[Hal Rockwell]

intereferences due to possible poor shielding design in the meizu hifi non pro is a very good reason to not buy it, but i'd investigate a bit to check if it was not a single feedback caused by a faulty unit because shielding is the basic feature you need in an dac and it is very improbable that meizu engineers ****ed this up.

note that dd tc35 has the same CS42L42 chip as musiland mu1 but there may be differences in implementation.

anyway exploring different upgrade paths is a good strategy, please share back in a few weeks what was (at similar upgrade cost) the biggest difference to your ear between 1/ upgrading your dac and 2/ trying a different iem sound signature

How is the TC35 has the same DAC as the Musiland MU1?

 

[amanieux]

How is the TC35 has the same DAC as the Musiland MU1?

you are confusing dd hifi tc35B (the one you are showing) and dd electronic tc35 that was the one that was recommended in the link in the previous page

 

[jeejack]

I just ordered tempotec sonata hd and an adapter cable from 3.5mm to 2.5mm. It 's my first dongle. For usual listening i use Fiio M9 and Btr5.

 

[Gioacchino]

I just ordered tempotec sonata hd and an adapter cable from 3.5mm to 2.5mm. It 's my first dongle. For usual listening i use Fiio M9 and Btr5.

I wanted to understand the difference between a dongle and a dac / amp like the FiiO BTR5 or as an altribdac amp of the same price as the dongle, only the size and comfort change, or the dongles generally at the same price sound worse, they are totally ignorant on this subject. . Thank you

 

[jeejack]

I will let you know from my point of view. If you search the forum you will find the answer

 

[amanieux]

what driver must we install on an android phone to benefit from a external usb dac on every app? i have meizu hifi pro and with neutron installed i get the amplification in the neutron player but i loose it as soon as i go in another app like youtube for example ( by loosing the amplification i mean i still get audio on the meizu dac jack plug but level drop to the eaxct same level of my phone internal dac when plugged in the phone's jack (as if the analog audio was no longer coming from the meizu dac but from the phone internal dac but rerouted via the usbc cable ). it is very noticeable because my phone dac is only about 20mW so it is about 4x lower volume than the meizu pro.

 

[felix3650]

what driver must we install on an android phone to benefit from a external usb dac on every app? i have meizu hifi pro and with neutron installed i get the amplification in the neutron player but i loose it as soon as i go in another app like youtube for example ( by loosing the amplification i mean i still get audio on the meizu dac jack plug but level drop to the eaxct same level of my phone internal dac when plugged in the phone's jack (as if the analog audio was no longer coming from the meizu dac but from the phone internal dac but rerouted via the usbc cable ). it is very noticeable because my phone dac is only about 20mW so it is about 4x lower volume than the meizu pro.

You can't install any driver as none exists. The specialized apps use their own custom internal driver to access a usb dac directly.
On all other apps the audio gets always routed to android's internal audio interface which resamples and doesn't fully use the dac.

 

[amanieux]

You can't install any driver as none exists. The specialized apps use their own custom internal driver to access a usb dac directly.
On all other apps the audio gets always routed to android's internal audio interface which resamples and doesn't fully use the dac.

is there a specialized app that let you fully use the dac on any app using system audio such as youtube app for example. are some of these specialzed app free ? i tried neutron but i only get full volume while in neutron app if i switch from neutron to youtube then volume is divide by 5 and even when i switch back from youtube to neutron my volume in neutron remains one fifth of what it was before switching. thanks

 

[steelglam]

I just got a new Samsung phone and did not realize it no longer had a 3.5mm headphone jack. I need an adapter in a pinch. I ultimately would like a Meizu HiFi, but in the short-term, I need something that will arrive in the mail faster (the Meizu will be shipping from China). And something that does not have the volume issue of the Apple adapter.

Any suggestions for an easily-acquired, decent sounding, Android-compatible (no volume issues), shipping-from-the-US adapter that I can acquire while I wait for the Meizu?

 

[amanieux]

I just got a new Samsung phone and did not realize it no longer had a 3.5mm headphone jack. I need an adapter in a pinch. I ultimately would like a Meizu HiFi, but in the short-term, I need something that will arrive in the mail faster (the Meizu will be shipping from China). And something that does not have the volume issue of the Apple adapter.

Any suggestions for an easily-acquired, decent sounding, Android-compatible (no volume issues), shipping-from-the-US adapter that I can acquire while I wait for the Meizu?

be wary i have volume problem with meizu hifi pro on my sony phone.

 

[felix3650]

is there a specialized app that let you fully use the dac on any app using system audio such as youtube app for example. are some of these specialzed app free ? i tried neutron but i only get full volume while in neutron app if i switch from neutron to youtube then volume is divide by 5 and even when i switch back from youtube to neutron my volume in neutron remains one fifth of what it was before switching. thanks

Afaik no. The only ones to fully take advantage of the dac I know are UAPP, Hiby Music, Fiio Music, Neutron, Onkyo HiFi (not all dacs work with it).
Regarding the issue you're having, it probably has to do with the internal volume control of the Meizu dongle. I have no such issue with my iBasso DC01. I use the iBasso UAC software it comes with for a finer volume control (64 steps hardware volume control).

 

[noknok23]

is there a specialized app that let you fully use the dac on any app using system audio such as youtube app for example. are some of these specialzed app free ? i tried neutron but i only get full volume while in neutron app if i switch from neutron to youtube then volume is divide by 5 and even when i switch back from youtube to neutron my volume in neutron remains one fifth of what it was before switching. thanks

There is some hack available on XDA dev forum you can find but you need root and a specific android. I hope android dev will do something about it. Its quite ridiculous how poorly implemented USB DAC is at the moment. There is no issues like that on Apple phones AFAIK.

 

[steelglam]

be wary i have volume problem with meizu hifi pro on my sony phone.

Well, that is not good!

I am thinking of just ordering the Samsung adapter, since I would imagine it would have no problems. But the sound quality is supposed to be poor, from what I understand.

 

[amanieux]

Well, that is not good!

I am thinking of just ordering the Samsung adapter, since I would imagine it would have no problems. But the sound quality is supposed to be poor, from what I understand.

i regret not going for bluetooth receiver instead of usb dac no issue with volume there

 

[steelglam]

i regret not going for bluetooth receiver instead of usb dac no issue with volume there

Yeah, none of my headphones are Bluetooth, so that is not an option for me.