I see that the 256gb card is available on Amazon and has been for some time. Frankly the 200gb holds a lot and is cheap now. I often don't even use the second slot on my daps that have it. 200 and some internal memory for some really favorite albums and for me, I am set. There is no way I would get my collection on 2 cards anyway, since I have a few TB of albums.
To those who disappointed by only one slot, I remind you that Fiio had faced exactly the same problem with X7 design: with all the bells and whistles (Bluetooth and Wi-Fi included) they run out of free I/O SoC interfaces, and ended up with only one microSD slot. To connect two SD slots to one SoC interface, a "bridge chip" is required, that consumes power and takes additional space.
As I understand, the problem that iBasso faced is exactly the same. It wasn't a problem for them to implement two slots in DX80, but DX80 does not have Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.
Onkyo DP-X1 has two slots, but it uses Qualcomm SoC, not a RockChip.
Taking what you say as correct then iBasso would have known from the start since they chose the Rockchip and were well aware of it's 'limitations' that they could only implement one mSD slot so why promise 2?
To those who disappointed by only one slot, I remind you that Fiio had faced exactly the same problem with X7 design: with all the bells and whistles (Bluetooth and Wi-Fi included) they run out of free I/O SoC interfaces, and ended up with only one microSD slot. To connect two SD slots to one SoC interface, a "bridge chip" is required, that consumes power and takes additional space.
As I understand, the problem that iBasso faced is exactly the same. It wasn't a problem for them to implement two slots in DX80, but DX80 does not have Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.
Onkyo DP-X1 has two slots, but it uses Qualcomm SoC, not a RockChip.
Taking what you say as correct then iBasso would have known from the start since they chose the Rockchip and were well aware of it's 'limitations' that they could only implement one mSD slot so why promise 2?
That original spec was posted on 12/17/15, that was too long ago. If you look at the first post on this thread, there is a prototype circuit board with 2 separate uSD slots. So the original intention was indeed to have two cards. Perhaps they ran into the same problem as X7, and had to make a decision between keeping 2 card slots or improving battery life. As I mentioned before, extra 100mA of drain can really affect your battery life.
That original spec was posted on 12/17/15, that was too long ago. If you look at the first post on this thread, there is a prototype circuit board with 2 separate uSD slots. So the original intention was indeed to have two cards. Perhaps they ran into the same problem as X7, and had to make a decision between keeping 2 card slots or improving battery life. As I mentioned before, extra 100mA of drain can really affect your battery life.
And any engineer worth their salt would have known that going in and not made that promise a year ago. Even if you don't want it to be called a promise, the decision was made a while ago to drop to 1 uSD. They could have told us then and people could have made other plans.
Within a couple hours of this announcement I pulled the trigger on a used AK240 and will unsubscribe from this thread. A year ago this sounded like the perfect DAP but vaporware devolved into reality.
And any engineer worth their salt would have known that going in and not made that promise a year ago. Even if you don't want it to be called a promise, the decision was made a while ago to drop to 1 uSD. They could have told us then and people could have made other plans.
Within a couple hours of this announcement I pulled the trigger on a used AK240 and will unsubscribe from this thread. A year ago this sounded like the perfect DAP but vaporware devolved into reality.
I agree with this, and I also think it is a mistake to announce DAPs a year in advance. You should announce a product a few months prior at most...otherwise you are just losing your audience.
I agree with this, and I also think it is a mistake to announce DAPs a year in advance. You should announce a product a few months prior at most...otherwise you are just losing your audience.
And any engineer worth their salt would have known that going in and not made that promise a year ago. Even if you don't want it to be called a promise, the decision was made a while ago to drop to 1 uSD. They could have told us then and people could have made other plans.
Within a couple hours of this announcement I pulled the trigger on a used AK240 and will unsubscribe from this thread. A year ago this sounded like the perfect DAP but vaporware devolved into reality.