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A little about the Shozy Alien
Jan 2, 2017 at 3:45 PM Post #2,986 of 3,124
kangeki said:
Is your Mac running with Mac OS X ? It seems it is supposed to propose the option to format in Fat32 even if the card is > 32 Gio.

However, Windows does not give the option to format in Fat32 for > 32 Gio cards.

(Gio and not Go according to Wikipedia. Please see Wikipedia's article on Octen (Computing), section "Unit multiples", but I believe in our case it does not make such a difference)

Maybe is it linked to SDXC ?

Anyway, have you tried to use guiformat like stated previously ? It can force Fat32 on SDXC cards. Your computer may find it is a problem but you can just ignore it and copy your files, it will be ok.
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maybe there's a problem with your micro SD?
 
Jan 10, 2017 at 4:31 AM Post #2,995 of 3,124
^ Not sure how that's relevant? Zishan DSD is a special case with AK4495SEQ, Native DSD, Dual crystal clocks, Os-con filter caps, Elna output caps, TI buffers, +/-9V power supply etc.. I doubt shozy packed this new dap with hardware like the zishan, shozy always go for really simple circuit designs...
 
At the same price of the new Alien+ (1500CNY) there is the Smart D200 with unique 7V DAC supply voltage (AK4495SEQ) and +/-10.5V Class A amp. The alien+ likely runs the DAC at standard 5V supply voltage and uses some kind of all-in-one amp chip like shozy often do with their products, but I hope that's not the case and they have gone with something better for alien+
 
If only shozy show some PCB pics of the new alien+ to give people an idea of what they were aiming for with it's design, otherwise if all I have is the outside of the dap to look at then I can only go by their previous products which I wasn't a fan of.
 
Jan 10, 2017 at 4:40 AM Post #2,996 of 3,124
t.r.a.n.c.e. said:
  ^ Not sure how that's relevant? Zishan DSD is a special case with AK4495SEQ, Native DSD, Dual crystal clocks, Os-con filter caps, Elna output caps, TI buffers, +/-9V power supply etc.. I doubt shozy packed this new dap with hardware like the zishan, shozy always go for really simple circuit designs...
 
At the same price of the new Alien+ (1500CNY) there is the Smart D200 with unique 7V DAC supply voltage (AK4495SEQ) and +/-10.5V Class A amp. The alien+ likely runs the DAC at standard 5V supply voltage and uses some kind of all-in-one amp chip like shozy often do with their products, but I hope that's not the case and they have gone with something better for alien+
 
If only shozy show some PCB pics of the new alien+ to give people an idea of what they were aiming for with it's design, otherwise if all I have is the outside of the dap to look at then I can only go by their previous products which I wasn't a fan of.
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What I mean is that specs are not everything. The sound tuning is very important. Unless you don't believe such thing exists.
 
Jan 10, 2017 at 5:03 AM Post #2,998 of 3,124
holypal said:
  What I mean is that specs are not everything. The sound tuning is very important. Unless you don't believe such thing exists.
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Yes tuning is very important. But tuning is actually just trial and error of using different hardware and software configurations, that's why the hardware is very important. There is no magic Shozy tuning, only the sum of the parts they have chosen and how well they have implemented those parts by way of power supply, dac timing, circuitry layout etc.
 
Shozy is actually good at implementing their chosen parts, my issue is that their chosen parts are often not what I'd go with.
 
Jan 10, 2017 at 5:58 AM Post #2,999 of 3,124
t.r.a.n.c.e. said:
holypal said:
 What I mean is that specs are not everything. The sound tuning is very important. Unless you don't believe such thing exists.
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Yes tuning is very important. But tuning is actually just trial and error of using different hardware and software configurations, that's why the hardware is very important. There is no magic Shozy tuning, only the sum of the parts they have chosen and how well they have implemented those parts by way of power supply, dac timing, circuitry layout etc.
 
Shozy is actually good at implementing their chosen parts, my issue is that their chosen parts are often not what I'd go with.
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Isn't the result more important than how that result is done from the customer point of view ? Should we ignore the engineering immaterial choices made behind a product ?

In the end, you compare the final product itself with the others from the market anyway.

For the components, the main consequences may be things like durability, aren't they ?
 
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