Tayyab Pirzada
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I don't have use for a DAC anyway as my music listening is directly out of my AK Jr. And its slim form factor is awesome for portable use.
Astell & Kern Junior (AK Jr.) Impressions Thread
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gravicap
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AK Jr's firmware upgrade is AK70
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I dont understand. Is AK70 firmware fits for AK Jr?
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No, I mean iRiver upgraded Jr to AK70 (incl. fixing firmware) so they think they are ok with all that.
Kind of irony.
Kind of irony.
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Oh, I see... it seems they will never release a new one for Jr ( It's been a long time since last update.
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As a first impression of their offerings, I doubt I would consider moving up their line.
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I've a 3 year old Macbook Pro and it has both USB2.0 and USB 3.0 if I'm right.
Astell & Kern are really pathetic in support and also when it comes to releasing firmware upgrades. However AK100ii got some firmware upgrades, but with AK Jr not much. But the form factor and sound quality is very good with AK Jr. But for the exorbitant money that AK charges for their products, they should do a better job with customer support and firmware.
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I suspect you have USB 3.0 since that arrived on MBP's in 2012. If you are looking to get the Jr. DAC function working with your mac there is are instructions in the AK240 thread.
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Please link to the AK240 solution. After spending an evening last year sifting through that thread myself, the solution DID NOT work.
The bottom line is AK should have worked on a firmware update, they advertised an option that did not work with a large portion of up to date computers. All my other USB DAC's work fine with my 2013 MacBook Air...
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Agreed. They should never have advertised the Jr.'s flaky 'dac' function.
We've all been saying for the past year the Jr. definitely needs new firmware. But it seems A&K doesn't think their lowest price player is worth the time.
I have a dozen computers (including several old netbooks, deaktops, laptops, and tablets). However, I've only gotten the dac feature to work on 2 or 3 of them (and even those only work with it sometimes).
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I feel like the real update to AK Jr was the AK70
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AK70 has CS4398 which usually sounds dead to me. Would be great if they did AK70 with dual mono on wolfsons.
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Anyone know how my music can show up in the 'songs' 'albums' 'artists' 'genres' in the home menu?
All my music just shows up in the 'folders' part
All my music just shows up in the 'folders' part
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And is there a way to use the micro usb for Audio out, instead of the headphone jack at the top?
Thankfully I've had no issue with using it as a dac, my computer has 3 slots, 1x 3.0 And 2 x 2.0
As long as I don't use the 3.0 I am good.
I am loving this little player more and more everyday!
Cheers to all of you,
Thankfully I've had no issue with using it as a dac, my computer has 3 slots, 1x 3.0 And 2 x 2.0
As long as I don't use the 3.0 I am good.
I am loving this little player more and more everyday!
Cheers to all of you,
linux4ever
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AK Jr doesn't support usb audio out.
Ak100ii, ak120ii etc are to get a firmware update to get usb audio out feature like in ak70. This is per astell & kern. A video link is available somewhere in this forum.
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