The Chinese audio company Fiio is launching a new music player today that includes one uncommon feature: USB-C. The new USB standard is still a rarity on music players, but Fiio’s M7 will have the port available to use for charging, syncing music, and music playback over USB-C headphones.
Realistically, you’ll only want to use USB-C for those first two things. Headphones that work with the port have to contain their own DAC (digital-to-analog converter) to convert sound, and given the current state of USB-C headphones, chances are they won’t be very good. Or at the very least, they won’t be as good as what you’d get out of the M7’s built-in DAC for when it’s being used with traditional headphones. (Fiio makes a good, cheap pair of those,...
