giorgiocis
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As titled; i found lots of posts and threads on the Dac itself but anything on which is most affordable phone with it! thanks!
As titled; i found lots of posts and threads on the Dac itself but anything on which is most affordable phone with it! thanks!
The issue in mobile phones is they're all battery and slim factor optimised, so you're not exactly getting high performance voltage thirsty components, however if you find good base sound quality, like perhaps in a Sony Walkman phone, you can connect it to a high performance portable amplifier, do not get the Fiio E6.
As titled; i found lots of posts and threads on the Dac itself but anything on which is most affordable phone with it! thanks!
So, if i'm just searching for sound quality i better consider buying a very cheap phone and spend some money on a good player?
I nabbed the Samsung Fascinate (Galaxy S) just now for $80 shipped, on eBay. Albeit used, it has the Wolfson WM8994 (or it should), and is in nice condition! I had been looking for one with a Bad ESN, since that basically kills the phone portion, because I have no intention of registering it as a phone, but since this one is perfectly fine. It just means it'll hold whatever slight resale value it has lol Plus, it's Verizon and that's even what I have, so I can always register it later!I did want to get the Stratosphere model in this series for it's slide-out keyboard, but they were fetching a bit more. All in all I think I'll probably be happy!
Wonder if the Galaxy S Player firmware works on these... Anyone know? Or a cooked ROM that is lacking phone features? heh
If you don't want the phone features, I suggest enabling airplane mode. If you enable airplane, you can still use GPS, BT, and WiFi. Just check that on boot that the airplane mode is still on. There is a ton of development for the Galaxy S, but I don't think ICS ROMs work with Voodoo. In any case, there are some very lean AOSP ROMs and kernels that work great with Voodoo. Just hop on the development forums and be prepared to be blown away by all the stuff for this phone. This phone is also easy to mod, Odin rules. If you are a sound nut, get Neutron player.
The S1 with Voodoo apparently sounds very close to the Teclast T51, which is slightly better than the Clip+.