I kinda feel for the people who have quality issues. As they don't impact the sound at all, they would be irrelevant for me, but I do understand some really appreciate great craftmanshift. I get so much pleasure listening to these (and this is such an egocentric pleasure for me), that a few...

Absolutely love these... 

#01228 here and no cosmetic issues to report - I couldn't care less anyway - so probably early batch? Only starting to listening now and I absolutely love those. Coming from a Bitfrost and Sony PHA-2 as amp (waiting for the Lyr2 to come)... They sound somehow better than my D5000. Tighter, more...

Well, it is back on on Massdrop. ​

I went with the TH-X00 as well and I agree, the matt finish is much better. I also like the detachable cable. I have the Denon 5000 and they're developing a fault and it's just a pain to get these fixed... But I doubt these will be on par re. price with the TH-X00. They'll be $600-$700 RRP I...

To be fair to Cowon:   1 - they build their DAP in Korea 2 - they do have a nicely price model (Plenue D) which probably does what the S does and more (much better battery life, although the UI seems undepowered)   I started my DAP journey with Cowon and the X5 because I didn't want to deal...

Anyone found someone? Melbourne?

The docking station concept is interesting, although I don't get why they wouldn't add a 'regular' headphone in to it... I also hope you can use it as a DAC without the player as I suspect it will cost a fortune...   But then you may as well go and get a high end headphone amp.

Cowon Plenue D. There's a thread.

  Really keen to get your view on performance once you spend a bit more time with the player. I bought the plenue D3 back then and the thing was just horrid to use. The video did scare me a little but if someone confirms that every day use is fine - even if there is 'some' lag, then I might...

Given the price range, I would expect the quality to be descent. Anything more would basically mean that this will be a great value little player. Given the resistive screen has always been the key issue with the D2 / M2, that would make it a great little replacement.   Now, given that I have...

Nice to see that Cowon naming strategy continue to be non sensical... 

I thought by now people understood that portable music players were grossly overpriced and that they will continue to be this way until people stop spending that kind of money. Obviously Cowon must have sold enough of the P1 to warrant increasing the price on the follow up version. I won't buy...

My thoughts exactly. Seems more like audio porn than anything else.

No, haven't felt the need yet! ;)   Will try. Thanks.