Clothes lipstick and bags, flower pillow chocolate... It's time for gift-giving (headaches) again. The more gifts are sent, the more difficult it is to send every year, both to have new ideas and not to overturn the car, which is not an easy task for the majority of straight men. Compared with cosmetics, clothing, etc., which women know better, boys naturally understand digital products better, and it is not impossible to pick one as a gift in the areas that they are relatively good at and understand.
Hifi products, in the digital products belong to the niche category, the price is not low, at least in the novelty and sincerity is enough, the probability of "crash" is very low. And most women like to listen to songs, sending a hifi gift to improve the quality of listening, it is also practical - take a step back, in case of being "rejected", self-use is also very good, isn't it?
Of course, the first thing a girl must be "looking at the face", no matter how good the sound quality is, the appearance is equally important. In addition, in order to protect your wallet, the price should not be too expensive. So next, I will recommend 5 "alternative hifi gifts" with both appearance and sound quality, and a new price of no more than 2000.
Send earplugs – Angel Jimmy New Hana
In the thousand-yuan earbuds, Hana is almost a "face value responsibility" without suspense. From the beginning, the new brand from Dongguan has aimed at "appearance is combat strength", and this move has also been quite successful. Whether it is the 100-yuan new product "Euler" or the popular "oxygen", it is quite distinctive in design, and the two-dimensional image of Asano Tenki has also penetrated into the heart of the vast number of houses.
This time the new Hana is positioned slightly lower than oxygen, but the appearance is more stunning. The white ceramic texture of the panel is embellished with rose gold border, the typical "macho color", such a unique texture is actually made of 316 stainless steel precision carved out of the pattern groove, and then filled with white porcelain imitation enamel paint, through high temperature heating and hand polishing. Holding it in the hand will have a warm luster, and this process is not easy to remove paint, and the durability is quite good.
Of course, Hana's team of designers is not an all-American worker, and people's tuning is also very good. In terms of units, it is equipped with a high-rigid liquid crystal diaphragm with the third generation of high magnetic flux DMT technology, which has a high resolution and frequency response range in the same gear dynamic earbuds, and reduces the Q value of the 2KHz-10KHz high frequency frequency domain based on the previous version, and the tone is more delicate and smooth, clean and durable on the basis of maintaining transparency, and the sharpness is improved.
Send headphones - iron triangle M50x
If you want to send headphones, then the famous headphone brand from Japan, Iron Triangle, is the right choice. High-end wooden bowls, titanium bowls, leather bowls, medium/low-end ES mirrors, ESW/WP small wooden bowls, on the face value alone, can be a unique side. However, considering the overall cost performance, the M50x is undoubtedly the most secure choice.
The predecessor of the M50x is the famous "Good Sound Royal" headphones - M50. At present, the M50x series is also the most abundant style of the iron triangle model, there are 8 models, and the official website even prepares a separate "C bit" for it in the monitoring headset category: 4 of which are wired, 4 are wireless, divided into 5 colors of black and white, gray, orange and purple, of which orange and purple are limited editions - the limited version that Japanese brands are best at playing. There are also special editions of red, blue and dark green, but some models are out of print due to discontinuation, and the price rise is fierce, and it is not worth spending more on the premium.
As the most classic monitor headset series in the Iron Triangle, M50x adopts a fully enclosed design, built-in 45mm diameter dynamic unit, 38Ω impedance, 99dB/mW, not very difficult to drive, the wire is equipped with 1.2m short line, 3m long line and 1.2-3m anti-winding "telephone line", but also 180 ° folding, taking into account indoor and outdoor mobile applications. In terms of tuning, M50x is the most praised style of the M series of professional musicians, both the straight and less dyeing of the monitor headphones, the balanced nature of the hifi headphones, and there is no closed headphones easy to produce the problem of "barrel tone", work, listening to the song.
Send player - Mountain Spirit M3X
Compared with headphones, the presence of the player is much smaller, and even many post-00s have never used this thing that was once called "mp3". Today's mp3, has been transformed into hifi DAP, that is, the form of a digital audio player, the configuration is more feverish, the relative price is more expensive, of which the Mountain Spirit M3X is one of the few new DAP products with a price control within 2000.
At 1K price, the entry-level Sony Walkman A series sound quality is really not flattering, Apple's iPod series has also been out of print, only touch series, also far from hifi. Compared with the international giants who are not very attentive, domestic DAP has its own magic, and the mountain spirit can be said to be a representative brand of high value. Since M0 in 2016, Shanling has transformed the "youthful" design route, launched a series of fashionable and more affordable players, completely getting rid of the old-fashioned, old-fashioned shape, this time M3X is also launched "Aurora Purple" and "Ice Moon Blue" two new colors, to students who want to experience mp3 feelings of the new choice.
