HRT 355 Head Streamer Mobile Headphone Amplifier, White

If you listen to music on headphones via a computer, iPad, Surface tablet or a Samsung Galaxy S ll or lll phone and want better sound quality then HRT's HeadStreamer Mobile is the perfect solution. Technically, HeadStreamer Mobile is a USB-connected and powered dedicated headphone amplifier/sound card designed to seamlessly interface with PC, Linux, and Macintosh computers, iPads (1, 2 & 3), Microsoft Surface tablet and the Samsung Galaxy S ll and lll phones. It directly decodes the digital music data stream from the computer, tablet or phone's hard drive into analog music for headphone listening. Like other HRT products, set up and operation is super-easy: just use the included USB cable to hook the USB input of the HeadStreamer Mobile into any available USB port on the host computer*. The HeadStreamer Mobile automatically performs an "electronic handshake" with the source device and tells it that the HeadStreamer Mobile is here, that it is to get all audio signals sent to it instead of the Digital-to-Analog converter (DAC) that is built into the computer, tablet or phone... And that's it, the HeadStreamer Mobile, is in charge of all data-transfer timing instructions. Then just plug your headphones into the 1/8" analog output jack on HeadStreamer Mobile. Now you are ready to stream some music, either directly by playing a disc through the computers optical drive, or read as a digital file from your computer, tablet or phone's hard drive. You will literally never need a stand-alone CD player again to enjoy all the music in your CD collection in high quality sound through headphones. If you happen to have other higher-resolution files (up to 24bit/96k) stored on your HD, you can also play them in their full native resolution (no up-sampling).