The Hifiman HM-801 looks like an old portable cassette player, but apparently it might just beat out most music players in sound quality. For $800 it ought to.

Purp · 1 year

Does the SD card stay out like that, or is that just for demonstration?

Starguard · 1 year

Why is it that every player that supports FLAC out of the box is cursed with a small disk space or an inconvenient means of storage? When will I be able to get a DAP with a decent DAC, big hard drive (or preferably, 128gb flash) and FLAC support?

disposition5 · 1 year

$800 seems pretty crazy for a "portable" music player. The MP3 players they used to compare were pretty basic, I would be interested to see how the sound quality of a Cowon compares to this HM-801.

I have a uDAC and Sansa Fuze (rockbox'd)....and while using the Audeo PFE IEM's, I can tell little to no difference in the sound quality. The Fuze is a $50 MP3 player with almost 24 battery life. I just don't see the benefit to spending that much money on a device like the HM-801. You would be better served to get a good pair of headphones, mp3 player and good sound card...and still have a couple hundred left over.

Forrest319 · 1 year

High end player and high end speakers to listen to compressed music files. Hilarious....

I'm getting flashbacks to the Monster Speaker Cable vs wire coat hangar sound tests.

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