As a DAP from the entry-to-class, M3X first ensures ease of use: the 4.2-inch 720P screen occupies a high proportion of screens in the palm-sized fuselage, the 8-core Snapdragon 430 CPU + 2GB storage can ensure the fluency of the basic operation, and the Android 7.1 system can meet the needs of mainstream streaming media listening. In terms of functions, M3X comes with two-way Bluetooth, which supports LDACs; one-way Bluetooth can turn on aptX HD and LHDC, and can also be used as a USB DAC. In terms of sound quality, M3X adopts dual ES9219C DAC + dual crystal oscillator + FPGA technology, 3.5mm single-ended + 4.4mm balanced dual headphone port design, single-ended signal-to-noise ratio of more than 114dB, maximum thrust (balance port) 240mW@ 32Ω. The small and beautiful fuselage combines the performance of the entry hifi machine, as Shan Ling said: "Everything is just right." ”
Send Little Tail – Lepi W2-131
If you think the player is too "traditional", then sending a hifi small tail is more "modern". In the era of smart phones, the way of listening to songs on mobile phones + hifi small tails has gradually become the mainstream of the portable hifi circle, largely replacing the low-end players, due to the convenience of mobile phones to obtain music resources and the incomparable advantages of system operation and stickiness, it is more suitable as a digital turntable, and hifi small tails can upgrade sound quality on the basis of not increasing the travel burden as much as possible, and better play the potential of hifi headphones. If it is apple music for iPhone/iPad, because Apple does not support lossless Bluetooth transmission protocol, to listen to high-resolution lossless audio, it can only be wired output to the small tail through the lightning port or type-c port, and the "full blood release" apple music is another major function of the hifi small tail.
Under this premise, w2-131 has become a relatively one-step choice within the budget range. Unlike other hifi products, within 2000, whether it is a headset or a player, you can only buy the most mid-range products in the entry, but the same money can buy the top hifi tail on the market. From this point of view, the sound-to-price ratio of hifi small tails may be the highest among the current portable front ends.
The appearance of W2-131 is very recognizable in the small tail, and the Prussian blue color scheme with the 9H near diamond hardness glass back plate is more delicate and beautiful than the previous w2 with a gray fuselage and carbon fiber back shell. There is also a yellow and green magnetic rubber leather case optional, which is more convenient to adsorb on mobile phones. W2-131 value back to the part of the fare is mainly in the sound quality, FPGA, independent crystal oscillator, dual flagship DAC + binaural amplifier, digital analog part independent power supply... Properly frame a mid-range DAP. The actual performance is also quite convincing: 280mW@ 32Ω thrust is even higher than many players at the same price, and the signal-to-noise ratio of 131dB is the highest distortion indicator in portable machines. In addition, if you have flagship headphones such as Sherantu, IE800s, SE846, Z1R, etc., the W2-131 has special firmware to further optimize the listening.
Send a whisper card - Poke
The last one to recommend is also the most hardcore, a portable decoded ear amplifier that has been on the market for several years, and poke. Most of the decoding ear amplifiers are a solid "iron box", a strong straight male industrial style, but Poke has taken a different path, taking the "one-time two-dimensional route", which is eye-catching, and it is 5 years after walking. Amazingly, there are many decoded ear amplifier products, but only poke uses such a design.
Poke's name is derived from the "Pokemon" Pokemon, which also hints at its positioning as a "pocket hifi machine". From the perspective of color matching, the earliest version of Poke only has one option of "Magic Frog Blue", and then successively launched red models and relatively low-key and versatile black models. Its earliest suggested way to match is actually to bundle the Sony A series Walkman, its front length and width are exactly the same as the A35, after bundling, it is only thickened the fuselage, and the projection area is almost unchanged. In addition to giving the Walkman a royal decoding ear amplifier, its USB-A port can also be connected to a PC/mobile phone, etc., in addition to independent AUX analog input/output, which can be used as an independent decoder or independent ear amplifier. In addition to the Bluetooth module, the mainstream functions are all in place.
In terms of sound quality, Poke uses AKM out-of-print AK4490 DAC chip, supports 32bit/384KHz PCM sampling and DSD256 hard solution, 8-core XMOS chip, asynchronous transmission, supports WASAPI, ASIO and other core stream modes, two low-noise crystal oscillators, the signal-to-noise ratio of the whole machine is higher than 112dB, and the maximum power of the 3.5mm single-ended headphone port 250mW@ 32Ω. The warm tuning style of the whole machine, the thickness of the low and medium frequencies, and the strong popular flavor can be regarded as a "retro" clear stream in the era of digital sound that emphasizes detail and transparency.