Have not posted much of late mainly due to me having my perfect set up now and I'm just enjoying the music! Last night was one of those magical nights, high definition versions of some beautifully recorded mid century Beethoven and Resphgi through the TU-05/Glove-120 and Beyer T5P's. It all...

Hmm, the AK760 must be coming out soon so they are degrading the sound as they have done on previous players via firmware " upgrades".! :) Many of us with the 120 have gone back to previous firmware a even though initially we thought the new ones were better due to sound quality and...

Good choice Ben and I look forward to your thoughts on the pairing. Now you can have some fun reading through the thread and figure out some tubes to experiment with fine tuning the sound! Thankfully these are old radio tubes so not stratosphere pricing!

Completely agree about the graininess of the early LCD's my 2's have it but with a toxic cables silver poison it improved that aspect greatly plus I think an amp with good quality refined power suits the LCD's much better and the glove is that especially in my experience running in balanced. I...

Hi Ben. I have the LCD2's and TU05 and whilst the amp will drive them I personally would not recommend them as a match going by my experience. The sweet nature of the sound is lost for some reason when using the Audeze's. I think they need mor reserves of power to drive them truly well than the...

Ahh, got you now! In that case, yeah, wow, the Calyx is a serious impressive player and who would have thought even four years ago that we would be calling a $1000 player a "bargain"! :)

I saw you wrote your thoughts after I posted mine without reading yours and having heard the calyx as well would agree completely with you. I was just keeping my thoughts within the confines of choosing between Astell & Kern players. In truth if my set failed right now and would cost more to...

Not reall as the combined cost of the glove and 120 was $1800 as I purchased both new. I think though is that there are certainly differences where the 380 is superior but as we all know at this end of the spectrum the differences are not as night and day as say comparing a $200 player with a...

So I got to listen for a good number of hours this weekend to a friends 380 and compared it to my 120/glove set up listening unbalanced through my well burned innT5P's I am not going to bother with talk about price. If someone really wants this they will pay whatever it costs. Heck, people...

I just dropped in to ask when they would start going on sale and saw your post! Fantastic!

As a very happy owner of the 750's I am subscribed to this thread and looking forward to everyone's thoughts.

I have absolutely no idea, all I know is the difference is there!

Well, I want to thank Lee and all the other folks who recommended 1.32! I loathe hyperbole but I have to succumb to it with this reverse firmware change! The sound is more open and natural. Strings when plucked decay more gracefully. Percussion is tighter and has more snap and weight...

Thanks so much Lee. I have just loaded 1.32 and will report back after I listen to some familiar tracks!

I have not noticed a difference between horizontal or vertical but I do hear a small and improved difference in using some isolation under the amp. I also prefer to listen with one tube plate in place. With both in place I find the sound shrinks a little in scale but you get better protection...

Thanks for your thoughts folks, I will give it a go. I never got my unit modified as I had listened to a red wine mod and compared it to the glove and preferred the sound the glove makes plus if I ever see something that entices me away from the glove/A&K sound then it's going to be easier to...

For the technically minded here I would love to know if changing back to1.32 would make a sonic difference to me as I am using the glove and the 120 is from what I am aware now simply a transport.

Fantastic! They are worth the hunting out! As for matching, I have done a lot of reading about these old Radio Tubes and they are far less finicky when it comes to matched pairs than the bigger tubes thank goodness!

Biggest thing for me with this new firmware is that at long last if one wants to listen again to the track one has just listened to this player now behaves like it should and that is one press of the back button takes one back to the beginning of the track rather than how is used to be which was...

I understand that, one could not slip it into a pocket!

Goodvibes, If you get a chance you must try the glove. Sure it's a little more bulky but not by much and the sound quality is beautiful! Also, the amp has plenty of power, enough even to drive my LCD2's with ease and my ETY ER4S's which are very hard to drive well.

He did not say the player was a disservice but the reviewer was! And seriously, Any portable player should never be mentioned in the same breath as the DCS, that's almost sacrilege!

I think he mentioned some valid points that have not been brought up by other reviewers or press about this player for instances the player freezing up which to me is completely unacceptable at this price point and A&K's excuse was just as unacceptable. To me it shows that they have not listened...

Just read this very different account of the 380 after listening at this years high end 2015 show http://audiophileon.com/news/astell-kern-ak380-player

I purchased a pair of the non-remote ones yesterday though my local store has stopped selling them as he had a lot of returns due to the cable issue though after reading much here I found out this does not seem to be an issue with the non remote version. I wanted something to take the place of...