Uptone Regen or IFI Between Innous Zenith mk2 and dac?

[andrewinukm]

Innuos launched the Phoenix USB thingy not too long ago, and there's a review on the main page.

 

This is for PC setup (likely noisy USB), so take it with a pinch of salt:

I use iFi iUSB 3.0 Nano in front of Uptone ISO Regen in a laptop setup. Sounds preferable to just using either iFi or ISO Regen. The difference is quite small and very subtle on my current DAC compared to previous DACs I've used. I attribute it to the excellent USB input of this new DAC.

But you'd really have to try it to know if there's an improvement and whether you can hear this improvement.

 

Nice DAC, BTW!