And they double as mobile audio sources for other DACs and Amps (digital out and analog line out).Īt the risk of shilling my own shit too hard, I have a BTR5, iFi xCAN, Chord Mojo, and HiBy R5 up for sale on the Buy/Sell thread. The native Qobuz and Tidal (and any other app) supports offline content, you just need a big SD card. They internally work around the resampling issue, so all of their playback is bit-perfect. Good Android based DAPs (ie HiBy R5 that you mentioned) are really sweet to use. An R5 is very “portable”, whereas the R6 is starting to edge towards “transportable” (although some would be willing to pull a wagon behind them with a battery bank and tube amp to get “portable” HiFi, so this is very user dependent). A Chord Mojo isn’t very pocketable, and to me fits more in the “transportable” category: take it to the office or coffee shop, pull it out, and use it. A little BTR5 in your pocket is very “portable”. The distinction here is ease of mobility and ease of use while moving around. Something to consider is your use cases, are you looking for “portable” or “transportable”. (But on the go you’ll need local FLAC files, UAPP doesn’t allow for offline playback of Tidal or Qobuz.) So then you get into Bluetooth from your phone, which is very good (IMHO), but your tolerance / patience for this may vary. If you want bit-perfect playback you’ll need an app like UAPP to connect a dongle via USB. This definitely raises the question of your personal tolerance for Android resampling and Bluetooth codecs. Doesn’t that make a DAC/AMP basically useless and DAPs superior? But here’s the next issue: some phones (Android?) seem to resample the music that goes through their built-in USB-connections. That’s why i was also looking at phones and dongle DAC/AMPs.
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