Luxury & Precision is a premium audio equipment manufacturing brand based in China. They are the leading manufacturers of high-tier Hi-res players that feature an R2R DAC setup. A few months back they released their portable USB DAC/AMP, the L&P W1. It grabbed a lot of positive reviews from the community for its powerful sound quality and superb build. Today, the brand has announced its latest upgraded flagship USB DAC/AMP, the Luxury & Precision W2.
The Luxury & Precision W2 is a flagship-grade portable USB DAC/AMP featuring two high-performance CS43198 DAC chips that deliver class-leading performance with ultra-low distortion and high SNR ratings. It features a professionally designed premium audio chipset that provides a super clean output with 0 noise floor and pitch dark background. The W2 features high-gate-count FPGA for EQ processing providing lossless EQ on top of parallel processing DSP. It is equipped with two headphone output ports, one single-ended 3.5mm, and another 4.4mm Pentaconn balanced headphone output. It is actually of its kind USB DAC/AMP that features SPDIF output. The L&P W2 has a price tag of 299.99$.
Luxury & Precision has professionally designed the power supply for the W2. It features a separate power supply for USB and DAC chips resulting in a pure sound output free from any kind of electrical distortion. Both the USB and DAC chips take very low power from the source device preserving its battery.
Specs:
>Flagship Dual DAC chipset(2xCS43198).
>High-Gate-Count FPGA Chip.
>Low-power MCU chip.
>Super-Clean Output.
>Ultra-Low background noise.
>Dual high-power amplification chip.
>Balanced 4.4mm Headphone output.
>Single-ended 3.5mm headphone output.
>SPDIF output(3.5mm).
>Low-power consumption.
>Easy firmware upgrade.
>Output power up to 230mW @ 32ohms.