Kenny2999

Sounds like a good plan. Upgrade if you feel like it and have the dough. The best time is now and/or never.

Speed differences have become more theoretical with every new generation and “mandatory upgrades” have been decades apart lately. Unless win14 is injected into the brain I don’t see any changes to the current status quo.

Shanling ME500. It starts gloved.

That depends on the length of yer beard. About 1 hour per inch.

Seems my sales pitch didn’t work. Did I mention you can duct tape the dac to the phone directly and get cavity searched at airports.

Get a separate dac. I love my Ifi Zen, its just so cool and hilariously impractical; bigger that the phone, two wires stickin out; accidental volume changes etc.