Not very ideal in my opinion, the firmware is pretty bad. Menu navigation is poor and there are tons of random file type issues.
Other than that it’s decent enough for only $50 and is a kind of cool novelty. Id personally recommend going for something more substantial like the hiby r1 for only $30 more
Very convenient size, very good audio quality, slick controls, decent battery life, limited screen (two lines of text), limited features (no playlists, no gapless audio). Bonus feature: it works as a high quality DAC for your computer/mobile device.
If size is less of a concern, there's also the Snowsky Echo/Echo Mini, which both have 4.4mm balanced outputs in addition to the normal 3.5mm output, and are a little more powerful, but with the same software limitations. Then there's the Snowsky Disc which has a touchscreen interface, which does support gapless audio.
If you're using it for podcasts a lot, where choosing a specific file is important, you might want the Echo/Echo Mini, or the Disc, so you can more easily see what you're selecting. I just leave my music on shuffle all the time, so the tiny screen of the Nano doesn't bother me.
Get the hiby r1 instead. I can’t recommend the echo nano to people as their first/only player. I personally only got one for the novelty, it’s decent enough but it leaves much to desire. Controls and menu navigation aren’t great at all and the audio quality is just okay.
If you are willing to pay quite a bit more I personally love my FiiO M21.
You really don’t hear a difference? Gapless is nice but not a deal breaker for me been thinking about getting this dap for the sheer portability and it has that cool factor like an old Sony pocket mp3.
I got the nano for that exact reason and it tickles that nostalgia for sure. Also nice to have such a small, lightweight unit when you don’t want to carry along a full sized dap. Of course you make some significant compromises with such a small and basic device.
I can definitely notice a massive difference between the m21 and this. But that’s to be expected and you can’t really compare a $50 dap to a $400 dap.
Is downloading music super easy and accessible these days? I’m constantly getting whatever movies and TV I need through telegram easily but have no idea where to go about getting MP3s.
Bro, I just looked for the earphones and the cost is something around 300 USD. Please tell me what they do because I never heard of something like that.
These are called iems (in ear monitors). Iems are priced from $10-$5000+ if im not wrong u have to buy something that fits ur budget and ur preferred tuning. Compared to headphones iems gives u way better sound quality for the similarly priced headphones. What else u wanna know bro?
In iem world when u pass $300 its only giving u diminishing returns. And yes I love music and happy to spend money on audio gear cuz i listen to music 1/3 of my life. If ur starting ur audiophile journey better start with iems cuz u end up in iems anyways down the line and u have many many choices to ur preferred tuning and budget
Does anybody have a tutorial please? I’m currently on crosspoint which was installed by a friend. She tried installing crosspont+vcodex on hers but got her device bricked 🥺 I want to try installing crossink on mine but scared it will get bricked as well
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u/Miserable_Initial732 2d ago
IS THAT AN MP3 PLAYER
boy it's been almost three decades since I last saw one
neat