Its a vividly detailed and balanced listen, handling complicated mixes with a skilled hand.
It’s also able to extract every last ounce of information from your digital audio files with apparent ease.
The design is tidier and more thoughtful than before.
Oh, it’s red and no mistake
Specification has moved on a little, too, thanks to new facilities with Bluetooth 5.4 and xMEMS headphones.
No matter where youre shopping, this is serious money for a piece of desktop equipment.
And so it proves.
Note the ‘wings’
A relatively large analogue volume control (with sliding lock) completes the front fascia line-up.
If you came for vaulting dynamism and/or overtly stocky low frequencies, you might want to look elsewhere.
It creates a big, open soundstage and organises it well.
Everything in its right place…
Its almost fanatical in its attention to the small harmonic variations that lesser amplifiers are happy to overlook.
The length of cables supplied are a minor irritation, though.
Both my iOS and my Android smartphones see, and pair with, the iDSD Diablo 2 quickly enough.
The bulk of my testing was done with the Sennheiser IE900 or the Austrian Audio ‘The Composer’
Value score: 4/5
Should you buy iFi iDSD Diablo 2?
This white light (for aptX Lossless) was oddly hard to come by when using sources able to handle it…
Note the new ‘rails’ on the casework to help with cooling
iFi makes strong design choices and you love to see it
