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post #106 of 118
1/19/12 at 5:00am

Thanks. I thought that the Lyr was a bit out there as a comparison.  (6 watts, ECC88s...)

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post #107 of 118
1/19/12 at 9:22am

Yes the lyr was a bit out there, but I thought the sr71b would be too honestly...and to re-clarify, we are discussing in terms of an lcd-2r2 pairing with the all amps discussed right?  If so, Ill be ordering the balanced card very soon, thank you.

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post #108 of 118
1/19/12 at 10:08am

I was referring to the LCD R2 with SR 71B

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post #109 of 118
1/19/12 at 10:31am

Good to hear then, have heard the sr71b with the lcd-2s and its fantastic, if its close to that in that portable of a set up then thats awesome

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post #110 of 118
1/19/12 at 11:31am
The HM-801 with balanced module is a great one box solution. I would have liked longer battery life though (get at most about 5 hours). My biggest gripe is with the unstable support for hires flac formats and the lack of gapless meaning that I have to spend a fair bit of time processing files before loading the unit
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post #111 of 118
1/19/12 at 3:19pm

wonder if they could upgrade firmware to incorporate gapless one day?, that is a big one for me as most all of my music is live shows...

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post #112 of 118
1/19/12 at 3:58pm

just read about rockbox working pretty well with the 801 now, it has gapless....

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post #113 of 118
1/19/12 at 4:03pm
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Originally Posted by moss23 View Post

just read about rockbox working pretty well with the 801 now, it has gapless....
Interesting. Where did you see it?
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post #114 of 118
1/19/12 at 6:37pm

theres a thread here on it

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post #115 of 118
1/22/12 at 12:46pm

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Originally Posted by moss23 View Post

theres a thread here on it


http://www.head-fi.org/t/579759/how-to-installing-and-uninstalling-rockbox-to-the-hifiman-hm-801-603-602-and-601

http://www.head-fi.org/t/576970/rockbox-for-hifiman-hm601-and-for-hm801

One of these? In that case "working pretty well" is not my impression from reading those threads. My impression is that people have - with some stress - gone back to the HiFiMan firmware because it's better than with the bugs still present in RockBox.

 

As I understand it, RockBox eats more power than the stock firmware and it won't play 24-bit files.

 

 

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post #116 of 118
6/11/12 at 5:19pm
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http://www.head-fi.org/t/579759/how-to-installing-and-uninstalling-rockbox-to-the-hifiman-hm-801-603-602-and-601

http://www.head-fi.org/t/576970/rockbox-for-hifiman-hm601-and-for-hm801

One of these? In that case "working pretty well" is not my impression from reading those threads. My impression is that people have - with some stress - gone back to the HiFiMan firmware because it's better than with the bugs still present in RockBox.

 

As I understand it, RockBox eats more power than the stock firmware and it won't play 24-bit files.

 

 

 

Firmware Rockbox always supported 24 bit files. The latest version of the CPU load slightly greater than in the original firmware.
 


Edited by Lapohvatov - 6/11/12 at 5:46pm
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post #117 of 118
6/11/12 at 5:37pm

Why do you need 24-bit? I do not think that you have such golden ears that differ from their 16-bit.biggrin.gif


Edited by Lapohvatov - 6/11/12 at 5:47pm
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post #118 of 118
6/11/12 at 10:00pm
You don't need golden ears to hear the benefit of good hires files. Previously RockBox has always played hires files but downsampled them to 16/44, I don't know what the HM-801 version does
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