It is simple - and no, you are wrong.   Apps are written to "write" to some number of channels (2 in this case - "left" and "right", in a surround-sound setup it might be 5, 6, 7, 8, or more channels). Dual architecture is about what happens AFTER that. The app does not know and does not...

  Displaying a JPG image will not add any new distortion. It will display at the same quality every time and will not degrade. The only place where JPG images degrade progressively is when you EDIT them.

​It does not work for a lot of us. Large libraries with properly-tagged files (including embedded artwork). On a collection with ~ 14000 files on 2x200GB cards, the unit freezes scanning somewhere between 6000 and 8000 typically...but sometimes less. But it NEVER gets through all the tracks,

​OK- so what is the nominal current for the lineout?

    Apparently, the DN-4001 headphones - and that's it. That seems to be the point behind the AM6. It seems to be specifically designed to drive the DN-4001 headphones, which have some unusual needs - like discrete signals for high and low frequency content for each ear = 4 signal...

You need to realize that there are no "balanced or unbalanced" headphones. Just about any set of phones, from cans to IEMs (except electrostatics, which I explicitly exclude for now) can be either balanced or unbalanced. What makes them balanced or unbalanced is merely the cable and which jack...

Plex can be set to do anything you want - including, most importantly, leave the source media the %^&* alone. Yes - Plex can serve up as-high a rez as you care to serve up. So can any other decently-build DLNA server. All you have to do it make sure to turn transcoding OFF, so that exactly what...

They're in kind of a grey area - only 45-ohm impedance (good for planars) but only 90dB of sensitivity - so not all that efficient. Hence the "leaning toward..." idea.

I have a set of HE-560s, which are supposedly leaning to the "easy-to-drive" side of things. They benefit substantially from the increased power of the AM5 and even more so with the increased voltage swing in the balanced output of the AM3. The AM1, even at full volume, could not drive these at...

This will work fine - you plug your 4-conductor TRRS headphone cable into an adapter of some kind (cable-based or just a pure connector-pair - does not matter) and it ties both of the (-) leads from the headphone cable to the earth/ground (sleeve) on the unbalanced jack. This is really all the...

James,   If you guys would consider the following - this is how other, more sophisticated players geared for larger libraries tend to work (or something very similar):   Firstly - PLEASE put artist and album inside genre for browsing. Don't just go from genre to song. It is pretty much...

I am assuming that you got a cable with a 2.5mm connector and not a 3.5mm TRRS connector - as that would mean you are plugging into the unbalanced output and that would cause exactly the problem you are experiencing. That said - I am just double-checking...   It could be either. You probably...

If you set "Artist" to "Various Artists" and then don't use album artist for your compilations, then you will not have the problem I described, but you will lose the track-by-track info of who that performer on that track is. If that works for you, then you will have not problem.   I have a...

I have the 1st-gen X5 and I do not have your phones. I can tell you that neither the X5 nor the unbalanced output of the DP-X1 could drive my cans (HiFiMan HE-560) well at all. I have an E12 stacked with the X5 and that takes care of it. The balanced output of the DP-X1 (I had to make a cable...

The audio file tagging structure is defined by the various ID3 standards and is a function of the music files themselves and not the players. So yes - they both expect/process file tags.   What IS different is how the tags are used by the player to enable you to navigate through your music...