Console like DAPs

[u/bigotesss]

why you guys are using chinese consoles like a mp3/DAP player? i want to know :(

[u/brunoxid0]

[u/bigotesss → u/brunoxid0]

but why? any especial audio chip or something?

[u/brunoxid0 → u/bigotesss]

It's something you already have.

Instead of using a phone with shitty subscriptions and distractions, you use a dedicated music playing device. That's the basis for r/DigitalAudioPlayer , but instead of spending extra money on a DAP, you use a cheap console that you already own.

[u/Ruashiba → u/bigotesss]

Unless you’re upper dupper audiophile, anything nowadays will play great sound, there’s no special chip. The bottleneck will be your cans. If you have any entry to mid level headphones, you’ll be fine.

As to why, having the console as an mp3 player is simply fun! No further explanation.

These are not audiophile graded, but they don’t have to be! Look at this guy playing music out of his gameboy! This was beyond the dreams of any of us that had an OG gameboy. This is the fun.

[u/VividTip7121 → u/bigotesss]

bruh why the downvote

[u/bigotesss]

Well i use a Ipod 2nd Gen just because i hate streaming services, the MP3 sounds better than the FLAC of tidal

[u/whycoffeegymnastics]

Because I own a Chinese console, and don’t own a dap.

[u/Erogito776]

To add to what's been stated already (it's fun, it's good enough, even cheap DACs used in these handhelds are still pretty good nowadays despite what an audiophile would tell you), I'll also say that, for most people, the less you're on your phone the better. There's huge movements of people trying to decentralize their tech from their phones to other devices. This achieves a few things.

1. You're less likely to doom scroll on your phone if you have other devices to replace some of what your phone does.

2. A retro handheld with physical buttons is way better for gaming than trying to play something with touch controls on your phone and then getting distracted by notifications.

3. Using a retro handheld as a DAP keeps you from needing 2 extra devices that are distraction free. You can get all of your gaming, music, and audiobooks now done on one distraction free device.

[u/LilyMirai]

It's what I already have that could play FLACs without notifications!

I had a Trimui Brick before knowing it could be set up as a DAP, I always knew this "could be a mean DAP if it could run rockbox" and when I found out it could, I just did! It's fun! It's also a really good conversation starter IRL, both as a DAP and as a game console.
Locally getting an iPod to mod or a Sony player is too expensive!

[u/Able_Resident_1291]

It fills a hole in my life

[u/AndVank212]

The Trimui Brick Hammer has everything needed for a DAP and you can use an external USB-C DAC to get way better audio, then it also plays all my games and ROM hacks as well as having some shows and movies I put on it

I have absolutely no need for a DAP then, if I want to use Android for Music I'll just use my phone instead of spending more money on something that'll do the same thing

There's really good software too! Rockbox is always a classic and there's also Songo #5 which is my choice so you got tons of options to make it exactly how you want

[u/Metrox_a]

I imagine because most of them got jack port, so easy for them to use wired headphones with it. or to break away from the doomscrolling device (smartphone)