Sennheiser HD 650 and sennheiser ie 300.You can get more power and better performance from a phone with a good dongle . What would you want any of these DAPs for that phone and dongle won't provide ?
What headphones / iem would you be using and what would be the source for your music ?
You can get more power and better performance from a phone with a good dongle . What would you want any of these DAPs for that phone and dongle won't provide ?
What headphones / iem would you be using and what would be the source for your music ?
I have the Ka3 from Fiio, it's good but I want to enjoy without more cables, I also work from the cell phone and the battery is essential
Thank you bro, and what options do you recommend?You don't see many proper measurements of DAPs but in the past one thing is apparent . The expensive ones tend to fare no better or even worse than the sensibly priced ones. I fell for it once too .
Absent of measurements id get a hiby/hidizs/shanling or similar brand that has the size , connections and features you want . Balanced out wouldn't hurt to get the voltage up for the headphones. Id aim to spend a fair bit less than half your budget . One that has the ability to do parametric eq would pay great dividends
No idea but I know A&K are renowned for being all style no substance .Thank you bro, and what options do you recommend?
The phone-player does not have to be your regular voice phone. The voice function is ancillary.Love having my DAP, can go out for a walk and leave the blasted phone at home.
Pardon my french but, phones + dongles are dangly (cumbersome). Also, a DAP can be a player and a desktop dac/amp solution at the same time when plugged with USB or using lossless bluetooth.The phone-player does not have to be your regular voice phone. The voice function is ancillary.
I own a smallish, affordable DAP, a Hiby R3 Saber for anything out and about. Drives all my IEMs, including my Etys effortlessly way beyond levels I usually enjoy and sounds pretty good to my ears, even compared to my other, more expensive, 'dangly' gear. Regarding higher end, more expensive (heavier and larger) DAPs; wherever I move around there's always some noise, be it from transportation, traffic, people, wind, you name it and just for that reason I couldn't care less about the last couple dB of potential sonic advantages of such a thing, at least not somewhere out there. YMMV.Pardon my french but, phones + dongles are dangly (cumbersome).
Pardon my french but, phones + dongles are dangly (cumbersome).
wherever I move around there's always some noise, be it from transportation, traffic, people, wind, you name it and just for that reason I couldn't care less about the last couple dB of potential sonic advantages of such a thing, at least not somewhere out there. YMMV.
Yeah, I see the appeal from the smaller ones. I would still get the JM21 if I didn't have an older smartphone though, it's too neat and cute to pass.The FiiO JM21 appears smartphone size to me? (one inch shorter than an average smartphone). And these (PEQ) dongles below are not "dangly" in the least (imo).
You could even have a QX5K in one pocket and play via BT from the phone in the other pocket. I don't see the big difference, but whatever floats your boat.
To whom or what post are you replying?So, the Hi-Fi industries sales pitch is a 'complete con' ? Okie Dokie....Glad that Samsung Ultra can take my 1TB of music via the storage slot and I can plug my headphones into the socket.