great, thank you for the details. I forgot about the 400 pages long X3 thread! gonna read a bit there  

ClieOS, just read your first post. Thanks for that. E17 owner here. I'm struggling between keeping my e17 and use it with android smartphone (usb otg, ending with a bulky brick) or simply sell it and buy x3.   My collection is all flac, but 24bit/96k are starting to grow.   I find myself...

3 questions about Sony xperia Z (the smartphone, not the ultra, not the tablet and not the z1) and Fiio E17 (500mA)   does it work with Fiio E17 without hub? (the only video I found was using hub but there was a floppy disk connected too xD...

sry if already stated... have you tried the G2 with usb dac? just to know if it allows 24 bit or not via usb .

Well the nexus-5 is out. Some interesting news about audio...   Google has introduced audio tunnelling to DSP in Android 4.4. There is a DSP processor on nexus 5 that decodes audio, instead of using CPU for this. This saves a lot of battery, allowing to double the playback time (on same...

Quote: It could be your android version! I see meizu uses android 2.x. There were kernel updates about usb_audio in Jelly Bean (4.x).   -Who tried this on JB?   I mean: Android phone ---> small usb to spdif converter ----> SPDIF coax cable ---> into Fiio E17 spdif in  ---->...