#snowsky

So after being preeetty sure that Sony was fucking with the earphones I had bought like 3 years ago (the signal kept cutting out even when running in AAC and connection priority) I'd had enough and wanted an alternative.

I had a pair of Crinear Daybreaks that I'd bought to use with my Hiby R4 but had stopped using cause it's a brick and I thought to myself well why don't I get a DAC to use with my devices that also has Bluetooth support. After looking around I pulled the trigger on a Snowsky Retro Nano.

It supports the Bluetooth codec I needed the most which is LDAC and has support for on device EQ profiles (to to 3). It has a 4.4mm balanced output and a 3.5mm jack accordingly as well as USB C. With the USB C, you can either just charge or you can set it to auto power on when, it receives power so it's perfect for a car! You can also use it as an audio out via USB if you wanna use it as a DAC. Oh. And did I mention it has a REPLACEABLE RECHARGEABLE BATTERY?!

After getting it setup in the app and saving my EQ profile on the device I was set. It just works! The quality of LDAC is way better than anything else and the signal strength is amazing!! No more cutting out! I've paired it to my laptop which is using Linux and it all just works!

I have my own music server which I can stream high quality FLAC files from any device and they sounds great considering it's Bluetooth!

If you're a music nerd 10/10 would recommend!

As much as I enjoyed the click wheel on it, I found it too quiet and a little buggy.

I originally considered the Snowsky Echo Mini and went with the more premium version of that, the Echo. It arrived today, together with the matching leatherette case.

Look at this thing!

I'm getting kinda sick of streaming lately, what with all this A*I bullshit and weird war drone funding stuff that Spotify is puking out suddenly. I am not exactly thrilled that that was where my subscription fee was going.

So I took the plunge and decided to try and upgrade my current mp3 player - unfortunately that little Philips GoGear fella doesn't have much space, nor does it have any ability to expand said storage. It's a shame, I really love it, and I'll be using it as a music player for my car's stereo system once I've passed my driving test - but for now, I needed to get my hands on something with more oomph, so to speak. Something that had the space for my dozens of CDs, along with the ability to upgrade my storage. Trouble was, everywhere I looked was very expensive.

That was, until I found something on Vinted barely used for a tight 55 quid that I snapped up right away. Something that, until then, had been difficult to track down. It arrived yesterday, and here it is:

This is the Snowsky/Fiio Echo Mini, and DEAR GOD I love it so much. It's small, yes - but my word, does it pack a punch. This thing is incredible. So far I've got over 1000 tracks onto it without any issues whatsoever.

AND IT PLAYS FLACS!!!! For those of you who don't know, FLACs are the top dog of audio files. A lot less compression than mp3s, which leads to a better sound quality overall.

Another bonus was that because it was preowned, there was the chance that someone had already loaded music onto it, and load it they did.

Some of it was... questionable at best - ironic comedy which wasn't really my thing... but the majority of it was stuff i'd been looking for FOREVER. Radiohead's entire discography, SOAD's entire discography, a bunch of early Beatles demos and rarities, some Rolling Stones demos and rarities, special editions of albums from Eminem to Madness... it was a treasure trove and I ended up keeping most of it, but adding the obligatory Malice Mizer archives and aaaaaall of my Emo/Alternative records - plus some Rush.

I am not sponsored at all, but I cannot recommend this little thing enough if you're thinking of moving to physical media.

SNOWCLAN Leader: Cloudstar-white tom with blue eyes; deaf.

Deputy: Patchedpelt-speckled tortoiseshell tom with orange eyes Apprentice, Spotpaw

Medicine Cat: Snowsky-old white molly with blue eyes (adoptive mother to Willowkit, a lavender gray-and-white molly-kit, Dawnkit, an orange molly-kit with white spotting and a darker stripe down her back, Spotkit, a calico molly-kit, and Snowkit, a white tom-kit with faint spots) Apprentice, Bushpaw

Warriors: Lilystorm-pale gray-and-white tom with bushy fur and green eyes

Iceberry-pale blue tom with icy blue eyes

Mistleclaw-black molly with heavy white spotting and green eyes

Tansyfeather-yellow-eyed cream-and-white tom

Dandelionbreeze-yellow-and-white molly with yellow eyes

Marigoldheart-golden molly

Fleckcloud-white tom with black flecks and dark eyes

Palefang-pale cream molly Apprentice, Daypaw

Daisystream-white molly with cream splotches

Duckfeather-yellow tom

Darkflower-dark-furred molly with splotches

Apprentices: Bushpaw-bushy-furred white tom with a greenish-gray tail

Spotpaw-tortoiseshell molly with a pink ribbon around her neck; former kittypet

Daypaw-amber molly with a darker stripe down her back

Nursers: Sunheart-dilute tortoiseshell-and-white molly (has two kits: Spiritkit, a white tom-kit with pale, blind blue eyes, and Brownkit, a mainly white molly-kit with a brown stripe down her back and sparse brown spotting; nursed Snowsky's adopted kits, and is currently nursing Tigerkit, an orange molly-kit with dark stripes)

STREAMCLAN Leader: Lakestar-blue-gray tom with yellow eyes

Deputy: Doveblossom-fluffy gray molly with one blue-green eye and one golden eye

Medicine Cat: Swiftstrike-white tom with black splotches and yellow eyes Apprentice, Dockpaw

Apprentices: Dockpaw-gray molly with leaf-green eyes

Sootpaw-very dark gray tom

Graypaw-light gray molly

Slippaw-white tom

Fogpaw-blue-and-cream tortoiseshell molly with white markings and gold eyes

SPARKCLAN Leader: Bravestar-orange tom with a white muzzle and amber eyes

Deputy: Lightningthorn-yellow molly with a spiky pelt and amber eyes

Medicine Cat: Firefoot-fiery-orange tom with yellow eyes

Apprentices: Pheasantpaw-red tom

Sootpaw-dark gray molly

Ashpaw-light gray tom

Cinderpaw-dilute calico molly

SHADECLAN Leader: Blossomstar-calico molly with green eyes

Deputy: Rushblaze-brown molly with a fire-colored "blaze" marking and dark brown eyes

Medicine Cats: Lightpool-young gray molly with eyes the same color as the Moonpool Apprentice, Daisypaw

Warriors: Brokenflight-brown spotted tabby molly whose stripes look broken (Blossomstar's mate)

Apprentice: Daisypaw-cream tabby-and-white molly with green eyes

Peacepaw-white molly

“why are you scared of me”

“why do you care for me”

“when we all fall sleep”

“where do we go?”

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