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Kensei (translated as Sword Saint in Japanese) is an honorific title to a warrior that is well-versed with swordsmanship that reaches them to legendary status. The most well-known historical personality that carried this title was Miyamoto Musashi with his exploits on his sword duel with some of the best swordsmen of his era and his authorship of The Book Of Five Rings. Portable headphone amplifiers also known as DAC/Amp dongles are modern peripheral devices that are equipped with some of the recent breakthroughs in audio technology like better circuitry, system on chip that handles audio decoding/encoding process and other components to improve audio signal output to have a clean, clear and detailed sound quality for better high fidelity experience. It became a staple device for audio enthusiasts who still want a high quality sound even while on the move while having that mobility to be carried anywhere that will be used on their smartphones, laptops and tablets. iFi is a UK-based aud...

The audio product that will be featured in this review article is another one from  TANCHJIM  as I recently published the  ZERO ULTIMA . This one is more a peripheral device that will be use for modern smartphones, tablets, PC and laptops. This is  TANCHJIM STARGATE II  and it is a successor model of the previous namesake model that was released from 2021. It is a single port headphone amp dongle that shares a similar design to Apple type-C headphone amp dongles. But this one is way more advanced when it comes to power amplification and it has a proven DAC chip that was also implemented inside. On its overall design, it has a compact design and is quite lightweight that each part of its frame has an aluminium alloy frame which is pretty sturdy yet light. The audio output jack has a 3.5mm unbalanced and the inner metal tube has gold-plating for better wear and tear resistance like corrosion and better conductivity. And then, it was connected with a USB type-C par...