Moondrop MIAD01 5G HiFi Mobile Audio Device

Moondrop is a company with passion for high quality music, but... I personally don't think this would be a good deal.

It's about damn time, can we get an amen!

I finally got my hands on one of these.

Because i am not using a lot of Google Apps anyway, i liked that it doesn't have Google Stuff out of the box (its annoying to disable all the apps i don't use anyway).

I used it with the KISS Launcher which is significantly faster and feels more fluent than the launcher that comes stock (unrelated to that i hate bloaty screens with millions of icons. For reference, my everyday smartphone: https://ignaz.org/nextcloud/index.php/s/q9jbJdTCqFDnfJS

Anyway, after setting up the apps i want/need, it works okay. It is slower than my SHARP Aquos Sense 7 which did cost roughly the same, but of course, has no fancy audio features so that is hard to compare. And thats what i am most curious about.

I am negatively surprised about the Software. I think someone else already mentioned it, Moondrop is not the best in developing apps and you notice that instantly. Not even sure if they developed the music player or if this is just a stock app.

The sound is... okay. It is surprisingly good for a phone, i'd say maybe even better than the LG V60 so in terms of Smartphones, this might take the cake of best sound.

But it is not even close to any of the DAPs i own/heard. Even my old ZX500 (that is just laying around, if someone wants it, give me an heads up) is still, after all these years, an significant upgrade.

But the price, its 399$. For that price, i would say you can't complain. You should not expect the Sound of an ZX500 or higher, but that would be unfair to begin with.

In terms of Smartphones, this is the best i've heard so far. It sounds like an ~50$ Dongle but without the annyoing thing hanging from the bottom from your phone.

One downside for me. When there is not playing any music (or at very low volume), you can hear it when you're using the phone. At least i can hear it with my IER-M9 (and they are not _that_ sensitive) and this digital noise annoys me after some time.

Also 001/100 is still too loud for me personally, but that is very subjective