FiiO M11S $819
The beauty of portable music players is their simplicity. Load them up with music, pair them with decent audiophile headphones, and away you go — into the revered sonic realms of portable hi-fi that are often only reached by speaker-fronted systems costing significantly more.
With the FiiO M11S, there is, however, an additional accessory and slight cost you need to factor into its price tag — a microSD card. While many owners of music players might end up purchasing a storage card to boost internal storage capacity, it’s almost a requirement of buying the M11S, which has a mere 32GB built-in. As that would accommodate roughly 1,000 CDquality songs, those who have modest libraries, who perhaps also rely on a streaming service, may believe they could get by on that. But when you fire up the
