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Is this the next flagship Hifi portable player from Hifiman?

post #1 of 17
7/20/12 at 8:05am
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This seems to be the next Flagship Hifi Portable player from Hifiman - HM-901. They showed a prototype at the spring NY meet, and it sounded very good.

 

Finally a picture with the dock has been released, although no spec info has been released officially. The word is that it's coming out on 10/1.

 

Imagine a system that can be used both on the road and at home. pretty neat idea I would say.

 

 

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post #2 of 17
7/20/12 at 9:38am

Sounds great. Any idea how much storage this bad boy packs? 

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post #3 of 17
7/25/12 at 8:24am
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no idea. I guess probably 8 GB. it supports both SDHC and SDXC cards, so you can easily drop in a large card. Personally i don't care about the onboard memory. Most of computers now come with SD card reader, so much easier to deal with the memory card.

 

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Originally Posted by Amfibius View Post

Sounds great. Any idea how much storage this bad boy packs? 

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post #4 of 17
7/25/12 at 9:42pm

Does it not have a screen???

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post #5 of 17
7/26/12 at 3:43am
Of course it has a screen, just not that obvious on the rendering. The R&D is almost done too, the first batch will be out in next few months.
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post #6 of 17
7/26/12 at 7:36am
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think RMAF.... ;-)

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post #7 of 17
7/26/12 at 9:14am

Looks very Batman.  Will it support OSX?

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post #8 of 17
7/26/12 at 10:28am

Scroll wheel for volume? Would be nice if it had a flip-cover like it appears in the render. Looks great.

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post #9 of 17
7/26/12 at 10:31am

Oh the dock actually looks nice! Any word on cost?
 

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post #10 of 17
7/26/12 at 10:52am
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Originally Posted by tzjin View Post

Oh the dock actually looks nice! Any word on cost?
 

What does the dock actually do? Does it have RCA out, amp,what are the specs? 

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post #11 of 17
7/26/12 at 11:22am

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Must have RCA as well.


Edited by devgru - 7/26/12 at 11:24am
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post #12 of 17
7/26/12 at 11:24am

So this player can fit anywhere in the chain. Looks fantastic.

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post #13 of 17
8/3/12 at 3:42pm
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yes. the current HM-801 supports OSX. Since now the USB module is built in the dock, i can imagine that they can do much more than what they did with HM-801. It means a much better USB implementation.

 

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Looks very Batman.  Will it support OSX?

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post #14 of 17
8/3/12 at 3:45pm
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Yup. that's what i was told. it will basically function like a full-size desktop DAC with the dock. All the input/output you normally get from a desktop DAC will be implemented on the dock.

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Must have RCA as well.

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post #15 of 17
9/15/12 at 3:05pm

There's a longstanding thread on the 901 here:

 

http://www.head-fi.org/t/597981/renewed-at-2012-03-12-the-new-hifiman-802-new-ui-named-tai-chi

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