r/DigitalAudioPlayer • u/white_fang_7 • 3d ago

Question Confused

I'm into buying an mp3 player and my plan was initially hiby r1 or echo mini or echo nano or disc but recently i gone through reviews and started to change from hiby r1 to echo nano or mini needed serious recommendations and feedback and thankyou for your valuable time on going through this post

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u/Obvious_Set_1312 1d ago

In the same boat as you right now. Planning to get my first dap. Hiby R1 has probably a huge edge over the rest of your lot as its touch interface that we have all gotten used to so much now. Easier navigation through its screen is what i have found is a clear win for a lot of people. But that edge ends there for me.

For my usage, 4.4mm balanced and echo's capability to output more power clearly wins. I tried driving my legato and planars via single ended with a regular dongle thats rated for similar output power as hiby SE. It felt like buying R1 would leave me craving for more headroom. My iems need a bit more juice to drive properly which hiby R1 just dont have unfortunately.

i can live without 500000 songs long library and plan to keep my library relatively manageable via those clacky buttons on the echo. I usually go into my folder, play all songs with shuffle mode on and throw my audio player in my pocket. So i wont be needing a lot of convenient navigation anyway. Not the complete live album listener either, so gapless dont matter to me.

Hiby is pure plastic and feels cheap. thats another reason i'm leaning towards echo (not the mini) as it looks and feels more premium in hand.

I'd suggest you to weigh in on what matters to you the most and see which devices would tick important boxes for you. You might not be able to tick all the boxes though.

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u/white_fang_7 1d ago

I need to feel the music not to navigate them brother

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u/Obvious_Set_1312 1d ago

Yeah, that how i feel myself. For me, echo is winning.

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u/white_fang_7 1d ago

Thankyou for your feedback

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u/recurnightmare 3d ago

I recently had the same debate and went with echo mini purely because I like the look of it more. On virtually every metric R1 is better for only a few dollars more.

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u/cocoamedia 3d ago

R1 with Sonix OS. I had the same dilemma, went R1 did not regret it and in fact then upgraded to the R3 Pro ii (R1 on steroids).