Blanci
New Head-Fier
Just as any audiophile I've been searching on how to improve my listening experience. I've looked at a lot of traditional headphones and recently at quite a bit of good chi-fi with the Fearless S8P being my current daily driver.
My issue is as the title says mainly that I drive these mid- to upper-end IEMs with my phone, a dongle burdened iPhone 7 128gb to be exact.
How well does an iPhone 7 square up to your average entry level Walkman?
Am I missing out on some significant audio quality?
I've had a look at the offerings in the 100-250€ range I haven't really found anything that's as responsive and practical for me to use (even considering iTunes, the capacity, flac to alac conversion and even the dongle) on a daily basis.
The Walkman NW-A45R doesn't really do it for me because of the janky controls and questionable OS the same goes for the Astel and Kern Jr. which granted looks really nice but suffers from the same flaws. Reasoning from that everything below that price range is even worse and I'd only solve this by spending more money I could use on IEM upgrades.
Is there anything I could do with 200 bucks that compares in ease of use to a phone or does increase listening quality significantly?
(I've only had a look at the walkman and ak jr. haven't tested them with my iems and files)
tl;dr is it worth it to upgrade my media player from a phone to a dedicated player if I only have 200 bucks and don't like Sony's and AK's OS
My issue is as the title says mainly that I drive these mid- to upper-end IEMs with my phone, a dongle burdened iPhone 7 128gb to be exact.
How well does an iPhone 7 square up to your average entry level Walkman?
Am I missing out on some significant audio quality?
I've had a look at the offerings in the 100-250€ range I haven't really found anything that's as responsive and practical for me to use (even considering iTunes, the capacity, flac to alac conversion and even the dongle) on a daily basis.
The Walkman NW-A45R doesn't really do it for me because of the janky controls and questionable OS the same goes for the Astel and Kern Jr. which granted looks really nice but suffers from the same flaws. Reasoning from that everything below that price range is even worse and I'd only solve this by spending more money I could use on IEM upgrades.
Is there anything I could do with 200 bucks that compares in ease of use to a phone or does increase listening quality significantly?
(I've only had a look at the walkman and ak jr. haven't tested them with my iems and files)
tl;dr is it worth it to upgrade my media player from a phone to a dedicated player if I only have 200 bucks and don't like Sony's and AK's OS