They do indeed specify some sort of high voltage precision motor and a copper flywheel. And they claim a custom movement design.

And since it is an enthusiast device from a company with a good reputation, you can easily find teardowns online.

Anyway, you can read reviews online, there are plenty of them, and make your own mind.

It’s probably true for the head, but at least coming from Fiio there’s a good chance the rest of the system (motor, flywheel, etc) is top notch at least.

No, the CP13: https://fiio-shop.de/EN/FiiO-CP13/HL02296.SkyBlueSilver

How’s the Fiio player? Also crappy heads?

It’s a feature not a bug 🤪

Clients often are better suited for music, specially for mobile. For example with Subsonic clients (Navidrome, Gonic, etc), the client aggressively caches the queued songs, which is super helpful when there are hiccups in the network while traveling. A few clients allow me to configure the cache size, allow me to mark some titles are always cached, allow me to browse the cache (case I don’t have network at all). It’s just way better suited for music.

And on the desktop clients are way lighter weight.

Actually dude’s English teacher was an amazing polyglot. Tony from LC Signs is just a master of accents and can switch from one to the next in an instant. Really impressive. He’s like a big star on Instagram (and probably tiktok?), sometimes LC Sign runs someone else do a bit and everyone complains that they want Tony back. Tony’s original accent was something southern.

https://www.instagram.com/lcsign_us