One last try for information on which SoC used in the device?
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Originally Posted by Nankai
They add too much concept which is harmful to sound quality, such as eq. They try to make the working current as little as they can, so that they can show off their new tech of long battery life.
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See, this is where I have a problem. You say that EQ is harmful to sound quality? Perhaps it might have been in the analog world, but here in the digital realm, it doesn't make a bit of difference. EQ may not be wanted by some listeners (I don't really use it, myself), but to say that implementing it is harmful to sound quality is wrong at best. In the digital realm, it is either on or off. I haven't seen what SoC you are using for this, but it must be pretty beefy if you can play high APE files. There is no reason why you wouldn't have plenty of power to implement it in software like we do with many devices. Once again, it is either active, or it isn't. There is no way it can affect sound quality when not active provided that the implementation didn't introduce some code defects.
Regarding the second statement in this quote, I agree, but to a point. Even with your goals, there are plenty of ways that you can use to improve battery life that will have no affect on the resulting sound quality which I hope you have at least made an effort to do. These can include many things I mentioned in my first post in this thread - things like scaling down the processor when the power is not needed, turning off components when they are not needed (accessory ports, LCD, certain chips, etc), improving codec efficiency so that the codecs require less power to run, minimizing storage accesses, and even improving the core of the firmware in general. Many of these are things that manufacturers don't bother to do because it simply works and don't want to spend the money for further development. Many manufacturers probably choose to go with lower end hardware for cost and power consumption reasons, but I am merely saying that that is only one side of the coin here and the other side can be looked at without sacrificing any quality whatsoever.
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They successfully made most of their customers believe that "fancy" or "cool" is more important than sound quality.
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One part where we agree on. It is nice to see that someone is at least attempting to go the other way, and I congratulate you on putting forth this effort.