5 Must Have Digital Audio Player | Must Have DAPs 2024

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It’s totally stupid to buy any of these in 2023 or in future .

Just buy a good mid range smart phone , Apple Music Lossless plan or any other equivalent plan , a type c to 3.5mm Jack , and chifi kz/7Hz/CCA normal price wired IEM = you are good to go = music quality more than a human ear can afford to hear 😂

Zune hd still sounds amazing on custom in ear monitors

How did the m11 make this list, yet the first m15 didnt?

ESS dacs are just not my cup of tea anymore. I used to think they were the best for the price till i moved to Japan and a REAL AUDIOPHILE showed me not only why they suck but also why the AKM dacs is on top.

Daps are overpriced unreasonable. it lacks no many components of smartphone that makes smartphone expensive, audio circuit should not be so expensive. these audiophile branded shit are so expensive, you can buy best headphone, good studio monitors, good amp (if passive monitors) and sound card and will be under budget vs "audiophile" amp or whatever. Getting good headphones should be enough for better experience for portable devices. and it does not make huge experience just play wav and flac in Beyerdinamics / Sennhiser headhones.

Sony walkman is for hip hop rap and r&B not for rock

M11 is shit - battery drains and cannot turn on the brick. Garbage

Great Review! I have older Sony nw-wm1z and sound quality is amazing. Looking to upgrade to Sony nw-wm1zm2 for the 3rd party app support. You have reviewed some of the best dap players on the market, very informative 😊

I realize commenting this on a channel like this one is like a duck choosing to float along pirhana-infested waters, but what's the difference between one of these devices and simply using one's phone to play audio files or stream music? Does it mostly have to do with how the audio is processed and output, and is that difference only something you'll be able to hear on a higher-end set of headphones or speakers, or is there something else to it I don't understand?

Nice review.

you failed to mention the retail price of these "top" players, as they are so priced out of reach for normal folks.

These daps aren’t the best daps you can buy, wrong caption for the video, these r just good daps but not the best ones out there….

These aren't the best. They may be the best affordable digital audio players, but they sure aren't the best in my subjective opinion.

I just got the new Astell&Kern 35! Very good! Love the fact that the only button/knob you need is the volume!

You said Hiby r6 III in the video but in the timeline you wrote Hiby r2 and also in the video details.

how do these devices compare to Shanling m0 Pro? I am planning on getting another one