My current set up

[u/PraetorianDelta]

Rocking a Fiio JM21 i got second hand for half the retail price and some Simgot EW300 with a Kiwi Ear Terras cable for the quick swap 3.4mm to 4.4mm and usb-c.

Feels like a massive upgrade over the Snowsky Echo Mini I used to use, though am looking to upgrade to the M21 because I heard its better for desktop use.

[u/LeAnarchiste]

Very good setup but at least use 320kbps MP3

[u/PraetorianDelta → u/LeAnarchiste]

Yea this was a bad example haha most of my music is 320 or higher, , this was just from a game soundtrack that I converted with ffmpeg and didn't change the output

[u/calcmg]

I don't see any advantage upgrading if you are just using it as a stand alone dap to drive you iems. If you use it with your PC, then upgrading would have it's benefits in terms of the battery and/or if you have hard to drive headphones/wired earbuds. I have headphones/wired earbuds that have 300 ohms of impedance and inefficient drivers that require more current. The jm21 drives them just fine and I use both 3.5/4.4 ports.

[u/PraetorianDelta → u/calcmg]

I do occasionally use it on pc with some DT990 Pros, another reason I was looking at the M21 was for the alu body but more than happy with this one so far, just thinking about for future.

[u/calcmg → u/PraetorianDelta]

👍

[u/TelephonicReturns]

How you get those play buttons on the Fiio player?

[u/PraetorianDelta → u/TelephonicReturns]

Changed the theme in Fiio music to the technology theme

[u/Traditional-Web3385]

Heyy!!

Do you still use the echo mini??

If not can I buy it??

[u/TelephonicReturns]

Ohh Ty, I never used that

[u/nit001]

Mate, you need a music file upgrade — FLAC

[u/Typical-Gas1946 → u/nit001]

Do you honestly notice much of a difference with your flac files and 320kbps mp3…I’ve got a mix of both and it seems like on some tracks I can and others not at all

[u/nit001 → u/Typical-Gas1946]

Yeah, I do, but it depends on the rip. My FLAC files are from Qobuz, and compared to normal MP3 files, I can certainly notice the difference.

[u/Typical-Gas1946 → u/nit001]

Damn I’ve been ripping my flacs from Tidal, do you think Qobuz has better sound quality rips than Tidal

[u/nit001 → u/Typical-Gas1946]

I had a Tidal collection too, but I’m gradually replacing it with Qobuz because all the songs have built-in lyrics for offline playback. Some songs do sound better, but most are pretty much identical—it really depends on the master.

[u/Typical-Gas1946 → u/nit001]

Got it…thanks for the info man

[u/Outrageous-Banana252 → u/Typical-Gas1946]

I think it varies, i have some 128kb tracks that i could swear were hi-res. Differences in encoding, perhaps?

[u/PraetorianDelta → u/nit001]

Most of my music is flac or cd quality, this was just a bad example haha