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EDIT: preorder placed with Audio Concierge!
EDIT: preorder placed with Audio Concierge!
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Unfortunately an iPhone, Android Phone or tablet IS required. Just like the Poly/Mojo which I have. It normally sits idle as my DAP does everything it can except for the Roon integration which is very nice if you are using around the house mobile.
What's the point of adding SD cards ports if you can't play what's on them without a smartphone or an iPad?
who does NOT own a smartphone? the whole point is that phones will keep coming out, and will still be able to control these Chord devices no matter what. DAPs have limited lifespans based on technology, GoFigure is immune from that if it's controlled from the current iteration of any smartphone on the market. it's the best remote control.
I don't own a smartphone.
And I have no immediate plans to buy one either.
I have a small Samsung mobile phone which I use for phone calls.
A really small foldable little thing that fits easily in basically any pocket.
I paid 30€ for it and it is and was an open phone not locked to any specific company or subscription based plan.
I can fit it with any simcard i want and need whereever I happen to be on my travels and make calls all over the world much cheaper than via any locked iPhone pushed on easily fooled consumers at 20-30 times the price of my phone.
Besides the whole idea of portable with DAPs and potentially, but not in practice with H2/2Go for me would be to have ONE small portable unit that does ONE thing VERY well, without need for other accessories, playback music stored either internally or on sd card.
And regarding lifespan do these two toys run on H2s battery or how are they powered?
If they run on internal batteries I hope they have at least made them user exhangable when they die, which they will inevitably do one day.
My Hugo 1 died a few months ago and needs to be sent to Chord for a new battery at about the same price some all in one,smart unit DAPs sell for. How smart is that from a consumer and user point of view?
I don't like it when planned obsolence can be suspected from any company.
But I'd be interested to know in more detail than your:"based on technology" what makes specifically DAPs susceptible to limited lifespan?
Cheers CC
For those who don't know, RAMdisk is one of the most high-performance methods for audiophiles in the world, and although I've never read anything about it in this forum and only have a personal friend who has tested before me, I've read a lot, a lot , much information in international scope, where it seems that the theme is more evolved. Reducing latency and high throughput is only a small part of the benefits. If that weren't enough, I've never heard any "original" setup, with SSD, SD card, M.2, or anything else, that delivers audio quality as good as RAMdisk. For me, it's the best, but what I don't know is if there are different RAM models that deliver different sonorities (Corsair vs. Kingston; Kingston vs. Crucial; Corsair vs. GSkill; e.g.).
The Bryston BDP-Pi digital music players let you hear a perfect replica of high resolution studio masters with incredible detail and breathtaking realism.