I have found it generally better to completely switch over to mobile based music playing experience. Android + Dropbox is fairly good as an noob audiophile setu

I have found it generally better to completely switch over to mobile based music playing experience. Android + Dropbox is fairly good as an noob audiophile setup. Especially if you use Neutron or Poweramp as music players. Android now has special low latency APIs (and the Oboe library - https://developer.android.com/ndk/guides/audio/aaudio/aaudio https://developer.android.com/ndk/guides/audio/aaudio/aaudio ) Poweramp and Neutron both implement their own low latency code and are very very good. If you connect them to a USB type c (like the FiiO), they are very very good to be used with audiophile grade earphones. UAPP is the other one which boasts compatibility with all the latest dacs and audio chips ... as well as MQA decoding- https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.extreamsd.usbaudioplayerpro&hl=en_IN&gl=US https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.extreamsd.... or you can use the newer android 11 with bluetooth 5.2 and APTX adaptive (or LDAC) earphones for high quality wireless audio. Plus, you can stream them on chromecast. Is there a fundamental reason why people prefer to listen to audio on laptops versus a smartphone ?