As a leader in high-quality audio products, "HIFIMAN" believes that many audiophiles are not strangers. Today, HIFIMAN (Leading Technology) has become an internationally renowned designer and manufacturer of high-quality headphones and portable players. When "mini" becomes the current trend of electronic products, various Walkman manufacturers have launched lightweight and portable player products, of course, HIFIMAN is no exception, remember the SuperMini and MegaMini Small Strong North American version of the player that was evaluated some time ago?
Recently, HIFIMAN released one of its products, "The Twin Brothers of North American Xiaoqiang", that is, MegaMini Color North American Super Xiaoqiang Gold Edition, which not only lowers the price threshold to less than 1,000 yuan, but also meets the needs of music first-time burners. As the twin brother of Xiaoqiang in North America, what are the characteristics? Please come with me to uncover the mystery!
<h2>External analysis: simple and fashionable, colorful and portable</h2>
Recently, Xiaobian received HIFIMANMegaMini Color, the packaging looks very white and scale-free on the appearance, and the gold logo "HIFIMAN" is dotted in the middle looks a bit noble. After opening the white lid, the golden body is wrapped in a black protective layer, and there is always a feeling of red in the green grass when you enter the eyes, and the black and gold inlays are quite grade.
MegaMini Color player body and accessories
In terms of accessories, the MegaMini Color is much simpler than the SuperMini, and there is no plug except for the standard data cable. Together with accessories, the MegaMini Color player is small and delicate.
The front of the MegaMini Color
The back of the MegaMini Color
MegaMini Color has two colors, respectively gray version and gold version, the author received this is the gold version, from the overall appearance, the main color of MegaMini Color presents a brushed texture, with the luster of powder metallurgy, a rough look at the shell is very metallic, in fact, MegaMini Color body material is plastic. Compared to megaMini's metal body craftsmanship, it is slightly inferior.
Side of megaMini Color
And the same MegaMini Colo and MegaMini three circumferences are the same, the same 104mm * 45mm * 8.5mm, 57g weight for the fuselage lightness of the points add a lot, the feeling of holding in the hand is exaggerated to say that it is similar to a Zipper lighter. The upper part is the screen, the middle is the key area, and the MegaMini Color adopts a four-button design in the middle. The body is light and compact, compared to the more high-end SuperMini, the body shape is much the same. The feature is that the side line is not a vertical down, but the use of a diamond-shaped waistline design with a certain angle, with a gold body fashionable, generous, strong texture.
The bottom of the MegaMini Color
In terms of interface, the bottom hole is concentrated, and the interface function is gathered together. MegaMini Color has a 3.5 mm headphone jack, memory card slot, and micro USB charging port. It's a bit of a shame that megaMini doesn't have the SuperMini's balanced headphone port. The whole machine does not have built-in storage space, and it needs to be equipped with a Mirco SD card before use, which can support the maximum capacity expansion of 256G.
In terms of audio decoding specifications, MegaMini Color can support music with up to 24Bit and 192kHz digital sample rates, compatible with MP3, WMA, WAV, FLAC and other music formats, as well as higher specifications of DSD 64 (DSF, DFF) format decoding.
MegaMini Color's buttons are still made of plastic material, similar to the fuselage shell, still through the metal-like painting process, and itself has a good elasticity, the actual operation feels quite good. The side key layout has an iPhone atmosphere, with volume plus and minus keys on the left and power keys on the right. The buttons are surrounded by a grooved design, which feels acceptable and can be placed in the pocket for recognition and touch, and the beginner can easily master the blind exercise technique.
The front uses a 1.2-inch color LCD display, which adds a lot of color to the SuperMini's black-and-white screen, and adds the function of displaying album covers (only supports embedded album covers in MP3 and M4A formats), so it is much higher in the compulsive level. The small body brings a small screen, and the ink black of the screen plus the colorful fuselage when the screen is screened, which is unexpectedly giving people a small and fresh sense of vision. In terms of battery life, even if equipped with LCD color display, HIFI real man's staying power is not inferior, 15 hours under the lightweight fuselage, listening to two hours a day is enough to support 1 week. In the process of long-distance travel, borrowing its good voice to pass the boring waiting time, completely getting rid of the phenomenon of "poor sound quality and fast power consumption" when listening to songs on mobile phones, immersed in the beautiful music world, there is no lack of a happy thing.
<h2>Listen to a brief review: Slim body The sound quality is good</h2>
Comparison models for audition: iPhone6sp, Sony A35, HIFIMAN 901S;
Listening headphones: Onkyo H700M, RE600, Innovation air, Philips X2, HIFIMAN Edition X v2
Overall, the difference in product price points has led to a gap in hardware sound quality. The 901S and MegaMini Color, which share the same family, have an ear gap in the "parsing" of sound sources. However, compared with the same level of Sony A35, MegaMini has significantly improved in image, soundstage, three-frequency, etc., especially in terms of overtone, low-frequency diving, etc., which makes the music performance more natural and elastic. And in terms of tuning style, the MegaMini Color is more balanced in terms of tri-frequency, and there is no excessive tendency to high-frequency or low-frequency performance at both ends, on the contrary, the tri-frequency is very smooth.
But in terms of "tuning rendering", MegaMini Color and HIFIMAN 901S can be borrowed from the same line. Specifically, such as the vocal analysis in music, MegaMini Color still continues the characteristics of HIFIMAN's consistent high density and good thickness, and the three-dimensional knot image of the human voice is rounded and contrasts with the background. The interpretation of popular music is more prominent, the low-frequency area abandons too many overtones, and under the premise of maintaining a full sense of low-frequency volume, the low-frequency area is more pure, and the sense of layering is naturally not too bad.
Compared with the iPhone6sp, the sound quality and sound field that the MegaMini Color can perform, the three frequencies, it can be clear that the perception is a little stronger than the iPhone6sp, and the thrust part is slightly stronger than the mobile phone.
Try MegaMini Color pushed a few earplugs on hand, in MegaMini Color's full mid-frequency, not only the vocal positioning is accurate, the shape is three-dimensional, and the vocal part has a strong sense of convexity. In turn, borrowing from the large-ear audition such as X2, although the impedance is not high, the MegaMini Color's more energetic energy brings better instrument sound graininess, which is not only the credit of its low frequencies, but more importantly, it has excellent transient reactions. This transient reaction is excellent for listening to ACG music as well as pop music, not only the sound is tough and powerful, but also the song's climax instruments are not delayed when the instruments are crossed.
Overall, megaMini Color sound quality performance is basically the same as that of twin brother MegaMini. The thrust is not proportional to the volume; the overall sound balance is not significantly biased, the three frequencies are very smooth, belonging to the warm and rounded type; the overall sound modification component is not much. The thrust part is significantly more sufficient than the phone, and it also has a more supple and beautiful sense of hearing, which complements its beautiful new design.
<h2>PConline Lab Summary: The Strongest Contender within a Thousand Dollars</h2>
The last sentence is summed up: As a front-end HIFIMAN MegaMini Color below 1,000 yuan, colorful color matching, light and portable, cost-effective, sound quality is good, and it is a fairly balanced product.
So, should we spend 999 yuan to get started with it? This has to be dialectical two sides of the point of view, 999 yuan for the entry of a lossless player is not expensive, in exchange for a more sufficient thrust than the mobile phone, can cope with more equipment, but also can taste the real man's tuning taste. But some people will think that this thing is very chicken, because they feel that having a mobile phone is completely enough, which is in stark contrast to people who like to be "dedicated", then MegaMini is not suitable for them.