Obscure Chinese DAPs

[EMPORIUS]

hello! Do you try a combination of power and volume +/- ?

Press the power button and hold it for a longer time.

 

[zaicopx]

Press the power button and hold it for a longer time.

hello! Do you try a combination of power and volume +/- ?

I've tried to press the power button longer for about 5 -10 seconds and it doesn't work. As well as the combination of power and volume + / - and next, they all won't turn on my t3.
Do I have to go to a service technician to disassemble and repair it?

 

[Escudos999]

I've tried to press the power button longer for about 5 -10 seconds and it doesn't work. As well as the combination of power and volume + / - and next, they all won't turn on my t3.
Do I have to go to a service technician to disassemble and repair it?

Try holding down power button for 15 seconds with charger on and plugged into player. A bit random, but it once worked with one of my DAPs.

 

[Slime00]

Hello guys, did someone tried those 4 inches mini smartphones which are available on Aliexpress for around 50$?
Would they be any worse than products like Ruizu Z80? Especially to be used with a type c DAC?

For example, I've seen the Cubot J20 which has Android 12 (audio players are often stuck in 8.1), type C, removable battery (which is also bigger), obviously Bluetooth, sd expansion and being a phone it supports a sim card which can be used for online streaming services (tidal for me), only doubt would be otg, some websites state it supports it, others no, but same doubt comes for z80, both have a 3.5mm jack which seems to use Mediatek's internal DAC... So why the latter would be the better option?

Just trying to understand as I'm interested into buying something similar (cheap 4 inches android player) and would like to get the best option for the money.

 

[BX700]

I used a Soyes 4" phone with a dongle as a DAP for ages: worked well. Greater utility than a DAP tbh. Tidal and Spotify worked fine on mobile data.

 

[Slime00]

Thank you for your reply! Exactly, it feels like the most practical solution to have good audio quality while having lots of versatility and without having huge and heavy devices around.
I'm attracted by this cubot because it has removable battery, Android 12 (which means more years of supported app updates, I believe they already killed Android 7 so 8 may have 1 or 2 years left) and should also be more power-efficient by having a lower res screen and a quad core processor instead of an octa-core, if someone has it and confirms it supports Type-C DACs then I'll pull the trigger!

 

[Old_Snake]

Is there a list of GOATed daps that can be sourced from Aliexpress?

 

[Usr7530]

Thank you for your reply! Exactly, it feels like the most practical solution to have good audio quality while having lots of versatility and without having huge and heavy devices around.
I'm attracted by this cubot because it has removable battery, Android 12 (which means more years of supported app updates, I believe they already killed Android 7 so 8 may have 1 or 2 years left) and should also be more power-efficient by having a lower res screen and a quad core processor instead of an octa-core, if someone has it and confirms it supports Type-C DACs then I'll pull the trigger!

Sounds like a good idea ! I own an LG G5 and i've only bought this one precisely because of its swappable battery...
You can get these brand new for around 180$ right now ! I've bought mine on amazon for 169$ a few months ago...

 

[numon]

what is zishan z5 android apk feature mean?i undertand that phone connects and collects playlists and song names to phone then you control songs, select them from phone and listen zishan z5?so z5 will have touch screen feature in this way ,right?i hope someoe give exact answer.thanks.

 

[crabdog]

I just published my review of the HiFi Walker H20 Pro. It has dual Sabre DACs and a transparent, crisp sound signature. The UI isn't great but the audio quality is.

 

[Wahid]

Here we go: Custom firmware for TempoTec V1/V1-A based on v1.5: link
(someone please create a dedicated topic for this player)

merry christmas and hny to everyone.
Enjoy.

What does it do? I love the v1, I get better performance from my dongle dac then on anything else I have tried

 

[Montree]

What does it do? I love the v1, I get better performance from my dongle dac then on anything else I have tried

Quote from Vortex:

- Highly optimized graphics, font and binaries for maximum speed;
- English and Russian language strings was corrected;
- Music Library limit was increased up to 65535 songs.

I didn’t find any of these really worth having and I eventually had to restore the original OS as I got a few glitches. There’s nothing that has any effect on the sound.

 

[Wahid]

Quote from Vortex:

- Highly optimized graphics, font and binaries for maximum speed;
- English and Russian language strings was corrected;
- Music Library limit was increased up to 65535 songs.

I didn’t find any of these really worth having and I eventually had to restore the original OS as I got a few glitches. There’s nothing that has any effect on the sound.

OK thanks for that info.. Very useful indeed

 

[Wahid]

Quote from Vortex:

- Highly optimized graphics, font and binaries for maximum speed;
- English and Russian language strings was corrected;
- Music Library limit was increased up to 65535 songs.

I didn’t find any of these really worth having and I eventually had to restore the original OS as I got a few glitches. There’s nothing that has any effect on the sound.

Do you find the performance of your dac better ion V1 in any way, then from other sources, in your experience? To me it's so noticibly better, I wonder if it's psychoacoustics...

 

[Wahid]

Hello guys, did someone tried those 4 inches mini smartphones which are available on Aliexpress for around 50$?
Would they be any worse than products like Ruizu Z80? Especially to be used with a type c DAC?

For example, I've seen the Cubot J20 which has Android 12 (audio players are often stuck in 8.1), type C, removable battery (which is also bigger), obviously Bluetooth, sd expansion and being a phone it supports a sim card which can be used for online streaming services (tidal for me), only doubt would be otg, some websites state it supports it, others no, but same doubt comes for z80, both have a 3.5mm jack which seems to use Mediatek's internal DAC... So why the latter would be the better option?

Just trying to understand as I'm interested into buying something similar (cheap 4 inches android player) and would like to get the best option for the money.

Cubot is actually decent, too expensive in my country, cheaper to buy shanling m1s. Give Ruizu a couple more years the android player will be Allright, non android like a58 is pretty good now