Designed as an excellent-sounding iPod-type player, the HM-801 also functions as an audiophile
-quality stand alone DAC. Plug it into your home system for a major upgrade
to your CD player, blowing away most $2000 to $3000 top-rated, full-size DACs. Or you can plug it
straight into your amplifier and use it as a breathtaking, volume-controlled digital music source
for your main system, far better sounding than any computer and sound card combination.
The HM-801 incorporates solid state flash memory (less jitter than any hard drive memory),
dual Burr Brown 1704 DAC chips (a true ladder DAC found in discerning $3000 CD players; outdoes
trendy but flawed delta-sigma chips), and the OPA 627 chip (used in the finest portable headphone
amplifiers available). Its hefty lithium battery provides 8 hours per charge--and is a key element
of the HM-801's incredibile-sounding value as a stand alone DAC. Operating on DC power allows this
admirably designed chipset to function using pure clean power--free of the AC noise,
grunge and harshness that even the very best expensive line conditioners can't eliminate.
