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I bought an Astell & Kern SR35 recently, so I didn't have to keep messing around with converting my FLACs to ALAC or AAC and using bloody iTunes to get my music on to my phone.
Previously I was able to fit my lossless library onto my 512Gb phone when converted down to AAC, but I now I just have a 1Tb SD in the DAP which is synced with my local digital library (Roon) and the A&K works great.
Battery life is pretty decent, it is very small and pocketable and has plenty of power to drive my IEMS and Open Backed cans. Works with Roon & Tidal too when needed.
I have a "FreeSync" job setup on my media PC and very few weeks I push the latest library to the SD card and off we go.
...to add, it was kind of nice to come full circle! I bought my very first "big boy" DAP back In 2003 and it was an iRiver H120. I still have it and it still works, so coming back to Astell & Kern 20 years later (iRiver became A&K) tickled me.
Fellow H120 enjoyer here with many happy memories of that chunky boi. Crazy to think that now we're talking about 1 terabyte DACs, although a 512GB card in my Shanking M0 is adequate for my needs.