A powerful desktop DAC with a headphone amplifier is always a pleasure to see in our test lab. Even when it comes with a reasonable price like this iFi Audio Zen DAC. Compact, desktop DACs with a built-in headphone amplifier are very popular today. We decide on them after purchasing a higher quality pair of headphones, aware that integrated sound cards are probably not able to get the best out of them, and motivated by the fact that such DACs pull all of the electronics in charge of sound processing from the computer case and yet have much more specific