As a "burning product" suitable for HiFi burners, it can meet the "threshold" requirements of HiFi user groups for high-quality sound source playback in terms of ease of use, hardware configuration such as DAC decoding chip and supported formats.
The most critical point is that it is very small in size, and it is really difficult to have competitors in terms of portability, and then Rhythm Audio seems to push this small small tail to be somewhat "addictive", and it has come up with a "drumbeat" posture and successively launched a series of small tails.
It looks like the little tail universe is about to be formed.
But the problem is that the rhythm audio family has so many small tails, not to mention the 6 models currently on sale in their own Taobao stores, as well as the suspension of the sale of burners released on the HiFi platform, and a seafood market burner in the second-hand, plus in the naming of some "flying self", for now, it is not easy to distinguish these versions and names.
Images are from the Taobao search interface
If you name the little tail according to the rhythm of the audio, it is easy to "confuse".
The vast majority of users who read the small tail experience article, in addition to the HiFi "into the burning" group, there are also some public digital enthusiasts, plus Apple mobile phones have now supported "lossless" sound sources, so this "small tail" appeared in the public vision.
How to buy a piece of hardware is enough for two or three years; the sound quality is outstanding; the operation is simple and the price is cheap, and the small tail is the "new demand" of such users.
And how to introduce the rhythm audio home product in a way that the public can understand? With the brain hole wide open, you can follow the "Marvel Universe" to enter the seat of the "rhythm small tail".
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Recently the last Spider-Man film just hit the streaming platform? Not to discuss the incomprehensible plots in the movie, but simply to discuss the characteristics of Spider-Man, although he is not tall, compared to other heroes is also more "mini", but the strength is not small, in addition, in terms of personality, also belongs to the "young and vigorous" type.
In the case of "seating in the right number", the latest HDV of the rhythm audio family can be seen as the "Spider-Man" in the rhythm small tail family.
So how does this little tail that only sells for more than 300 perform?
Let's start with packaging. Now Rhythm Audio has finally begun to pay attention to the design of the packaging, although HDV is not the most high-end small tail of the rhythmist, but it is indeed much more advanced than the previous MHD, which is "modern minimalist", and the MHD packaging is like a little decoration.
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In addition to the brand logo on the front, the HDV appearance is the lower right corner is the main selling point of this small tail, such as support for DSD and MQA. On the back is the detailed data of this small tail, which is most useful for in-firing users than the output power of up to 95mW and the output level of 2VRMS.
Open the package to see the small tail and data cable. Here to emphasize, there are two official currently on sale, one is the "single-ended" version, and the other is the Android/Apple to 3.5mm double-ended version, it is recommended to directly choose the double-ended version.
HDV is as light as ever in the hand, although it does not use the integrated design of port wire, but the weight can still be directly "ignored". Anyway, the rhythmist small tail is very small, even if the "hanging" under the phone is not a big problem, and unlike other brands decoding the ear to put the small tail, and the "portable player" volume is almost the same, which is not the same, losing the portable significance.
If MHD looks like a fully armed "Panther", then HDV is really simple. Compared with MHD, which removes the volume buttons, this design is convenient for HiFi enthusiasts to operate directly, but it is not very useful for the vast majority of users.
To make the operation easier, it is better to remove it.
For the HiFi group, or through the fuselage piano to display different colors (red, green, blue), to view the current playback status, this design and rhythm of MHD in the same vein, of course, this "color" to distinguish the design of the playback question file format, it seems to remember some "complicated", but for the public users, can be directly ignored.
Users with HD file playback compulsive disorder may also be able to become "true and false" lossless audio file inspection devices?
Is HDV friendly to the general user community?
Many users who are new to the little tail may have questions, how to use it? Do I need to set it up again on my phone?
In two cases, if you are using an Apple mobile phone, you can directly plug in lightning without any settings; if you use an Android mobile phone, then it is recommended to put your favorite music into the system directory, and then install the Haibei Music APP, open the "Haibei exclusive USB output", scan the music in the mobile phone.
Figure note: Android phone can open haibei music exclusive USB output
Apple mobile phone does not need to worry about SRC problems, and Android needs to avoid SRC, although on Android 11 has been able to "perfectly" circumvent this problem, but Android users use a variety of mobile phone systems, there may be users using Android 9 or Android 10 systems, so the safest way at present is to output the "audio source file" directly to the decoding ear amplifier intact.
In addition, the HDV can also be connected to the PC through the built-in Type A interface, and use the ASIO client as a PC sound card, which can be used as a temporary sound card when traveling, but if it is used as a daily work equipment or to complete a project, it is still recommended to use a special sound card.
