I really want to get one since 11/11 has good d eals on them, but I’m not sure if I need one.

For those of you who have one, what DAP do you use? Do you think it’s worth it?

I’m not going to buy one for purported claims of better sound quality or whatever; it would mainly be a convenience thing / separating out my phone from vs my music (like a dedicated iPod).

  • tubularfool@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I bought an Astell & Kern SR35 recently, so I didn’t have to keep messing around with converting my FLACs to ALAC or AAC and using bloody iTunes to get my music on to my phone.

    Previously I was able to fit my lossless library onto my 512Gb phone when converted down to AAC, but I now I just have a 1Tb SD in the DAP which is synced with my local digital library (Roon) and the A&K works great.

    Battery life is pretty decent, it is very small and pocketable and has plenty of power to drive my IEMS and Open Backed cans. Works with Roon & Tidal too when needed.

    I have a “FreeSync” job setup on my media PC and very few weeks I push the latest library to the SD card and off we go.

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    …to add, it was kind of nice to come full circle! I bought my very first “big boy” DAP back In 2003 and it was an iRiver H120. I still have it and it still works, so coming back to Astell & Kern 20 years later (iRiver became A&K) tickled me.

    • Muttywango@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Fellow H120 enjoyer here with many happy memories of that chunky boi. Crazy to think that now we’re talking about 1 terabyte DACs, although a 512GB card in my Shanking M0 is adequate for my needs.