I agree with you FATMAN. They all buy components from same factories. However the trick is (maybe ingenuity) to use well known components and make their player sounding so great ( different at least). I am curious how Hisoundaudio engineered their Studio V to play music 100 hours with one...

Frankly I have gave up dismantling my phones, players, speakers...after I destroyed a few of them. In the end my curiosity didn't help a lot. I couldn't change anything to make them perform better. As for the price of components it was published recently in the US print: all components in...

I must admit, now you caught me! Yes, English is not my native language, BTW I live in Europe, and maybe my expressions are not precise Aussie. I just want to clear one issue: do you open all equipment you use? Did you open your laptop and  see what Dell or HP or.... put inside? Did you open...

Dear SVYR, It is obvious that you hadn't a chance to spend more than several minutes in a recording studio during recording sessions and now you are enough  prepotent to teach me a lesson about my point of view regarding my qualifications to judge about sound quality of modern portable audio...

Well, I must highlight that I am not confronting myself with reviewers, however majority of them are missing the point. Do we want from our high fidelity unit a large color screen and pretty design OR a great sound? That is the key deference between iPod and Studio. All branded portable hifi...

I don't see a point to open it and find what chip they are using. I doubt that it is all in a single chip. There are number of components that can influence sound quality. I have spent number of years in a record industry as a producer and I see that you are all missing the major issue. Only the...