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Hands On With The Hidizs AP30 Music Boy; A Game Boy-Inspired Music Player With Audiophile Ambitions (gardinerbryant.com)
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[–] 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

TLDR: digital audio player with 3.5 and 4.4 mm outputs, a Cirrus Logic CS43198 DAC, Bluetooth 5.3, and USB DAC functionality.

Pros:

  • Linux based system
  • physical volume wheel
  • looks cute and well-made
  • Bluetooth
  • good DAC
  • low THD+N: 0.0015%
  • competitive price
  • EQ, unclear if parametric EQ

Cons:

  • Kickstarter
  • only up-to 256 GB storage (my library is ≈ 550 GB)
  • low-res Bluetooth, only SBC support
  • mediocre op-amp, RT6863, only 61+61mW@32 Ohm, basically unusable for headphones
  • there's a lot of good competition, see Fiio's Echo Mini, Echo Nano, Disk, Qudelix-5K.
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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    This is really helpful, thanks. I was especially curious about the power output. I have a specific pair of headphones I use for low output devices (other than IEMs), so I'd be OK, but if it had enough power to handle more of my headphones I'd probably dive in.

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