I mentioned that no amount of fiddling with the treble and bass would correct for the loss of sound in the "phantom center", at least in the time I gave it last night. SallymaeHogsby got it right a few posts ago when she said that classical music sounds "gutted". I was listening to some Vivaldi...

Yeah, that's kind of where I'm at with this. I'll see if I can do this test properly, just to satisfy my curiosity, but I have no problem sticking with the 2.14b firmware, and fully enjoying my use of the X3 with that. For the record, I'm not trying to blast the firmware developers with any...

Yeah, that and issues with the audio input drivers on my PC that I've been meaning to sort out for a while now, but keep putting off. :(   PS. While I'm on that subject, if anyone has sorted out how to get recording to work from one of the line inputs on a Yamaha Audiogram in Windows 7 64-bit...

Ok, so I tried it, and the results aren't totally conclusive, but very interesting nonetheless. I get some leakage into the opposite channel (tested with chopping the right channel out of the first half of a track, and the left channel out of the second half of one of my 24/96 FLAC files). I...

Holy crap, you're right! I'm going to try this right now...thanks for the idea!

Yeah, sorry, I was mincing words. What I meant was basically this: If I take any of the files I have on my X3 right now and preview them with this plugin, with roughly these settings (maybe a bit closer to -20), they end up sounding almost exactly how they sound on the X3 itself with the...

<subjective opinion> So...I finally got time to try the 3.0 firmware, replacing it from 2.14b. I'm listening to 24/96 and 24/192 FLAC from HDTracks, using V-Moda Crossfade M-100s. I hear what people are saying about what they perceive as improvements in the SQ, but I beg to differ. I think I...

Not necessarily. I've got a pair of V-Moda crossfades (M-100) hooked up to mine, and some of the audiophile stuff I listen to that has a really high dynamic range, I'm at 90. Then when I switch to a ripped CD, youch! I drop it back down to 75. So it depends a lot on what you're listening to.

The difference between the clip+ and the X3 was night and day for me. On the X3, all my 24bit, 96kHz files sound spectacular. On the Clip, they sound like...silence, and an 'invalid media format' error message.

Yeah, this matches my experience. The actual crashing seems to be confined to 24/96 and 24/192 FLAC in gapless playback on firmware 2.1, and *only* when they're loaded into onboard memory (not off my micro SD card), so I'm wondering if there's something wrong with the internal storage...

Well, so far all my CD rips to FLAC have sounded great. At least I haven't noticed clicks. I would also guess that 2.1 is the standard shipping firmware version. That's what mine had when I got it about 6 weeks ago.

Well, prior to the beta firmware version 2.14b, I'd say...badly. Depending on what you're playing, it seems spotty, and in the case of 24 bit, 192 kHz FLAC, frequently crashed my unit.   With the 2.14b firmware, it's much better. It's not "true" gapless, I don't think. For anything I've tried...

Yeah, I had the "won't play the next song" issue with almost every 24bit/192 kHz FLAC on there before I upgraded from 2.1 to 2.14b. Now it's all fine, and even gapless works very well in most cases. I can't say enough good things about the progress being made on the firmware. As for 2.14b being...

You should check out posts #9372 and  #9410 in this thread. In my browser, they're on pages 625 and 628 respectively. You might want to read the posts in between, and for at least a handful of pages after that as well, since there's a lot of useful discussion around a couple of non-critical, but...

Ok, I'll concede that last point. In a perfect world, I hope the devs eventually get around to fixing this limitation. It just saddens me to think that they might spend any time on improving their player so that it works better for people who feel the need to have 5800 songs with them, when...