Dragonfly 1.2

So I have the Audioquest Dragonfly 1.2. Stop laughing, I picked this up a long time ago. I haven't used it in a quite awhile, as I have been mostly listening from a Modi 2, and now the Bifrost Multibit. So I just recently started playing around with it again.

The thing is, I'm starting to think it sounds like ass. That is, more ass-like than I think is reasonable at its price, etc. At any price, actually. My laptop out (Lenovo Thinkpad) sounds better. I mostly hear the treble as etchy and grainy ass.

Am I nutter? I know the Dragonfly is not well respected, but I am surprised that it seems to fall behind a laptop out.

 

make sure you hook it up with the audioquest jizz usb cable, will improve the sound

 

I did a direct comparison between the Dragonfly 1.2 and the Schiit Fulla some time ago and found the Dragonfly to have a lot of digital hash and weird artifacts in the treble. Some tracks seemed worse than others. "Grainy ass" seems like a reasonable descriptor. "Digititus" comes to mind for me - false detail and lack of true resolution. Other than being small, I didn't find it to be worth any consideration. Oddly enough, it reminded me a lot of the garbage DAC that is built in to the Woo WA7 that I used to own (the shame...the shame).

 

The Nighthawk being fed by the WA7/Dragonfly was easily the worst demo I experienced at CanJam this past year. Gawd-awful. I actually felt bad for Skylar, as he seemed like a nice dude, and he clearly put a lot of work in to the headphone, but I digress...

 

Im4der, you should shill it on HF and sell it there

 

Yeah, I think this is a big factor. It's interesting how much better the low-end stuff seems these days. I credit Schiit for this - all around raising the standards.

I definitely need one of these.

Yeah, that matches what I'm hearing. Weird treble artifacts, grainy assness - so this is what people mean by digititus.

Thanks for the feedback everyone.

 

Lol. Wait, that's a good idea... ahhh no, even I'm not that cynical.