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To answer your question, I say "Yes". Because DAP are all made to be solid and stay put, in the mean while our technologies is progressing faster and faster. DAP became so lagging behind. The non-upgradable components such as DAC+AMP results in people upgrading their DAP every year, even shorter time than that.
James, you know what I had been thinking about ? Something that can be lightning fast in reading and processing + upgradable modules that has DAC+AMP.
1/ a high processing power that can be so snappy with android OS or window 10 or Linux...doesn't matter. Just need it to be extremely fast, and we are talking about Exynos 8820 or Mediatek or so, 4GB of Ram. Exactly like that of the "flagship smartphone". Bluetooth, wifi, then separated it, shielded it inside a good shielding metal such as aluminum outside on the surface and plated copper inside for stronger shielding purposes. It can output "Optical, USB-C, lightning" Port. It needs huge storage built-in and expansion slots. It needs no DAC on in itself. It could come with a small Standard DAC+Amp Module.
2/ Modules, now, since the transport will only process the Data at the "fastest speed" so the module mechanism will be made available to another section of Dedicated DAC + AMP within the Modules. Since the DAC+Amps modules are shielded and separated from the Transport (shielded), the interferences should be non-existence, and beside when Data transferring speed "affect less by conductivity", the copper terminals and pinnacles receptacles will not affect the "Analog signals quality"
3/ The 2 above combined, we have a transport that is free of bound from integrated DAC (snapdragon ?), we have the friendly OS that 3rd party developers can possibly release software for playbacks. We get the wireless capability as well.
I am thinking this is very very much plausible, since China smartphone like Vivo are all packing huge specs and at lower price. Such transports like this will possibly be $350-500 range. Then the DAC+Amp module can cost another $400-1500...whatever, however the marketing, price/performance is justified.
Then, we will have a Future Proof Transport, with the "amp+DAC" that is timeless in the future even if the next generation transport could be made more powerful, these modules will still work on it. But the direction that people is heading now with newer portable digital processing prowess like ESS, there will be newer DAC and OpAmp every year or so. It will be good to have a Powerhouse of processing power, then people need to only upgrade DAC+AMP
Everything is pretty much like X7 and G5.....but only different is that we have 2 parts (Processing, reading powerhouse, and then removable/replaceable DAC+Amp). People can also transport it to many other things
. Totally audiophile grades with solid shielding and body
James, you know what I had been thinking about ? Something that can be lightning fast in reading and processing + upgradable modules that has DAC+AMP.
1/ a high processing power that can be so snappy with android OS or window 10 or Linux...doesn't matter. Just need it to be extremely fast, and we are talking about Exynos 8820 or Mediatek or so, 4GB of Ram. Exactly like that of the "flagship smartphone". Bluetooth, wifi, then separated it, shielded it inside a good shielding metal such as aluminum outside on the surface and plated copper inside for stronger shielding purposes. It can output "Optical, USB-C, lightning" Port. It needs huge storage built-in and expansion slots. It needs no DAC on in itself. It could come with a small Standard DAC+Amp Module.
2/ Modules, now, since the transport will only process the Data at the "fastest speed" so the module mechanism will be made available to another section of Dedicated DAC + AMP within the Modules. Since the DAC+Amps modules are shielded and separated from the Transport (shielded), the interferences should be non-existence, and beside when Data transferring speed "affect less by conductivity", the copper terminals and pinnacles receptacles will not affect the "Analog signals quality"
3/ The 2 above combined, we have a transport that is free of bound from integrated DAC (snapdragon ?), we have the friendly OS that 3rd party developers can possibly release software for playbacks. We get the wireless capability as well.
I am thinking this is very very much plausible, since China smartphone like Vivo are all packing huge specs and at lower price. Such transports like this will possibly be $350-500 range. Then the DAC+Amp module can cost another $400-1500...whatever, however the marketing, price/performance is justified.
Then, we will have a Future Proof Transport, with the "amp+DAC" that is timeless in the future even if the next generation transport could be made more powerful, these modules will still work on it. But the direction that people is heading now with newer portable digital processing prowess like ESS, there will be newer DAC and OpAmp every year or so. It will be good to have a Powerhouse of processing power, then people need to only upgrade DAC+AMP
Everything is pretty much like X7 and G5.....but only different is that we have 2 parts (Processing, reading powerhouse, and then removable/replaceable DAC+Amp). People can also transport it to many other things
. Totally audiophile grades with solid shielding and body
