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Here is an interesting device QA-550 wav player

post #1 of 16
8/27/09 at 9:31pm
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It uses sd cards, has a digital only out put (with the potential for I2S). Could be a nice high quality portable unit to use with a portable dac

.http://cgi.ebay.com/QA-550-Hi-End-WA...d=p3286.c0.m14
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post #2 of 16
8/27/09 at 10:14pm
At $100 it sure looks interesting, S&H is up to $30 and it only seems to support up to 8 GB cards. It is not too large, only supports 16/44.1 WAV which IMO should be good enough for most.
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post #3 of 16
8/27/09 at 11:04pm
Looks neat, except you would need a battery power supply to take with you. That's the player, powersupply, dac and amp. That's 4 brick sized devices if the dac doesn't have a built-in amp.
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post #4 of 16
8/28/09 at 4:48am
Another China audio maker's products?
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post #5 of 16
8/28/09 at 11:36am
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Remeber, the China market has helped the HiFi market

Not only producing products, but is also a major consumer of hifi. Some things they produce are junk some are great, others in the middle.
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post #6 of 16
8/28/09 at 12:49pm
can this become alternative of iriver ihp120/140??
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post #7 of 16
8/28/09 at 6:48pm
So many people want digital output to go, there you have it.
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post #8 of 16
8/28/09 at 6:53pm
It's not really to go. You need to carry a large battery pack with it unfortunately.
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post #9 of 16
8/28/09 at 6:54pm
Would have been cooler if it took other lossless formats too, like flac, wma and apple lossless.
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post #10 of 16
8/29/09 at 1:11am
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Originally Posted by Punnisher View Post
It's not really to go. You need to carry a large battery pack with it unfortunately.
u mean the player doesn`t have internal battery inside??
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post #11 of 16
8/29/09 at 6:59am
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u mean the player doesn`t have internal battery inside??
Yes, it is driven by DC In, and it is unknown how much energy does it use (although it seems like 4.5W, so you will be able to use it from 6*AA battery pack for a 4-5 hours maximum).
That "player" is completely nonsense, an used ihp-1xx costs just a few more, weights (with battery) less than QA-550 (without battery), works from battery for about 15 hours, rockboxable, supports (through rockbox) a wide variety of formats (including flac, aac, mp3, ogg etc), has a nice screen, can be upgraded to 240gb hard drive (although i'm not sure if rockbox will work with hard drives larger than 137GB) and can be used without an external dac/amp.
Completely pointless.
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post #12 of 16
8/29/09 at 7:09am
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Originally Posted by penartur View Post
That "player" is completely nonsense, an used ihp-1xx costs just a few more, weights (with battery) less than QA-550 (without battery), works from battery for about 15 hours, rockboxable, supports (through rockbox) a wide variety of formats (including flac, aac, mp3, ogg etc), has a nice screen, can be upgraded to 240gb hard drive (although i'm not sure if rockbox will work with hard drives larger than 137GB) and can be used without an external dac/amp.
Completely pointless.
I agree. Please, sell me used ihp-1xx for "just a few more".
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post #13 of 16
8/29/09 at 7:36am
Here is H120 for just $150: iRiver iHP-120 20GB MP3 Player - eBay (item 300341932072 end time Sep-01-09 19:35:14 PDT)
And don't forget that for "portable" usage of QA-550 you will need also to purchase 6 AA batteries plus a case to get 9V output. And $95 for this QA-550 is just a current bid, not "buy it now" price.
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post #14 of 16
8/29/09 at 7:39am
BTW, how does H1x0 sounds compared to e.g. ipod 5th gen and zune 80/120?
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post #15 of 16
8/30/09 at 8:32am
The QA-550 is more like a cheaper wadia 170i in my eyes. This was never meant to be a portable device.
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