[Musicboy]

Where did you find the release date? 

 

[turokrocks]

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I take the iRiver, and it will be released in 2 days time in Korea.
Hope i can read some nice positive reviews about it.Price may still be $499-599, but we will see about that. Anyway the bulding quality of iRiver is awesome like the rest of their stuff.
Welcome back iRiver hope this will be something with a great SQ. But i will try X3 out if comes before Christmas this year.

 

[tds101]

^Wat HE said!!!^

 

[TiEx]

Interesting project. WM8740 is a good DAC if implementation is on a high level. Fingers crossed for a good, bug free firmware and fast, useful , easy menu. If X3 will beat Clip+ sonically, it can justify the double price difference between them. Heard somewhere about 100-150$ price target for X3. And battery life definetely should be more than 12-15h (~20h would be nice).

 

[turokrocks]

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Interesting project. WM8740 is a good DAC if implementation is on a high level. Fingers crossed for a good, bug free firmware and fast, useful , easy menu. If X3 will beat Clip+ sonically, it can justify the double price difference between them. Heard somewhere about 100-150$ price target for X3. And battery life definetely should be more than 12-15h (~20h would be nice).

 
Battery life is getting so ridiculous these days, except for the Walkman (Z and F series) which are considered one of the best in playing red-book as in  price/sq wise.
The min, should be 20 hours....almost all the Super daps in the market do not exceed 8 hour bench, knowing that the X3 will not be a super dap.....but we should wait and see...Good luck Fiio.
 
And please Fiio.....please...take your time to implement a good software/player for your player...we do not need another buggy player in the market.

 

[musicday]

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Where did you find the release date? 

Please check the link and read the forum:
Officially out October 10.
http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=zh-CN&u=http://bbs.imp3.net/forum.php%3Fmod%3Dviewthread%26action%3Dprintable%26tid%3D10788736&prev=/search%3Fq%3Diriver%2Bak100%26start%3D10%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26biw%3D1600%26bih%3D805%26prmd%3Dimvns&sa=X&ei=IUNzUK_4OMf80QXX7oHwCg&ved=0CDUQ7gEwAjgK

 

[stozzer123]

My god that looks awesome, cant wait for a sound report here.
 
Thanks for posting.

 

[AlexRoma]

After owning a 150$ Teclast T51 dual-wolfson monster, can't see any reason spending over 200$ for a WM8740 based DAP, even considering High-Ress...
 
If Iriver puts a price over 300$, I can't see any reason craving for that product. Let's be patient and wait good news from Fiio instead.

 

[tds101]

Actually, this is the FiiO thread. My intention wasn't derailment, it was to show my continued interest in the FiiO X3. I've never been disappointed by a FiiO product, I've sampled a few iriver's in the past and had been. They were too buggy,...

Now, how about we get back on topic, eh??? FiiO X3!!!

 

[lee730]

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Battery life is getting so ridiculous these days, except for the Walkman (Z and F series) which are considered one of the best in playing red-book as in  price/sq wise.
The min, should be 20 hours....almost all the Super daps in the market do not exceed 8 hour bench, knowing that the X3 will not be a super dap.....but we should wait and see...Good luck Fiio.
 
And please Fiio.....please...take your time to implement a good software/player for your player...we do not need another buggy player in the market.

Hisound Studio V (55 hours Lossless and 85 hours lossy).

 

[DigitalFreak]

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Hisound Studio V (55 hours Lossless and 85 hours lossy).

Yep, so far I'm on day 4 and as of today I've only lost one of 4 power bars. My stuff is all lossless by the way.

 

[lee730]

Also if you use the auto shutdown feature it will greatly extend the battery life. I've gone an entire month without charging it before .
 

 

[TiEx]

It is a real pity that a well regarded es9023 DAC chip doesn't appear in portable players like X3. It is a good sounding compact design with integrated I/V stage and jitter immune input. Also es9023  sells for only 1.68$ in large batch! 

 

[musicday]

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It is a real pity that a well regarded es9023 DAC chip doesn't appear in portable players like X3. It is a good sounding compact design with integrated I/V stage and jitter immune input. Also es9023  sells for only 1.68$ in large batch! 

I have an original idea.Let's all buy a ES9023 DAC chip and send them to Fiio and ask them to put it on X3.

 

[TiEx]

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I have an original idea.Let's all buy a ES9023 DAC chip and send them to Fiio and ask them to put it on X3.

+1 on that.
 
With a high quality digital volume control and a good headphone amp would be a killer setup.