Fosi Audio shows the DAP Neo, a sub-$100 player with no internet at all
A prototype shown at CanJam London: an offline-only digital audio player in an iPod-shaped body, deliberately without streaming, Wi-Fi or apps, expected below $100.
Fosi Audio showed the DAP Neo as a prototype at CanJam London 2026, a compact digital audio player styled after an iPod that plays local files and nothing else: no streaming services, no network connection. The company expects it to land under $100, with final specifications and pricing still to come.
Removing the network from a player removes the largest source of noise and the largest source of software rot at once, which is a defensible engineering position rather than nostalgia. What it cannot do is remove the two figures that decide whether it is worth owning: output power into a stated impedance, and output impedance, which on a player this cheap is the one most likely to reshape the response of a low-impedance in-ear.
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