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iFi Audio GO bar Kensei Ultraportable DAC | Preamp | Headphone Amplifier

iFi Audio GO bar Kensei Ultraportable DAC | Preamp | Headphone Amplifier

The Ultimate GO bar.

Whether you’re commuting, working remotely, or traveling for pleasure, the GO bar Kensei offers a perfectly portable solution to elevate your headphone experience to heavenly heights. Kensei is a Japanese term that translates to “Sword Saint” in English, a title granted to the elite few who elevate the craft and artistry of swordsmanship beyond even that of the finest swordmasters.

Just as a Kensei deserves an exceptional blade, an audiophile deserves an exceptional DAC.

Tailored. Sweet Sound.  Listen your way with four bespoke digital filters and two analogue processing modes, each designed to enhance different music genres. Bit-Perfect delivers natural tones, making it ideal for all genres. GTO enhances sound details and density, particularly suited for vocal tracks. Minimum Phase produces a warmer sound, blending the characteristics of Bit-Perfect and Standard, making it perfect for soul and jazz. Standard offers a tighter sound with controlled highs, ideal for pop music and movie OST. XBass+ boosts bass, while XSpace creates a spacious soundstage.

Compact and Powerful. The GO Bar Kensei, crafted with Japanese stainless steel, offers maximum rigidity in a compact size (65 x 22 x 13.2 mm), similar to a USB flash drive. It’s the perfect travel companion for mobile, tablet, or MacBook Pro users. With USB-C connectivity for plug-and-play convenience, it delivers up to 477mW output power—10 times more than an iPhone 15. It features iEMatch for high-sensitivity IEMs and Turbo mode for power-hungry headphones, effortlessly driving a wide range of premium earphones and headphones. Compared to iPhone’s USB-C to 3.5mm Adapter.
The GO bar Kensei’s DAC section features a 16-core XMOS microcontroller programmed by us to optimise sound quality and perfectly complement the 32-bit Cirrus Logic DAC chipset. A customised digital filter reduces pre-echoes and ringing, while the GMT (Global Master Timing) precision clock system ensures ultra-low jitter. It supports high-resolution audio formats: PCM up to 32-bit/384kHz, Native DSD256, 2x DXD, and full MQA decoding.
Digital recordings can feel emotionally flat despite their clarity. Engineers at Victor Studio observed this gap between their original masters and digital sub-masters, prompting a quest for a solution. Through meticulous comparisons and human expertise, they developed K2 Technology. K2 Technology revives rich, natural harmonics in digital sound, adding an organic quality that breathes life into recordings. "The new K2 parameter values, selected by JVCKENWOOD and Victor Studio engineers, deliver the purest K2 effect, revealing the ideal 'K2 sound,'" said JVCKENWOOD.
 
$449.00
iFi Audio GO bar Kensei Ultraportable DAC | Preamp | Headphone Amplifier—
$449.00

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The Ultimate GO bar.

Whether you’re commuting, working remotely, or traveling for pleasure, the GO bar Kensei offers a perfectly portable solution to elevate your headphone experience to heavenly heights. Kensei is a Japanese term that translates to “Sword Saint” in English, a title granted to the elite few who elevate the craft and artistry of swordsmanship beyond even that of the finest swordmasters.

Just as a Kensei deserves an exceptional blade, an audiophile deserves an exceptional DAC.

Tailored. Sweet Sound.  Listen your way with four bespoke digital filters and two analogue processing modes, each designed to enhance different music genres. Bit-Perfect delivers natural tones, making it ideal for all genres. GTO enhances sound details and density, particularly suited for vocal tracks. Minimum Phase produces a warmer sound, blending the characteristics of Bit-Perfect and Standard, making it perfect for soul and jazz. Standard offers a tighter sound with controlled highs, ideal for pop music and movie OST. XBass+ boosts bass, while XSpace creates a spacious soundstage.

Compact and Powerful. The GO Bar Kensei, crafted with Japanese stainless steel, offers maximum rigidity in a compact size (65 x 22 x 13.2 mm), similar to a USB flash drive. It’s the perfect travel companion for mobile, tablet, or MacBook Pro users. With USB-C connectivity for plug-and-play convenience, it delivers up to 477mW output power—10 times more than an iPhone 15. It features iEMatch for high-sensitivity IEMs and Turbo mode for power-hungry headphones, effortlessly driving a wide range of premium earphones and headphones. Compared to iPhone’s USB-C to 3.5mm Adapter.
The GO bar Kensei’s DAC section features a 16-core XMOS microcontroller programmed by us to optimise sound quality and perfectly complement the 32-bit Cirrus Logic DAC chipset. A customised digital filter reduces pre-echoes and ringing, while the GMT (Global Master Timing) precision clock system ensures ultra-low jitter. It supports high-resolution audio formats: PCM up to 32-bit/384kHz, Native DSD256, 2x DXD, and full MQA decoding.
Digital recordings can feel emotionally flat despite their clarity. Engineers at Victor Studio observed this gap between their original masters and digital sub-masters, prompting a quest for a solution. Through meticulous comparisons and human expertise, they developed K2 Technology. K2 Technology revives rich, natural harmonics in digital sound, adding an organic quality that breathes life into recordings. "The new K2 parameter values, selected by JVCKENWOOD and Victor Studio engineers, deliver the purest K2 effect, revealing the ideal 'K2 sound,'" said JVCKENWOOD.