I’ve already spent some time stepping away from streaming with another digital audio player, but the Snowsky Echo sits in a slightly different space. Where something like the Innioasis Y1 leans heavily into affordable nostalgia as a concept, the Echo feels more like an attempt to refine it, to
Opus (and its predecessor Vorbis) is intended for telephony. It’s compression algorithm is optimised for low latency encoding of speech.
Opus is a hybrid codec, it combines codecs for both speech and higher quality audio/music.