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https://www.whathifi.com/hi-fi/portable-music-players/ibasso-seeks-to-challenge-astell-and-kern-and-fiio-with-its-elegant-flagship-portable-player

Chinese brand iBasso is looking to take the fight to the likes of Astell & Kern and FiiO with its latest premium portable music player.

The new DX340 is, says its maker, made “for discerning users who demand both sonic excellence and intuitive usability” teasing flagship performance and engineering in a portable, “elegant” form.

Powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 665 processor, the new player offers 256GB of internal storage, although this can be expanded to up to 2TB via the provided microSD slot.

https://www.headfonia.com/omne-audio-hendeka-review/

Priced at $585 USD, the Hendeka occupies what the community has started calling the upper mid-fi segment. In any earlier era of audio, this would simply have been called high-end. Inflation, as they say, is a relentless companion.

The boutique headphone market can be genuinely unpredictable. Small manufacturers often chase bold tuning philosophies, and in doing so, sometimes sacrifice versatility for the sake of a strong identity. The Hendeka could easily have fallen into that trap. Instead, it strikes a thoughtful balance between excitement and refinement – and that balance reveals itself quickly.

From the moment you pick it up, the Hendeka feels like something built by enthusiasts rather than a corporate committee. There are visual and tactile cues everywhere that suggest genuine care: the way the earcup geometry sits in your hand, the weight distribution, the finish quality on the 3D-printed components. At the same time, it avoids looking unfinished or experimental – a concern that follows many boutique builds, whether fairly or not.