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Hands On With The Hidizs AP30 Music Boy; A Game Boy-Inspired Music Player With Audiophile Ambitions in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] Uebercomplicated@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

Fear of humanoid robots spurs human workers to strike at Hyundai auto factory in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] Uebercomplicated@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

The ionic 5 is really good, imho

Windows 10 support quietly extended until Oct 2027, as users reject Windows 11 in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] Uebercomplicated@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 months ago

Fyi, Reaper and Bitwig both have excellent, native Linux support. If you're willing to re-learn a DAW, both of those are great choices. Reaper is by far the best mixing & mastering DAW out there, IMHO. Bitwig is great for composition and has awesome, intuitive modulation features, as well as great stock plugins and MPE support.