I’ve heard people slag off the RT6863D amp used in the Zisan Z5. Personally, having bought several Chi-fi daps the best sounding was the Zishan Z4 (I missed out on the DSD AK4499) I have found the Z5 the best I’ve purchased so far: weighty and delicate sound. When and if the DSD 4499 returns (to...

Here’s my latest experience with my Zishan DSD. Foolishly, it took me ages to realise I had been sold the CS43198 version! So ignore my posts about the Dual AK4497 version! The CS43198 version is the one I experienced all the difficulty with FLAC files playing out of sequence in folders at...

So yes, all the individual composer folders play nicely. However now I have a problem with the collection of composers folder!!!! Grrrrr... Drilling down into one of the composer folders in the composer collection folder to any 5th level folder, e.g. /A - B/Arnold/Symphonies/No. 1/Handley...

It’s NOT the number of files or Gb of data. The Zishan can only handle about 40 top level folders!!! With 43 folders (43 composers) I get the track repeating and jumping problem. When I delete the last 6 composer folders (Vaughan Williams to Weinberg) the problem goes away. So I created a new...

Well, I found what the problem was with my Zishan DSD AK4497EQ (0.5d). The player wouldn’t go to next track with the first and second folder of FLAC files (9/10 for alliteration?) and sometimes it would jump to another track of a different folder of FLAC files! I deleted a tranche of folders...

Really kind of you to put this file up anucha! Is it only for the ES9038, or will it work on my AK4497EQ? If not, do you have the email address of Nicehck so I could contact them?

I cannot shake the impression that once a folder of FLAC files refuse to play in sequence then the exact path to these files is critical. I say this because overwriting these FLAC files in situ does not cure this problem. Perhaps the Zishan’s cache won’t forgive and forget? My recipe is this...

Oh my. It is the sd card at fault, not the Zishan, VLC Media Player had exactly the same problem stepping to Next, and some of the FLAC files are corrupted, playing sections of other FLAC files. What an unholy mess!!! it seems to me that it would be better to carry around 8 16 Gb sd cards than...

Well, continuing my saga. I decided to remove the first four directories (in the alphabetic recursive sort sequence) in which I'd experienced the play order issues (about 4 Gb of FLAC files) and recreated the first folder. Then I started placing the FLAC files back. The play sequence worked for...

I think this is the sort of organization the Acmee MF-01 requires. The Zishan and most every other DAP can have, say, /Composer/Symphonies/No.1/Conductor/01.Movement1.flac etc. The way my Zishan is going wrong it wouldn’t play the FLAC files in your scheme with one level of folder off the root...

Well, I only needed to copy over one folder with 3 FLAC files to a 32 Gb sd card which hitherto didn’t exhibit this problem. I was amazed to find that the Zishan still had the play sequence problem with those three FLAC files! I’ve examined the metadata with Audacity, and I can’t see any...

Thanks for the advice. Yes, the way this problem seems to be following the files around as I copy them back and forth from my external hard drive does suggest the issue is embedded in the structure of the files somehow. I like your idea of copying some of the problem files to another sd card...

Thank you for taking the time to reply. Unfortunately, I get a 404 clicking this link.

Yes, I've tried a few other players and they handle the card fine (F.Audio XS-02, ZIKU HD-X10, Yescool S5). More interestingly, I have another identical Zishan DSD Pro I bought at the same time as the one I'm using - and the card fails in that player in precisely the same way! Where I'm up to...

I have the AK4497EQ version of the Zishan DSD pro. It is indisputably the best value for money player I have ever heard. However, I did run into a problem which may be an sd card issue (checkdsk gives it a clean bill of health) or the player. I have a 128 Gb card with about 100 Gb of folders...