03-14-2026, 01:23 PM
(03-13-2026, 12:49 AM)Polident wrote:(03-06-2026, 12:35 AM)Snoopy wrote: Anyway the Snowsky Echo arrived a week back but I had a shitty cold so I didn't bother to try it out until yesterday. First impressions are it's tiny which is good. Navigating menus can be a faff but not so bad once I got the hang of it. It has 8gb memory built in. Most of my music is in mp3 so that's plenty. It can be expanded with a memory card if I need to. I'm not going to load the thing up with hundreds of albums so it should be fine even with a little 16gb card. Sound wise it's definitely better than my phone. It has a very bright sound. Although I've had to go into the menu and change the EQ on different albums. I got it for £40 from AliExpress. It's deffo worth that. The new Geese record sounds amazing on it. I reckon I'll upgrade to a Hibby R4 when I've got some spare cash but this will do fine until then.
Hiby R1 has a slight discount and I'm still going back and forth on what to get. What I keep reading and don’t really understand is something about the Bluetooth having limited codecs in lower quality. On top of drastically reducing battery life. So the move is only wired with these cheap++ mp3 players.
tl;dr I ordered the $25 Ruizu clip clone.
Update: the $25 Ruizu clip clone seems a bit shit.
Great first impressions. Gibberish English on packaging and manual. Plug into a usb c charger that has thus far worked with everything. Didn’t work. The manual specifies you need a bad quality usb charger with usb a to usb c only. Somehow my Sansa clip from 15 years ago can charge with a 50 cent usc c to mini usb (not even micro) dongle. It arrived dead so I’ll see what’s up tomorrow.
An interesting choice. It has a physical sliding on/off switch. Yet the manual says you can turn it off/on by holding the play button for 3 seconds. It’s a feature to have multiple ways to turn it on or off.