SnowSky/FiiO Echo MINI HiFi Bluetooth MP3 Player, 15Hours Playback, Independent Volume Control with 3.5mm/4.4mm Headphones Outputs (Pink)

At $50, this thing is a steal. Does it sound as good as a higher end DAP? No. Does it sound better than most anything that costs 3 or 4 times as much? Yes.It packs enough power from the balanced outputs to drive HE1000SE reasonably well, although lacking a bit of weight. Also pushes HE-400S pretty well, as well as the 150 ohm sennheiser HD-660S decently.Thunders with the Meze 99 Classics.The bottom end lacks a bit of punch and definition on the harder to drive cans mentioned above, and there is a bit of coarseness and lack of refinement, but make no mistake that the sound is subjectively pleasing, unlike a lot of budget DAPs costing much more and it is behind excellent for the price.Light as a feather too.I agree with the other review that the lack of a button to skip to the next track is a shame, and there is also a lag when starting to play a song before it loads and plays.But this is a great item for the price, good for a beater unit for something like jogging or work or travel, when you don't want to risk damage or theft but you still want decent sound and power.

Would give 5 stars but top two "transport" looking buttons only control the volume limiter. You can't adjust them to be back/forward or volume control. Must control via Bluetooth headphones, assuming you have them.So to change songs, you need to press power, then back button, then navigate to the next song and press play.I bought this to switch away from my phone since I have to navigate way too much to change songs.There is also no way to skip in a track or rewind. It's play all the way through or nothing.Otherwise it has a nice premium feel, especially the packaging. Audio sounds great. UI is a bit clunky to get used to but get used to it quickly, it's intuitive just enough.Very compact too! Screen has great brightness, adding music is easy as drag and drop to folders. Trying to create a playlist, I couldn't figure out. You can set songs to favorite but very time consuming.

I love this thing. The retro look, plus it sounds amazing when you pair with a nice pair headphones.

I have this Snowsky Echo Mini for 2 months now. I have a whole bunch of these small MP3 players. I have this white headphone that never sounds good at all no matter where I plug it to. This Echo Mini makes this white headphone sound good like my good old Sony MDR. The Echo Mini also has lot of options to customize your music. The screen is great. The animation is amazing. Battery life is ok.However, I can only give this DAP 2 stars.The Echo Mini crashes a lot. Their newest firmware 1.70 just makes it worse. Whenever the Echo Mini does not like your mp3 files, it crashes, freezes for a while, and then reboots itself. You will then lose your library. You will have to scan the memory card again.The UI is not that great. You have to hold the power button for couple seconds to turn it on. You then need to wait another couple seconds for it to finish booting. And then you will need to press the play button to start your music.The USB transfer is very slow. It averages 1-2 mbps. Take forever to copy files to the Echo Mini. I give up and use a SD card instead. The Bluetooth connection is useless. It cannot connect to most of my speakers, headphones, or headsets. The one that can be connected will just get disconnected after couple minutes.The Mini also costs more than any of my other mp3 players and my am/fm radios.2 stars. Avoid if possible.

This thing is smaller than I expected for some reason. It's not the size of an old walkman, it's more the size of one of those mini cassette recorders that people used in the '90s.I couldn't get this thing to recognize my Samsung Evo Select 256gb. If I used the Echo itself to format it, my Windows 11 PC wouldn't recognize it, even after multiple formatting attempts.I even upgraded the firmware to the newest v1.6.0 that came out on 04/30/2025. Still no luck.There aren't any instructions on how to format the microSD card. All I know is that 256gb is the max microSD card that's recommended.I read somewhere that it needs to use FAT32, but Windows 11 won't let me format a 256gb card to FAT32, just exFAT. I also read that people had luck using exFAT, so I tried that and still nothing.I found an older Samsung 32gb and Windows 11 allowed me to format it to FAT32 and it works with the Echo just fine.The Echo is made basically of all plastic. The screen is pretty small, but useable. The built in storage is only about 7gb or something, so not much music is going to go in there.It sounds fantastic using a wired connection with some generic headphones that I got a while ago. Bluetooth also seems to work just fine. I'm able to control skipping tracks with the buttons on my headphones, so that's a nice plus.Besides the 256gb card not working, I'd just want the Echo to have separate volume rockers. It shares the rocker with skipping and rewinding the tracks. Short press for volume and long press for tracks. I haven't found a way to scrub through the song, which I think would be great to have for a device that looks like an old cassette player.EDIT: I'm now using a cheap generic 128gb card that works. In Windows 11, I formatted to exFAT and 64kbps as the allocation. The default allocation didn't work. I tried this on the 256gb Samsung and it didn't work for some reason.