Outboard DACs

We've become familiar with the way HiFi Rose has designed its Rose OS – built on Android – and Rose Connect app to work together. So while you can set up and use the RS250A with either the front touchscreen or the supplied remote handset, the Rose Connect Premium app is by far the smoothest way of doing things. It offers the flexibility to customise the unit to your needs: inputs and outputs can be switched on and off to keep operation simple, and processing applied to each. Select an output and enable it – the chosen one turns gold on the app screen – and then use the 'gear wheel' settings icon to delve deeper.

For example, you can choose the degree of upsampling you wish to invoke, select whether DSD content is handled 'as is' or converted to PCM, and choose between seven digital filter options. The output menu will also let you choose between fixed level or variable, the latter allowing the RS250A to be used straight into a power amp.