After many years, HiFi phones are back?
The headphone brand "Moondrop" posted its first mobile phone. According to the official pictures, the appearance of the machine adopts a hyperboloid body design, the upper part of the back is a rear dual camera, and the lower part adopts a twill design. Positioned as a 5G Hi-Fi mobile audio device, the phone features music and offers dual headphone jacks of 3.5mm and 4.4mm, which can be used as a Hi-Fi player and is thinner and lighter.
According to public information, this new 5G device received 3C certification on January 31 and supports 5V 2A 10W charging. SHUI YUEYU'S OFFICIAL WEIBO ALSO POSTED THE SMALL TAIL OF THE NEW MACHINE, NAMED MOONDROP MIAD01. According to the warm-up of the official website of Shui Yueyu, the machine is positioned as "5G HiFi Mobile Audio Device", which is known as "exploring the integration of art and reason".
The specific configuration information about this HiFi phone is not yet known. However, the official Weibo previously revealed: "There is no luxury in playing large-scale games, and stable and smooth operation is satisfied."
This is also a very rare mobile phone product with HiFi function in the current mobile phone market. Prior to this, vivo had launched mobile phone products that focused on HiFi sound quality. But then, mobile phone manufacturers gradually abandoned HiFi phones.
The reason why HiFi mobile phones have disappeared over the years is that from the hardware level, it needs a special HiFi chip. In the case of mobile phones, where every inch of land is at a premium, the HiFi chip will take up valuable motherboard space and will also bring additional power consumption. Take vivo's first-generation Xplay as an example, it is equipped with a DAC chip that even exceeds the 4.2V that lithium batteries can provide, so that vivo has to add an additional set of voltage conversion circuits, which greatly increases the power consumption in HiFi mode. Although professional audio chip manufacturers such as ESS and AKM have launched DACs for mobile phones, there is still a lot of power consumption, and it cannot solve the problem of occupying motherboard space.
And the most critical point, that is, the popularity of the USB Type-C interface, and more and more high-end mobile phones have canceled the 3.5mm headphone jack design. However, HiFi sound quality still relies on the traditional 3.5mm headphone jack. Similarly, if you want to keep the 3.5mm connector, it will bring additional space occupation problems.
The core problem is that the HiFi experience itself is relatively niche. For most people, streaming audio is more than enough for everyday needs. The high-quality HiFi sound quality is difficult to perceive for many fungus. You even have to sacrifice the design of your phone and the battery for this purpose, and you have to use additional high-quality headphones.
For users, there is a high threshold for using HiFi mobile phones. For mobile phone manufacturers, HiFi mobile phones bring additional costs and functional losses, which is actually not cost-effective.
So in recent years, HiFi mobile phones have gradually disappeared. Now there is finally an audio brand that has come out to make a special HiFi mobile phone, which may be mainly for the HiFi crowd, focusing on a niche market. For most people, it's probably also a music player with Android and cellular connectivity.
It's still good to have a good time, but you still have to think carefully about buying it.