Clarus CODA USB Headphone Amplifier DAC Review

MOON AUDIO | MOON AUDIO STAFF/SEP 27TH 2021

USB DACs are perfect for throwing in your bag with your laptop and hardly taking up any space. And yet, they offer amazing sound quality for your music that sounds completely incomparable to plugging headphones directly into your portable devices. I don't leave home without one, so will the Clarus CODA find a worthy place inside my laptop bag? Let's find out.

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