Thank you for the feedback. This is kind of confusing. I thought fully utilizing the DAC required player support to drive the ESS chip. (What is meant by last sentence in 1st paragraph? https://www.head-fi.org/threads/lg-v20-sound-quality.816024/page-209#post-13787760) The HiFi icon means...

Looking for a music player. LG's doesn't support ReplayGain and its interface has shortcomings. My use case is listening to music straight out of the phone via the headphone jack, i.e. not using USB DAC. What is the best music player alternative, preferably one optimally using the DAC given my...