I’m loving the look of this thing, but “audiophile brand” just screams “overpriced as fuck” to me. Time will tell I suppose.
Moondrop generally is great value and fairly affordable as well as having some of the more famous audiophile IEMs.
I bought their $20 tws recently and it’s not bad for the price. They’re more like budget audiophile brands.
Just ordered a pair of wired in-ear headphone from their website for like 15 USD with free worldwide shipping and they sound amazing.
While they have products in the thousands, most their headphones cost under 100 AFAIK
Of course regardless the phone will be 100% overpriced.
Sadly, it’ll be over priced.
How do you figure? Moondrop IEMs are generally great value.
They’re gonna want to recoup all their investment as fast as possible. And, with the typical pricing of “audiophile” players being fairly steep, having one that’s also a phone in function, the only way to do that is to price higher than they can their other products.
I could be wrong in that prediction, of course. But I don’t see them trying to step into the phone market at the budget range.
Fair enough, very valid points, especially since this is unlikely to be (completely) a rebranded generic aliexpress phone. And to be fair some digital audio players cost an insane buck (see FiiO M series), so if this is kind of a middle ground, the price could be steep.
And to be fair they did put out an astronomically proced keyboard with a dac inside that had PCB drift issues.
Mmm I’ll keep my DAP and phone separate thanks. Edit: Just to add to my point I think it could be the worst of both. Noisy DAC because of ‘GSM modem’, poor phone due to older version of Android, lack of updates, average camera etc. I’d be happy to be proved wrong.
