Fiio DM13 Portable CD Player

[miata57]

Hello,

I am wondering if anyone else may have purchased the DM13?  I have a few points to make and would love any feedback.

- Sound wise the highs are rolled off but otherwise very decent sound
- Bluetooth is a pain.  It does not connect sometimes and can be choppy
- Wish it had an automatic lid "open" button, opening and closing is awkward

Over all I like the player, and for $200 CAD, I think it is priced fairly

Howie

[creimes]

I no longer have a CD player, I did own an ERC-4 that I purchased for $400 CAD and pissed at myself I sold it, the SMSL PL100 is on my list, would be used as a transport.

Chad

www.amazon.ca/S-M-S-L-PL100-CS43131-Player-Black/dp/B0DQBPD9TY?th=1

[miata57]

That's a nice looking unit, and affordable as well.

[vcautokid]

I am still using my old Technics CD player and external DAC. It does what I want very reasonably.

[vcautokid]

I will say as much as I like CDs. My SSD and CF music compilation is hours and hours of continuous favorites playing. Won't even start about analog. It all gets it done.

[UK-Emo-owner]

Like Particle Accelerator, I struggle to see the purpose of a portable CD player and would even go so far as to rubbish their existence today.
Bit identical data will fit onto a little toenail sized solid state storage.

A DAP (such as any of the FIIO models) that plays lossless flac or alac or wav or any other format is far, far superior to a CD player anyway - the audio delivered to the DAC is the same, but the options for playing it are increased, so then it just becomes about the DAC and amplification.

Rip a CD once (legally allowed by fair use) in bit perfect format using EAC or just about any other software, and no other iteration of that CD can possibly be superior.

[KeithL]

I'm inclined to agree that I see little purpose for a portable CD player.

Files played directly from a hard drive, or from an SD-card based player, have equal quality to a physical CD.
Therefore the only real reason to use physical CDs is simply that you enjoy the experience of doing so.
You get a disc to handle; and an album cover and liner notes that you can actually hold in your hand and read.
But, to be quite blunt, you don't get much if any of that experience with a portable player.

I've owned several portable players in the distant past and the best of them were merely annoying to use.
The worst tended to skip all the time and most of them didn't seem to handle the discs nicely at all.
It always seemed to require enough force to insert and extract the discs, and lock them into place, that I worried about cracking them... although it never happened.
And, to be quite blunt, it isn't at all convenient to carry a bunch of CDs around.

I might consider "a portable digital player that also played CDs" for those rare occasions when "someone hands me a CD"...
HOWEVER, for a modern "portable digital player", I would be hoping for the ability to play a wide variety of audio files directly from a USB stick as well.

[leonski]

No portable CD player for ME, either.

I'd much rather have an I-Pod of some flavor......

Which are available on Epray for what is a real $$$

Perfect for outdoors.....hiking or at camp. Except in

places where you Could step on a rattler!