Man, this is one amazing device, I've been using this for about 2 weeks now I guess I haven't really checked that but yeah. I have come to love this little device because of the reason everyone is buying this nowadays. Mainly because of its DAC functionality. The RETRO NANO is a bit expensive than this, and this being able to replace even the NANO as a even cheaper DAC is amazing. Nonetheless I never really used the DAC functionality that much. Few caveats though, well tbh its only one caveat that I personally recognise because I forgot that this is after all a retro device. No smooth transition betweek tracks was a bummer honestly, but as this was the "echoes" of the past and not a modern device, I accepted it like that.
In this era of smartphone BS, man this is a refresher. This interface, the EQ and the way to listen to this, and the DAMN WEIGHT! thats the most important part of it tbh. Those $60+ DAPs are all heavy and bulky as fuck, ugh. This is a lightweight Hifi DAP that can play FLACs man, this is some real shit I tell ya.
Nonetheless, I got the black one, because every device I own is black (Tbh there was nothing other than black). I am thinking of getting a cover and protector soon, but they sure are expensive, so that has to wait until the end of this month, I mean december.
The menus are tbh cumbersome, but when you get used to it, it's your own paradise. You feel old- I mean young again ! I follow the typical Artist album structure in my folders, and I even navigate the same way in the library folder of this device. The album art for some reason doesn't work for all songs, tbh its more like it doesn't work at all for songs that doesn't have lyrics with them, real confusing. Or perhaps I have some metadata issues with the albums that the echo mini not show art of.
Hmm, I didn't talk about the buttons at all did I? Oh well they are buttons as you know, there is a power button obviously and its startup time is kind of slow, but I don't mind it that much, I think the startup things take too much time because of the startup animation itself, I might someday find a way to disable it... wait do they even open source the software that is even running on this device? I don't know of that but if so, nice. There is a `< >` button that bends both ways, you know right? Anyways that's both your volume up and down `<` is up `>` is down, these are on press, on hold for like 2 seconds is the `<` previous track, `>` next track button. Next is the play/pause button which I press the most obviously, and tbh its easier than pausing on your smartphone or smt. As my IEMs have the Gold 784 cables without microphone because that's kind of just an extra bullshit that I'll never personally need at all. When I am on the go, I just grab my pocket, press the pause button, and I am back to reality. The next two buttons are for navigation, but who gives a fuck- I mean okay, this is a settings button and back button. The settings button changes functionality depending on the submenu which is perfectly fine, its not that hard to get used to that kind of thing. Programmers be programming. The buttons are really damn intuitively designed not going to lie. Good functionality choices.
I'd give this device a whole; mini "echo" out of the world.
Thanks for reading yet another log ! Goodbye for another day.