Hey, all!
First time poster here, not first time visiting though. I've finally sadly and begrudgingly lost the 3.5mm port of my Galaxy S10 in a move to the S22. I've spent about 2 weeks scouring these and other forums at this point, and am finding that it's very rare that a given dongles power input is measured. The prices seem to range from $5 to, I don't know, hundreds of dollars, and the quality is all over the place as well. Most rankings go by sound quality, few by value, and non by quality x power draw. Separately, size isn't considered either, and rarely is build quality (pocketed wires tend to get crimped and abused). I've picked up an Apple dongle (not sure what chip) and a Ugreen HiFi Audio Pro (allegedly using Cirrus Logic CS43131). The latter might be a copy of the Meizu Hifi Audio Pro. Just doing back of the napkin math the latter seems to use more power than the former, and both use more power than the integrated DAC when testing on the S10. The S10 might actually have a pretty poor DAC, but I can't find reliable info on it. Apple also seems limited on volume as many reviews have noted, so that might account for power draw as well, can't confirm that. Apple's dongle also does not go as high on the bitrate, so it's a bit unfair anyway, but I wanted a reference. Not directly related, but the Apple dongle does not give me "quality build" vibes. It's probably the thinnest and flimsiest feeling piece of wire I own now. Ideally I'd like to figure out, price aside, what the best combo of quality, power draw, and size are for me. I probably can't expect the highest quality to have a low power draw, but maybe there are high quality products that manage to balance power draw and overall quality well in different brackets.
Apologies if I'm off-track here.
First time poster here, not first time visiting though. I've finally sadly and begrudgingly lost the 3.5mm port of my Galaxy S10 in a move to the S22. I've spent about 2 weeks scouring these and other forums at this point, and am finding that it's very rare that a given dongles power input is measured. The prices seem to range from $5 to, I don't know, hundreds of dollars, and the quality is all over the place as well. Most rankings go by sound quality, few by value, and non by quality x power draw. Separately, size isn't considered either, and rarely is build quality (pocketed wires tend to get crimped and abused). I've picked up an Apple dongle (not sure what chip) and a Ugreen HiFi Audio Pro (allegedly using Cirrus Logic CS43131). The latter might be a copy of the Meizu Hifi Audio Pro. Just doing back of the napkin math the latter seems to use more power than the former, and both use more power than the integrated DAC when testing on the S10. The S10 might actually have a pretty poor DAC, but I can't find reliable info on it. Apple also seems limited on volume as many reviews have noted, so that might account for power draw as well, can't confirm that. Apple's dongle also does not go as high on the bitrate, so it's a bit unfair anyway, but I wanted a reference. Not directly related, but the Apple dongle does not give me "quality build" vibes. It's probably the thinnest and flimsiest feeling piece of wire I own now. Ideally I'd like to figure out, price aside, what the best combo of quality, power draw, and size are for me. I probably can't expect the highest quality to have a low power draw, but maybe there are high quality products that manage to balance power draw and overall quality well in different brackets.
Apologies if I'm off-track here.