Chicago based CEntrance Launches ‘HiFi-Skyn’ for iPhones

CEntrance launches crowd funding project  ‘HiFi-Skyn’  clip-on amplifier for iPhone series 5 and 6 and iPod touch 5G.

Your phone gets larger with this clip-on auxiliary battery case with an extended lower section containing the electronics, at an estimated $400. Conversely overall battery life is extended and it has 10 hours of high definition audio replay. Not from iTunes, but from your own HD downloads at up to 24 bit/192kHz, and including DSD. It can be described as a snap-on USB DAC and audiophile soundcard for the iPhone. It will be featured at CES 2015 and may be seen as a rival to Neil Young’s portable HD Audio Pono player and other HD players from Sony and also Astell and Kern.

Your iPhone gets fatter and longer with this protective case but the result is certainly much more compact that the usual external high fidelity DAC and headphone amplifier added to the phone.