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Here you go. Z3 with CS43198. No LPF op amp i see. Sold for 298 yuan (approx. $50). Will update an international purchase link if there's any.

New version available for the U1. Now comes with CS43198.

Heads up... DSDs dual Cirrus Logic's flagship, CS43198. Sold for 499 yuan (approx. $80). No international purchasement link available yet, but get your money ready, folks.

Glad to hear it, MilkMan. I guess China's market is really random after all.

Zishan sort files are based on the date it was created. So you have to manually place your music one-by-one from your storage to your SD card. I know it's kinda lame but that's what it is. FYI, i put my zishans on shuffle. So i don't have to keep in mind about non-alphabetical file sort orders.

Z3 CS43198 on AE: US $38.63 37%OFF | Zishan Z3 AK4493/AK4490/CS43198 MP3 HIFI DSD Professional Music Player Support Amplifier DAC AK4490 DSD256 With OLED Zishan T1 https://a.aliexpress.com/_mOol9Bf $40 is a good price. Maybe I'll get one and make a review about it. . It seems that ZiShan...

There's a community that really admired the sound of AD8066. Maybe you can try those as the LPF section. Nice. Now the 2.5 balanced out of the 4499 is useful. But i don't really see a "trusty" reputation there. Is it safe?

Yeah. If only it supports various sampling rates (not a fixed one) and both; the optical and coaxial ports, are inputs, this would be a very success product. Too unfortunate that they only make the U1 supports high sampling rates. Perhaps in the next MD2?

Thanks for the heads up. I hope this will help buyers out there who had a little problem using it with linux. I'll add the firmware to the main thread.

Hello Gene6ix, The green one is the LPF, while the red one is the AMP op amp. I hope this helps.

Alright then. I'll be waiting, MilkMan.

Don't worry about it. I believe that audio is a very subjective matter. If one doesn't like it, that's fine, no big deal for me. We should respect everyone's review and experience.

Looks good. I wonder if it'll be for sale on AE. So far it's a promising chifi DAP. Well try DSDs with AK4499, ZiShan's current flagship. Paired with Ghost audio AD3 sounds good though, but with HELM DB12 THX AAA sounds interesting, as it'll be like: AK4499 + THX AAA.

Hello, Well it's impossible to find the T1's battery on aliexpress since it's custom made. However, i think this is a good battery for your need: https://id.aliexpress.com/i/32884991559.html

Hello, Well, i think the font is ZiShan's standard and they won't change it in near (or any) time. I have no problems with the font though. It gets the job done finely. In case if you want to see the display in real use...

I thought it'll be like steel black but turns out it's silver. Well, still looks unique nevertheless.

ZiShan MD1 Desktop-grade USB DAC and USB audio player manufactured by ZiShan, featuring: - PCM decoding: up to 32bit/384KHz (USB Type-A flash drive input only. USB DAC through Type-C input only support a fixed 16/48 sampling rate) - DSD decoding: native DSD up to 1bit/11.2MHz (DSD 256) [USB...

Well glad to hear it. It's height measures at 50mm so yeah, it's tiny. It's a portable device, so gotta stick portable, yeah? Well not a lot of people hangs here. I created the thread just to let people know it's specs and less of an "alien" device. We need more participants to make this thread...

Interesting. AK4493, tube amplifier, replaceable LPF. I saw 2.5 balanced too. Let's see.

Finally received my U1, 42 days... And it's disappointing. It won't turned on, won't charge. Already tried to use it with both my phone and my PC but still nothing happened. It was charging and the LED indicators light up for 2 seconds only and that's it. Dead. Charged it for another 5 hours, no...

Sure, like i wrote in my previous comment: I hope this helps. Edit: just make sure to buy any opamp from trusted sites like mouser. Don't buy opamps from sites like AE or Taobao.

Of course it's worth to For me it is worth to change the opamps. It's better for you to find a shop and pay them to do some de/resoldering job. I believe there are plenty of shops in china which accepts those kinds of request.

Hey, this isn't fair. I've ordered the U1 way before you guys yet both of you already started the game (just joking around though, nothing serious). Haha, didn't expected U1 to work. But i guess it did already. So Zishan was right, it would work for some device, but not every device. Yes...

Do we really need USB DAC support up to 32Bit/384KHz? I mean, for people like me who only used 24/192 max. (My Hi-Res files are mostly 24/96) I think the use of a dedicated USB Controller + clock and a separate USB DAC port is a great feature. Not only it won't suck source's battery pretty...