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iFi Audio Valkyrie

The Valkyrie has a totally premium feel with a scratch-resistant Gorilla glass display on the top and the unit is hewn from a CNC-machined aluminium chassis with a champagne anodization and satin (soft touch) finish. The dimensions are 172 x 160 x 30mm and it is 882g. The Valkyrie can be transported, but it’s not truly portable—although a backpack could work. It has four 5,000mAh lithium-polymer batteries, claiming 18 hours playback.
The inputs to the Valkyrie include, on the analogue side, balanced 4.4mm and single-ended 3.5mm. There is USB-C, S/PDIF (Coaxial/Optical) and Bluetooth 5.4 on the digital side. Outputs are to balanced 4.4mm (13.5V/5,700mW (@32Ω)) and two single ended 3.5mm jacks as well as a stereo pair of RCA outputs.
The iFi Audio Valkyrie features an array of filters and setting on the digital side to optimise the performance to the listeners needs. It includes iFi’s EQ type enhancements, XSpace (wider soundstage treatment), XBass II (erm, a bass bump!) and XPresence (which is a midrange bounce). There are also eight filters, namely Bit Perfect, Standard, Minimum, GTO, Apodising and Transient Aligned. There are iFi’s ‘K2’ mode and ‘K2HD’ mode as well as a DSD remastering algorithm that, I think, uses custom-coded FPGA technology, beloved of Chord Electronics’ Hugo 2.

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