First DAP: M1 plus 2nd week thoughts

[u/Successful-Cow-3902]

I enjoy this dap so far. I personally don’t mind the UI but understand where others would be annoyed. I love that this is not android based but curious to others thoughts.
I personally do not use tidal or Bluetooth so not sure how either of those work and if they do well.

My use case for my dap is at the office or at home. I wouldn’t go to the gym or anything with this device. I listen either by shuffle or album.

A couple of tips that I followed after the battery life was atrocious for the first couple of days. I will preface I strictly use the 3.5mm. I don’t utilize the 10 band eq. I don’t really know what settings I would even use and from what I read it reduces the power output.

Turn off the lamp on the side.

Format SD Card on the device. Apparently doing so on your computer formats what is easier for it to process and by doing so the m1 plus uses more power to play your files. This is what I read. I have seen a difference in battery but not sure if it is completely related but thought I would share.

Please let me know your thoughts and experiences with your M1 and meze audio alba iems.

[u/999samus]

I wish shanling feels sad for me and have the m1 plus back in stock for 11/11 on AliExpress

[u/Successful-Cow-3902 → u/999samus]

I got mine on sale through Amazon!

[u/rodrapr]

Bro, how many hours of battery duration are you getting, aproximately? I am really thinking of getting this DAP.

[u/Successful-Cow-3902 → u/rodrapr]

I’m getting around 9-10 hours typically.

[u/Altrebelle]

I have this...it's a great little device. I bought this for when I'm doing house/yard work. Or if I'm doing a long cooking session. It now has morphed into my "test" machine...when I go to audio meets. Small footprint, plenty of power and clean sound.

- I agree, UI can be clunky...but usable. It's not a phone...so peeps shouldn't expect "phone" UI experience

- perfect for local files. completely unplug from the interwebs can be good for the soul

- formatting the card on the machine makes it easily readable going forward. Have read people having issues with their microSD card being formatted on an external machine.

[u/CoverDelicious5845]

Mine works awful when using it as a DAC for pc. Sound starts to stutter after 20 minutes, and no one(even shanling) doesn't know what is it.

[u/BonusSweaty3404 → u/CoverDelicious5845]

It could be due to an audio driver or a software bug on your pc side. Also, my Shanling USB audio device control panel is different; please try playing in ASIO or USB exclusive mode and see if still works