier that bass kind of carried through and it was nice textured not overly so it's not grossly overly basie it's just a little bit of a little bit of bump there but not in the mid bass so just like kind of a low accentuation but extension to the trouble was really good for the DAC and through the headphone amplifier so all things being said I really did kind of enjoy this amp there are other a lot of alternatives out there you can check out some of my other videos to see that so there are quite a few products in this range right now but not many of them carry the same kind of inputs and outputs as this one does so a very decent product for what it is for what you get three hundred and roughly fifty dollars does get you quite a bit I thought it was a great little product so I if you something you can audition every ever get a chance to a highly recommend it check it out it's one of those decks that might be just right for you if you if meets all that checks all the boxes off that you're looking for so it's not quite as expensive as some of the big boys and you know it's not quite as cheap as some of the bare-bones one so you have a good arrangement it kind of lens right in the middle there what kind of all the stuff that's out there right now if you have any questions about the deck feel free to drop comments in the comment section and thank you guys for watching