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At the low price point, you can get a digital audio player with a human-ears-perfect DAC and a human-ears-perfect amplifier for under $100, that will feed headp

by dsr_ 5y ago

At the low price point, you can get a digital audio player with a human-ears-perfect DAC and a human-ears-perfect amplifier for under $100, that will feed headphones of sufficient quality for between $50 and $200 depending on your criteria. (And it's all portable.)

SyzygistSix 5y ago
The issue I have had is finding one with a decent interface and decent playlist making ability. Enough that I am tempted to build my own with a raspberry pi running the Exaile media player.
- dsr_ 5y ago
  If it doesn't need to be portable, that's certainly a good way to go. Note that the Allo Boss2 gets you everything except an amplifier and speakers, incluyding a Pi4, assembled, in a nice case, for $185. You might like to run Owntone (formerly forked-daapd) on whatever machine holds your storage - or anything else; the Pi can mount your storage via NFS or CIFS or basically anything else.
igornadj 5y ago
Can you share an example?
- anotherhue 5y ago
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- hipnoizz 5y ago
  You can have a look at https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php and its reviews section. This is a good site in general (there are others) if you are interested in audio reproduction topics and reviews that are supported by science, not flowery prose of reviews in so called HiFi magazines and sites.

by dsr_ 5y ago

SyzygistSix 5y ago

The issue I have had is finding one with a decent interface and decent playlist making ability. Enough that I am tempted to build my own with a raspberry pi running the Exaile media player.

dsr_ 5y ago
If it doesn't need to be portable, that's certainly a good way to go. Note that the Allo Boss2 gets you everything except an amplifier and speakers, incluyding a Pi4, assembled, in a nice case, for $185. You might like to run Owntone (formerly forked-daapd) on whatever machine holds your storage - or anything else; the Pi can mount your storage via NFS or CIFS or basically anything else.

igornadj 5y ago

Can you share an example?

anotherhue 5y ago
https://ifi-audio.com/products/go-blu/ https://ifi-audio.com/products/go-blu/ https://www.fiio.com/btr52021 https://www.fiio.com/btr52021 https://ifi-audio.com/products/zen-dac/ https://ifi-audio.com/products/zen-dac/ https://shenzhenaudio.com/products/topping-dx3pro-bluetooth-5-0-ldac-es9038q2m-dsd512-dac-nfca-headphone-amplifier-pre-amplifier https://shenzhenaudio.com/products/topping-dx3pro-bluetooth-... https://drop.com/buy/massdrop-sennheiser-hd6xx https://drop.com/buy/massdrop-sennheiser-hd6xx Worth perusing
hipnoizz 5y ago
You can have a look at https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php and its reviews section. This is a good site in general (there are others) if you are interested in audio reproduction topics and reviews that are supported by science, not flowery prose of reviews in so called HiFi magazines and sites.