[SilverEars]

It has smd capacitors, the yellow, and I believe red is also a capacitor.  I'm just curious how it's beneficial not having coupling capacitors for bipolar output.  James? 

  You there?

 

 

[Ripvanlink]

 

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Ripvanlink, there have been many of us who simply copy the FW file to the root of the card (64gb up to 128gb) without removing any music folders and it has worked flawlessly. I agree that if there is an album that wasn't mastered well the X5 will show you easily. On the flip side, well mastered music sounds great!

You should give it about 40 hours of burn-in time. It will settle down a bit.

Enjoy!

Yes, thank you, I am aware of the burn-in time of electronics and I actually am liking the sound already...very much! As far as updating the fw, I was referring to the actual directions the X5 came with which I followed to the letter, not wishing to have any screwups and I'm thankful that everything worked perfectly, er... except for that damn screen protector, lol. The directions were pretty good, considering the country of origin.
I'm already enjoying the X5, it is truly a classy thing and has a reassuring heft, doesn't it? I'm so happy I got it and the UI I find to be very good and intuitive which is remarkable for this industry.

 

[x RELIC x]

SilverEars That's what I thought they were but your post threw me off.

Curious as well. My guess would be a more stable power supply?

 

[x RELIC x]

Yes, thank you, I am aware of the burn-in time of electronics and I actually am liking the sound already...very much! As far as updating the fw, I was referring to the actual directions the X5 came with which I followed to the letter, not wishing to have any screwups and I'm thankful that everything worked perfectly, er... except for that damn screen protector, lol. The directions were pretty good, considering the country of origin.
I'm already enjoying the X5, it is truly a classy thing and has a reassuring heft, doesn't it? I'm so happy I got it and the UI I find to be very good and intuitive which is remarkable for this industry.

My X3 had the same thing happen with the screen protector. I just used a knife to pry the two layers apart as tape didn't work when I tried it.

I prefer the heft of the X5 to the feather light X3. Always felt like the X3 was going to slip out of my hand hahaha.

 

[BeBop Lives]

  I'm slowly climbing the ladder. Trying not to run up it (and somewhat succeeding so far!).

Try to remember that opinions are just that, and the best way as I think you see, is to try and audition the equipment yourself.  There is no substitute for your opinion after hearing what works, or not.  Enjoy!!

 

[Ripvanlink]

My X3 had the same thing happen with the screen protector. I just used a knife to pry the two layers apart as tape didn't work when I tried it.

I prefer the heft of the X5 to the feather light X3. Always felt like the X3 was going to slip out of my hand hahaha.

If I'd only paid attention to the writing on the tab, which said: peel off this mask after application completed, I would have known, but strange with all that pulling I had to do that the mask didn't peel off anyway.
I prefer the heft anyway b/c it reveals something substantial, don't you think?

 

[bubba-ho-tep]

I've done a thread search but haven't found an answer to this, so my apologies if this has already been addressed:
 
Transfer speeds from my hard drive to the X5 with the memory cards installed is very slow (approx 2900 kbytes/s).  When I take the card out of the X5 and do the transfer via one of my card readers, the rate is much faster (approx. 10,000 kbytes/s).  Is there a reason for this?  I'd prefer to leave my cards installed in the X5 for transferring files, but not if it's going to slow down the transfer speed to that extent.

 

[musicheaven]

I've done a thread search but haven't found an answer to this, so my apologies if this has already been addressed:

Transfer speeds from my hard drive to the X5 with the memory cards installed is very slow (approx 2900 kbytes/s).  When I take the card out of the X5 and do the transfer via one of my card readers, the rate is much faster (approx. 10,000 kbytes/s).  Is there a reason for this?  I'd prefer to leave my cards installed in the X5 for transferring files, but not if it's going to slow down the transfer speed to that extent.

It's by design, the X5 card reader speed is about 1/3 of the one you get directly using the USB micro card reader. I get in my case roughly a little more than 3 mb/s. I always use the FiiO card reader to load sizable amount of files. For just few small ones, I use the X5 directly instead. It should make the scanning relatively fast when using the X5.

 

[H20Fidelity]

Fastest source I've ever owned for transfers is Sony NWZ-F806. Like lightening.

Just sayin........ 

 

[musicheaven]

USB 2.0 has limitations, definitively not lightning speed. Somehow if you could get faster microcards on USB 3.0 then you'd have faster transfers. I get some improvements using my USB 3.0 capable micro card reader but the microcard speed becomes the bottleneck.

 

[H20Fidelity]

USB 2.0 has limitations, definitively not lightning speed. Somehow if you could get faster microcards on USB 3.0 then you'd have faster transfers. I get some improvements using my USB 3.0 capable micro card reader but the microcard speed becomes the bottleneck.

Lightening.... with a touch of sarcasm.


 

I never did any transfers with X5 on my demo, though if you want slow, Colorfly C3 wins for lack of speed. Like dial up from 1999.

 

[CH23]

Just noticed something which annoys me:

Album art is made to fit from side to side, instead of top to bottom, so it doesn't show the whole thing.

jamesFiiO Could this be changed?

(I am fully aware of the bugzilla page, but it seems to have come to a standstill)

 

[zilch0md]

In case some of us aren't following the Deals thread:
 

SanDisk Ultra 64GB MicroSDXC Class 10 UHS Memory Card with Adapter - $29.99 - a "Best Price" according to CamelCamelCamel:

 
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AND...
 

SanDisk Ultra 32GB MicroSDXC Class 10 UHS Memory Card with Adapter - $14.99 - a "Best Price" according to CamelCamelCamel:

 
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Mike

 

[Age8E]

EDIT: Whoops, too slow.

 

[Nicolas2305]

For those looking.
 
The Amazon micro SDXC 128 Gb is back at $99.99 here is the link.