This is the best portable Dac/Amp combo within 8000 INR price bracket. I pair it mainly with my Moondrop Blessing 2 with it's 4.4mm balanced connection. Sound is super clean and plenty of power for my power hungry Hifiman Sundara as well. No static noise whatsoever for low impeadence iems. But for some strange reason my Samsung Galaxy S23 doesn't detect it instantly. I have to unplug and plug it for 4-5 times then the indicator turns on. Same thing happens for my Apple 12 Mini but in this case it is detected in second time. No such issue has found for other smartphones like Realme GT2 Pro, Oneplus 9 Pro and PC as well. But my Moondrop Dawn Pro OG has no such issues whatsoever. Overall this is the only thing you need if you want to listen audiophile grade sound within budget. Moondrop does it again!!

Thanks The audio store for suggesting me wonderful Dac.

Pros : Powerful sound. Didn't feel any heat.
cons: No cons.
just nitpicking, Draws power from Smart phone. I used it on s23 ultra. But still cant ignore battery drain. And built is good, but a protective cover could be useful. It fell from my hands and now have minor dent.

Over all great Buy, timely delivered, 👍 👌 👏 😀 🙂 😊

Previously I was using a jcally jm6 pro, to be honest, I can now actually hear a difference In my NOVA. The bass got tighter and the air frequencies cleared up. This is a perfect affordable dac for multi driver and hard to drive IEMs.

Was skeptical initially, but went along anyhow. But I was not disappointed as the DAC is excellent with pure sound production which is delight to hear. Transformed my Mobile to a DAP...Thoroughly enjoying the item. Highly recommended and must buy given the reasonable price point. Go for it..

When I first plugged in to my OnePlus 11 I was overjoyed at first and then my heart sank. There was a periodic popping/clicking/crackling noise in the left channel only. I was devastated and decided to return the product. I am using Apple Music for the testing. I then tested various scenarios and noticed that the crackling was not present in Spotify. So decided to dig deep and tested the DAC on my laptop with Apple Music and lo and behold no crackling noise. So I decided to research and what I can deduce is that how Android processes audio signals is messing up the DAC and they are not in sync giving rise to the issue. Maybe apple is also the problem here because the DAC doesn't change bitrates with changing songs. For example the lights will turn blue for the high res lossless format basically anything above 24bit 96KHz and stay that way for all the songs even in 16bit 44.1Khz. I honestly don't know who is at fault here so there's that.
Now coming to the sound quality. Previously all the DAC experience I had was with the Oneplus dongle, the VE abigail and Astell and Kern XB10. I thought the XB10 was the best of the bunch and also some "audio" channels suggested that a DAC only have more power and that's it and that it doesn't change how the earphone sounds. Well that is not true as my IEMs all sound significantly different but all are subjective qualities. The soundstage feels a bit bigger, music feels more effortless and livelier and the bass is also effortless and dare I say a bit detailed. The music overall sounds fuller if it makes any sense.
I also like the build quality a lot but I would prefer some kind of protection on the perforations at the front, as these are supposed to be portable and I don't want to be worried about water damage.
The 4.4 mm output is great, though I don't use it that much as they don't improve audio quality and is supposed to be a fail safe for harder to drive headphones but I am an IEM guy so there's that.
Overall thumbs up from me.