# Kiwi Ears Allegro Mini
- **Product Page**: https://chi-fi.top/dac/kiwi-ears-allegro-mini
- **Category**: Headphone DACs
- **Brand**: Kiwi Ears
- **Price**: from $24 USD
- **Summary**: Cheap headphone dongle with a 4.4 mm balanced jack
- **AliExpress**: https://s.click.aliexpress.com/e/_c3KGm7Cx

## Pros
- The cheapest way to get both a 3.5 mm and a 4.4 mm balanced jack
- Clean, clear sound with earphones, according to reviewers
- Small metal body that plugs straight into a phone
- Low power draw from the phone

## Cons
- Low power: 30 mW at 32 Ω (maker's figure), only a little more than Apple's basic USB-C adapter in one reviewer's test
- The 4.4 mm jack gives no extra power over the 3.5 mm one, by the same reviewer's measurements
- Not for hard-to-drive headphones
- Can be too loud for very sensitive earphones, leaving little room on the volume scale

## Specifications
- **Outputs**: 3.5 mm, 4.4 mm
- **Max sample rate**: 384 kHz
- **Max bit depth**: 32 bit
- **DSD support**: Yes
- **Output power at 32 Ω**: 30 mW
- **Signal-to-noise ratio**: 114 dB

## Details & Specifications
The Kiwi Ears Allegro Mini is a small headphone dongle from Linsoul's Kiwi Ears brand. It plugs into the USB-C port of a phone or laptop and has two jacks: a standard 3.5 mm one and a 4.4 mm balanced one, which is rare at this price. Reviewers describe its sound as clean and clear, and it draws little power from the phone.

It's built for earphones, not big headphones. Its rated power is low, and in one reviewer's test it was only slightly louder than Apple's basic USB-C adapter, with no extra power from the 4.4 mm jack. With very sensitive earphones it can go the other way: loud at low volume steps, with little room to fine-tune.

- DAC chip not named by the maker
- 30 mW per channel at 32 Ω (maker's figure)
- 3.5 mm and 4.4 mm balanced outputs
- Up to 32-bit/384 kHz PCM and DSD128
- Signal-to-noise ratio of at least 114 dB (maker's figure)
- Aluminium body
- USB-C

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