I think you're in for a lot of experimenting if you are determined to shift the sound profile by making physical changes. My best guess is that if the denser leather pads made it less boomy at the low end, you might try foam pads that are less dense than the originals. I find that I can achieve...

Here's a review: https://goodereader.com/blog/reviews/hisense-touch-music-player-hands-on-review There are videos at the bottom of the page. Apparently the built-in speakers are amazing. On the negative side, there is no SD card storage. The device is 128GB and only about 100GB free with the OS...

I just got one of these and it's endgame for me. Absolutely fantastic sound with that spacious openness I really enjoy. It's also very compact. I can't imagine ever wanting to listen to a phone again, though I suppose I'll have to in certain situations.

I just got the Plenue V and it really is a phenomenal player. The equalizer and effects give you so much control over the sound. You can tune things in just how you like them. So I'd say the player and headphones make for a very nice combination.

I got these on ebay from Japan a few years ago because of this thread and I listen to them all the time. They have a nice spacious sound with enough high end and solid bass. That being said, the comments about them making your ears a little sore after a while are spot on. I'm generally using...

The FiiO can be Rockboxed. That's always a plus in my book.

Mine is no longer rockboxed. It stopped booting from Rockbox, but will boot from the Sansa firmware. The internet tells me that the issue is probably corrupted memory from over-use. I suspect that's true. Rockbox had a really nice "sleep" feature: you could set the device to always turn off...

Still have my rockboxed clip plus, bought in 2013. It resumes play beautifully. When people started complaining about the jack issues, I got a little extension cord. Hopefully I'll be able to solder in a new battery when the time comes, but it's still holding a decent charge for now.

Yeah, for sure. I've just noticed that most of the negative reviews that I've seen have to do with some defect or another. I've put mine up for sale. I find the punchy bass really fatiguing.

Some of the bad reviews reflect quality control: I received two units with issues before getting a trouble-free unit.

  Harold?

Red Green would love you.

  I know, right? But I'm starting to lean toward a one-device solution again.

The build quality and sound are both good. The sound of the AGPTEK H01 is aggressive and precise. It's very detailed, with a lot of attack (bass sounds really punch). On certain pieces of music, with a lot of bass, the attack can be quite fatiguing. Let me put it this way: this is not the...

  Is the failure caused by plugging/unplugging cables? If so, why not buy a 10cm long 3.5mm extension cord. $1.49 on eBay. Just leave it in and never unplug from the clip again.   If the cause is stress (pressure on the cable/plug end putting pressure on the jack internals), would a right...

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I wouldn't worry too much. Amazon has a great returns policy. The Xuelin ihifi780 looks good. I was interested in it too. Sent from mTalk

I have the H01. It has more detail and more contrast between instruments (if that makes sense) than my rockboxed Santa Clip+. I think it sounds better than any of my phones, but not as good as my 1990s Panasonic Shockwave CD player, which has the best sound of anything I own. I agree that it...

I haven't done this with a clip+ but I did it a couple of years ago with a cheap tablet. My advice: since the battery leads are soldered to the board, cut them off as close to the original battery as you can (leaving yourself as much wire coming off the motherboard as you can) and just splice...

No problem. I have AAC, MP3, and as of today, FLAC files. I'm going to re-rip my CD's to FLAC. I don't know if it's a placebo effect, but they seem to sound better than my .m4a and .mp3 files.

Hey thanks. Much appreciated! Now... this or the AGPtEK for a third go-round? Decisions, decisions....

Bought a set of these based on the comments in this thread. I haven't burned them in, but I'm really enjoying them. Thanks to everyone who wrote up their impressions!

I'm interested in this DAP and curious to learn which lossy formats are supported.   I found this eBay listing, which states that the device will play AAC files, but I haven't seen that information anywhere else. I've got a lot of iTunes .m4a files, because my wife's all in with The Fruit...

I've experienced this after deleting files on a micro-SD card that I use with my Sansa Clip+.   Here's what was happening for me: my laptop (running Linux) was not actually deleting the files, but putting them into a hidden trash folder, which the Clip+ would then index and play.   The...