<Renewed at 2012/03/12>The new HiFiMAN 802 & New UI named "Tai-Chi" - Page 23

Hifiman just annouced the releasing date for China.

They will start to take orders of 901 from 15/08/2012 (only eligible to 801 customers if you wish to exchange your 801 with some extra money to 901).

01/10/2012 for all customers.

Don't know how they will release 901 internationally though.

WANTED HM-801 -if you get the HM-901 I will happily take the old one off your hands.

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Originally Posted by LarsHP 


Any price mentioned?

RMB 5999 with standard amp card. That's about $940 without external stand, without other amp cards.

Here we go:

http://www.hifiman.cn/Article/?id=348

Some discussions in Chinese as well:

http://www.erji.net/read.php?tid=1285691

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Originally Posted by seeteeyou 

Here we go:

 

http://www.hifiman.cn/Article/?id=348

 

Some discussions in Chinese as well:

 

http://www.erji.net/read.php?tid=1285691

Any idea what that dock is? Looks interesting.

The OP of that thread @ erji.net mentioned that dock should have USB input, coaxial out, optical out, and line out.

I guess that idea is a portable source gear when undocked, and transform that to a dedicated source component with the dock at home.

More convenient and elegant to organize the connections that way. Looking forward to official pricing of each component and hopefully DAC chip might be able to decode DSD natively.

It's not about whether you are a owner or not owner of 801. If you want to preorder you have to have one 801 send back to the company. because they need that chip.

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Originally Posted by tupac0306 

It's not about whether you are a owner or not owner of 801. If you want to preorder you have to have one 801 send back to the company. because they need that chip.

That is incorrect. I am the owner of a secondhand HM-801, and it's not eligible for the upgrade, as I am not the original buyer.

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Originally Posted by Benjamin6264 

That is incorrect. I am the owner of a secondhand HM-801, and it's not eligible for the upgrade, as I am not the original buyer.

 Hmm really? who told you that? The update from hifiman didn't state anything about secondhand owner or original buyer. They just said send the 801 back if you wish to exchange 901. Also how will they know whether you are orignial buyer or not?

Simple, if you can't provide the invoice/receipt when ordered, you're SOL.  A lot of second/third hand sales don't include a receipt/invoice. Even if it did, its up to the merchant to honor the warranty/trade or not, which there's a high probability that they won't.

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Originally Posted by tupac0306 

 Hmm really? who told you that? The update from hifiman didn't state anything about secondhand owner or original buyer. They just said send the 801 back if you wish to exchange 901. Also how will they know whether you are orignial buyer or not?

Mrs. T told me this. I am currently in the process of getting a replacement for my HM-801, which stopped functioning. I suggested the upgrade thinking that they might be out of HM-801's for replacements, which is when she explained me that I could only do that if I was the original buyer.