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15 July 2020
Dismal battery life and poorly thought out buttons, but solid SQ and super portable
Pros:
- Great form factor: pocket and hand friendly
- Decent amount of built-in storage, plus microSD slot
- 120 volume levels (Android otherwise has only 15)!
- Uses a USB-C port rather than a proprietary connector (as previous models did)
- Runs Android, including Google Play Store. So:
--You can add pretty much every streaming service!
--You can use any of a multitude of great apps for playback of locally-stored music, including some which can play more audio formats than Sony's own app, and some which can output bit-perfect audio via the USB port (e.g., Neutron, USB Audio Player Pro).
Neutral: sound quality. It seems fine but I honestly hear no obvious difference between this and my phone or my $150 DAP. I have nothing negative to say, I just don't hear anything to justify the price.
Cons:
- Poor battery life. Challenging to get even 10 hours of use in Airplane Mode, and leaving WiFi on changes the battery life from "poor" to "utterly appalling."
- Buttons are flush with device, nearly impossible to operate easily by feel. But: a cheap ~$12 plastic case will both protect the device and add nice big bumps over the buttons. Yay.
- Tiny screen means that many apps that _technically_ work, are not fun or easy to use.
- Some apps don't like this device. Can't use Plex because essential elements of the interface get cut off.
-You cannot install or run the Roon client on this. Period.
- Preloaded with bloatware you are unlikely to want on a DAP; not removable.
- No biometric unlocking. It's an Android device linked to your Google account, so it needs to be secure--don't make me enter a code just to change my playlist!
- USB port is awkwardly located on side of device; impractical to connect headphones via an in-line DAC, which you might want to do to get better digital to analog conversion.
- Won't recognize microSD card unless formatted within the device. Cards that worked effortlessly in my other DAP (a Hidizs AP80) and in 2 Android phones would not be recognized by the Sony.
- Can't load music except via cable connection. I tried ejecting the microSD card and inserting it into my Mac (works dandy with my other microSD cards as used in my other devices)--card was unreadable, and the effort to read it seems to have corrupted it, forcing me to reformat it.
- Loading music via cable is so slow I just want to kill myself.