![]() ![]() No – that’d sound like a load of blah-blah-blah to an already sleep-deprived fella. Or that its TI TAS1020B USB receiver chip hosted Gordon Rankin’s Streamlength™ code. I didn’t want to get into the technical skinny of the DragonFly v1.2’s ESS 9023 DAC or that its analogue volume control was controlled by digital markers sent by the host device. “Is that a USB drive?”, pressed my new neighbour. The difference between Doug’s music setup and mine? AudioQuest’s DragonFly (the 1.2 version) protruding from the left-hand USB port. ![]() His poison? A Macbook, a pair of B&W headphones and a double Johnnie Walker. We were one end of a line of ten or so anonymous travellers doing transit time in Los Angeles. Brain pain subsiding, I punched in something a little more engaging – Giant Giant Sand’s Tucson – when came a tap on the shoulder.ĭoug was the thirty-something pharmaceutical salesman from Boston who had taken the seat next to mine at the end of the bar. Sealed in behind a pair of Beyerdynamic AKT5p, I began to relax, to forget the fourteen hour flight ahead of me and Eno’s aural wallpaper. No mind, my Macbook Air would join a glass of IPA on the bar and I’d get my Eno fix courtesy of the airport’s Wifi service and Spotify. On it sat Brian Eno’s Ambient 1: Music For Airports, the very album I’d wanted to hear in order to soothe an inbound headache. As had the microUSB cable required to recharge my Astell&Kern AK120 II. The last vestiges of sunlight had only just vanished. Destinations remain a long way off mentally and physically when you’re between hemispheres I took a stool up at the only bar I could find still serving drinks at 9pm. I was on my way from somewhere to somewhere else. ![]()
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