Review on 🎧 FX AUDIO DAC-X6MKII 192kHz Bluetooth DAC: Optical/Coaxial/PC-USB/Bluetooth to RCA & 6.35MM Headset Converter (Silver) by Doug Hook

I've owned and used an FX Audio DAC X-6 every day for years with no problems and I love it to death so if I needed a DAC for another room ideally go with it Bluetooth, it was a natural purchase. Unfortunately it was returned the same day it arrived because it was horribly constructed and made a horrible hiss every time it was turned on, no matter what input, what volume it was on (mute included ) and whatever. what combination of source and headphones was used. As soon as you turn on the device, it hisses. Loud enough to be heard when playing music at a decent volume. The GOOD thing about it is the Bluetooth connectivity, which is dope and pristine and I really like how it uses the front panel indicators to show you what volume you're at. A quick press of the volume down button instantly mutes whatever's playing, and turning on or switching audio sources is seamless rather than instantaneously bursting into your ears. This is the end of the list. Everything is good, but not enough to make up for the bad. BAD: More hiss. Unacceptable. There are many reasons for noise in amplifiers, but the main reason is poor internal performance. Next comes the volume control. This is a digital volume control, which means it's going to spin forever. That could be a good thing you're less likely to accidentally kill your ears by turning something on and forgetting that the volume control is up and enabling crossfading. that I mentioned earlier. Unfortunately, with this amp, you have to turn the knob tens of turns to go from low to high volume. It took forever to turn the volume up, which is a problem because you have to turn the volume UP on this amp to drive anything. X6 at just 11 o'clock on the standard low-gain watch face. At high gain (using the internal jumpers) barely turn a knob and you'll blow them up. However, with this amp I had to turn the source to maximum AND the amp on the volume meters to 4 out of 6, to even reach and maximize the listening volume, or maximum as far as I could tell, while the knob was spinning forever, it was loud but didn't hurt my ears. I was stunned that this thing was so weak. The sound quality is great, noise aside of course, and the features are great so I gave it 2 stars instead of 1 because it's completely broken, but they pretty much missed the mark here. If you need Bluetooth from a headphone amp there are probably better options (check out Fosi Audio, I've had good luck with that) or you can always add a Bluetooth receiver separately via optical depending on how you connect everything I'd have like more good news about this amp, but the design flaws are fatal and the noise, which may or may not be present on any device, was simply unacceptable. I was stunned that this thing was so weak. The sound quality is great, noise aside of course, and the features are great, so I gave it 2 stars instead of 1 because it's completely broken. but they missed the sign pretty badly here. If you need Bluetooth from a headphone amp there are probably better options (check out Fosi Audio, I've had good luck with that) or you can always add a Bluetooth receiver separately via optical depending on how you connect everything I'd have like more good news about this amp, but the design flaws are fatal and the noise, that may or may not be present on every device was simply unacceptable. I was stunned that this thing was so weak. The sound quality is great, noise aside of course, and the features are great so I gave it 2 stars instead of 1 because it's completely broken, but they pretty much missed the mark here. If you want Bluetooth from a headphone amp there are probably better options (check out Fosi Audio, I've had good luck with them before) or you can always add a Bluetooth receiver separately via optical depending on how you connect everything . I'd like more good news about this amp, but the design flaws are fatal, and the noise that may or may not be present on any unit was just unacceptable. but here they missed the mark. If you need Bluetooth from a headphone amp there are probably better options (check out Fosi Audio, I've had good luck with that) or you can always add a Bluetooth receiver separately via optical depending on how you connect everything I'd have I'd love to hear more good news about this amp, but the design flaws are fatal and the noise, which may or may not be present in any unit, was simply unacceptable. but here they missed the mark. how you connect it all I would like to have more good news about this amp but the design flaws are fatal and the noise that may or may not be present in any unit was just unacceptable. but here they missed the mark. how you connect it all I would like to have more good news about this amp but the design flaws are fatal and the noise that may or may not be present in any unit was just unacceptable. but here they missed the mark.