SMSL x Evangelion 
That design is sick!!!
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Which brand from our space can you name for having it’s own ‘house’ design?
The first that comes to mind is Chord. But that’s $$$$$
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FiiO is pretty recognizable and constant with their design when it comes to their DAPs and Bluetooth DAC/AMPS
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- Lake people/Violectric/Nimbus
- Ifi to some degree
- Burson
- Ferrum
For Chinese manufacturers I can only think of Xduoo and Cayin.
I disagree on this one. Just look at the K11, K9, K19 and the upcoming K17. There is very little design language shared between those models. But they seem to be trying something with that Snowsky brand they just started.
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iFi, sure, I think they have design language that’s constricted to lineups/series. Burson, yeah. Ferrum, yeah, but they don’t have a whole lot of products.
Not in the portable or headphone sector (for the most part), PASS Labs and Boulder.
I don’t think a single one of them has a really authentic ‘house’ design. When I say authentic, take a look at Metaxas & Sins. Such mature and established design can be seen in the loudspeaker industry, but I don’t think we’ve quite seen anything this authentic in the headphone space. Actually, Chord really did succeed in that.
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Are they losing their minds with this design language? lol Why copy Dunu? That’s a strange decision for sure.
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Designers meeting…
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kinda dig the DS200 look
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I was talking about their DAPs and Bluetooth DAC/AMPS, they are mostly sharing the same design language.
With their bigger amps it is another story, you are right
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Ah, I see your point. I’m not very familiar with their DAP’s.
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You guys know SMSL’s brand is throwing as much random shit as possible at the wall and seeing what sticks, right? Not having a design language is their brand.
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If that thing took a sim card, that would be my next phone. Idk why, but i really like the look of that.
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is that the one with the weird balanced 3.5mm
looks neat but not something I’d use otg at that price 
yeah, that’s just gross.
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Hmm, yeah.
I have that 3.5mm on my Shanling M0 pro (Onix is a Shanling sub-brand iirc), but there it makes sense because of the size. On a full size DAP, this feels like a step backwards. Doing it so the DAP can be thinner also feels like a pointless excuse.
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Am I missing something out? I’ve never heard of anyone using balanced 3.5mm connection. 2.5mm, 4.4mm, XLR, mini-XLR… but 3.5mm? I’m aware of its existence, but never heard a single soul asking for it, nor talking about using it.
It weird yes. Also because they market it as 4.4mm capable, but that is only with an adapter that is sold seperately (for Shanling).
Again, I can understand it for something as small as the M0 pro, but not a full size DAP.
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iFi used it and called S-Balanced my old NANO iDSD BL had it…
- The new S-Balanced technology means headphone channel separation is unchanged with load (requires balanced wired IEMs or headphones to benefit)
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