In fact, for the public, it is more about the difference in sound between connecting the small tail and not connecting the small tail.
HDV compared to some of the more expensive MHD biggest difference, is at 16 ohms and 32 ohms, the output power is different, of course, here to pay attention to, the output power marked at this time is the instantaneous maximum power, that is, the maximum output of 16 ohms is 145mW, the maximum output power of 32 ohms is 95mW, in other words, for the current mainstream dynamic, moving iron, circle iron, the problem is not big, but for some of the "circle iron static" headphones, I do not recommend here.
Next, let's talk about the use of the aune Jasper headphones with a small tail of the sound, Jasper this headphones have appeared in a number of equipment reviews, 32 ohms and 102dB sensitivity does need a better driving force and control to launch the characteristics of the headphones themselves: low frequency retraction freely, transient response is sharp; medium frequency vocal and image distance is moderate, the sound is delicate and natural; high frequency is bright and not prickly, and the overtones are sufficient.
The above is the performance on the front end of the "monster" level such as Haibei RS6, and it is unrealistic to require HDV to have such a performance as RS6, as long as it can "suppress" the glitch feeling of Jasper's headphones at high frequencies.
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Play the music purple display in MQA file format and play lzh shot
In fact, at first I thought that I would only suppress the "high-frequency" glitch feeling, but after actually listening to it for a while, I found that the potential of HDV is like the strength of Iron Man after giving Bugs a complete set of suits, which can make good headphones play out the characteristics it should have. Compared with the direct connection of a adapter, the Jasper sound density under the HDV should be significantly "improved", the "control" has been interpreted, and the sense of hearing is more direct, that is, it becomes more attractive.
I have not used the mobile phone directly connected to the headphones before to push, this time I tried, I can only say "listen to it, next time don't pick it up like this", this sound is like roaring in the pipe, the high-frequency voice line is narrow and the instrumental music is thin, very unnatural.
Connecting hdV first to improve is the overall density of the three frequencies, high frequency improvement is particularly obvious, that kind of stimulating frizzy listening sense no longer exists, but it can still be heard that in fact, in addition to increasing the density, the sound base is still relatively "straightforward" without any dyeing, coupled with excellent analysis, overtones are naturally abundant, so in the performance of pure instrumental music, such as trio, quartet, you can feel the excellent transient sense of instrumental music and the sound texture of the bow string rubbing each other when blowing and pulling, but because Jasper's high frequency itself is "unrestrained" Some, so sometimes I feel like the energy "explodes" a bit too much.
Compared with MHD, HDV has less volume adjustment, which is a good thing for mass users
Compared with the "strength" of high frequency, low frequency is obviously to converge some, on the one hand, the performance of the headphones themselves in low /medium frequency is "soft" compared to high frequency, on the other hand, because HDV has better control, so that it will not lead to low frequency is too bloated, the amount is too fat, the overall most intuitive "audible" is the cohesion and rebound speed, as well as a moderate sense of volume, plus the driving force is also more abundant, so the high dynamic performance brought by it, very suitable for listening to some large dynamic type tracks, For example, the theme song "The Batman" of "The Batman" with a strong personal style, the sonorous and powerful, low "bang, bang, bang" is indeed more enjoyable.
On the mid-frequency vocals, because of the increase in their own density, the vocal "voice line" adaptation surface is still very wide. In fact, to a certain extent, it also "makes up" for Jasper's own more straightforward and slightly "thin" style characteristics, such as listening to some folk songs of Cai Qin, you can feel that the sound has more sense of charm, and in this sense of charm, the "richness" improvement is the first to feel, followed by the change of rhyme and the mouth shape to be more "exquisite". In terms of the sense of soundstage atmosphere, horizontal and vertical have a good breadth and depth, of course, in the sense of space, it is not very exaggerated, more is to show the soundstage quality of the headphones.
Since I have said so much about sound quality performance, I will summarize the experience at the end:
For the public user experience is simple and fast, plug and play, in addition, there is no need to worry about the small tail power, for the mobile phone power consumption, can be ignored.
The driving force is abundant and the control is excellent, and it can basically cover the mainstream dynamic coil, moving iron, and circle iron headphone range.
The product comes with a Haibei MQA activation code worth 59.9 yuan, which can be directly activated in the Haibei Music APP, and the HDV has also obtained the official certification of Haibei decoding.
The price is moderate, suitable for volkswagen and HiFi first burners.
The appearance is relatively simple.