Apogee - Groove (USB DAC & Headphone Amp)
Apogee Groove is the best portable USB DAC and headphone amp for listening to music on your Mac or PC. Groove takes the same high quality audio technology found in the world's most prestigious recording studios and delivers it to your laptop. Connect Groove directly to your computer and connect your headphones or powered speakers directly to Groove.
For 30 years, Apogee has been an innovator and industry leader in digital audio recording. Now Groove makes Apogee sound quality available in a simple take-anywhere device dedicated to delivering the ultimate listening experience. Unlock the full potential of your high-res audio files, rediscover your iTunes library and stream Spotify, Pandora or your favorite music services with incredible clarity and detail.
Groove's Constant Current Drive output stage is a truly revolutionary approach to dealing with the wide impedance variations of headphones available on the market today. With Constant Current Drive technology, Groove's output stage's voltage is dynamically “molded” to the impedance variations of the connected headphones, thereby smoothing out frequency response non-linearity that occurs with traditional headphone outputs.
Groove also features a Quad Sum DAC design which employs four digital-to-analog converters per channel to achieve the highest dynamic range and lowest distortion (THD+N) of any device in its class.
Features
- ESS Sabre 32-Bit Hyperstream DAC
- 4x Quad Sum DAC Converters per Channel
- Constant Current Drive
- Time Domain Jitter eliminator
- Volume Up and Volume Down/Mute Buttons
- Asynchronous Clocking
- USB Bus Powered
- Enhance iTunes, Tidal, Spotify, Pandora
- 1/8" Headphone Output
- Premium Aluminum, Built in the USA
GROOVE Specs
| Mac System Requirements | Computer: Intel Mac 1.5 GHz or faster Memory: 2 GB RAM minimum, 4 GB recommended OS: 10.8 or greater Connection and Power: Any available USB port Driver: Mac Core Audio. No download or installation necessary |
| PC System Requirements | PC or laptop manufactured after January 2006 Intel Core 2 @ 1.6 GHz or AMD equivalent Memory: 1 GB RAM minimum Windows 7 (32 and 64 bit) Windows 8 (32 and 64 bit) Windows 8.1 (32 and 64 bit) Connection and Power: Any available USB port Driver: Register to download from Apogee's website |
| I/O | 1x USB Micro B 1x 1/8" (3.5 mm) stereo |