Seems kinda surreal... I'm down. Opinions?
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Just posted in their Instagram 🎵🎶🩵
M500 notes
Long term use warms up similar to my EVA R4
Today from 100%-40% span of 4.5 hours mostly listening to music near full volume before next charge
Buttons are DEFINITELY sketchy and questionable on longevity as seen in videos
Camera is a Straight Gimmick, needs to be removed, barely anyone will ever use it even less for WiFi only units(can use for “Spotify codes” etc but might as well use your phone) Camera takes a while to focus and takes 7-8 sec to load your photos and still doesn’t fully render for another 3 seconds (side note, it has a flash but doesn’t by default allow to use for a flashlight outside of the camera app)
Volume output is louder than my R4 EVA on medium gain (can run my HD6xx but 60-80 vol for acceptable performance) can’t change gain like r4
Side light never turns off while unit is powered and doesn’t change color depending on track coding like all other hiby units, you can have the light always on or off that’s it. (Can get annoying at night AND Can drain battery if left on at night without charging)
Speakers are mediocre (not surprising)
Build quality is pure plastic (Reminds me of android phones of 2012-2017 made of pure plastic like budget HTC phones,1st gen Razer phone, or the Robin phone etc)
Way less audio settings compared to my hiby R4 Eva. All you have is [Digital filter] and [Output power mode]
No “Mode change” like the R4, so no USB DAC, BT RECEIVER MODE, or pure audio mode.
Definitely NOT Left handed friendly: vol control hard to reach/use and fn key is hard to use. Sorry lefties
Screen is a big improvement over the r4, even though the r4 has a higher resolution of 750x1334 compared to m500’s 720x1280, the colors pop out way better and you can change the amount of color your screen displays in settings, and the m500 seems to have less lag compared to the r4 when watching videos in testing
Not useable in pocket, most buttons feel the same and vol wheel catches in pocket, must take out fully to use
User interface does run faster than R4 in some applications, in others you can’t tell the difference, I took off the miku theme because it did actually lag certain stuff like changing songs: songs skip to the next FLAWLESSLY, but the miku theme player struggled to change album art and froze if you skipped to fast
In conclusion it’s still a fun dap but for people who want there first dap or an everyday/everywhere dap, i wouldn’t recommend it since there are other android daps in the same price range. Some of the software stuff ive mentioned can be fixed over updates but this is first day impressions with no updates yet announced
P.S. for people who want more of an audio review I’m currently testing my iems and headphones on it, it DOES sound fantastic, don’t hear any audible lag or distortion. currently with my iems it’s hard to tell which is better my Eva or miku but the HD6xx headphones definitely show the EVA r4 shine
But TBH just wait for one of the YouTube audiophiles to post since they got more experience, equipment, time, bishes, etc.