A tiny Linux-powered Hi-Fi player with physical controls, a whale on its back, Tetris inside, and far more personality than I expected.
  • Übercomplicated@lemmy.mlEnglish
    41·
    6 days ago

    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.
    • zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      1·
      4 days 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.