I have a pretty good Active Naim system and dedicated music server and would swear to you I can hear better dynamics and presence. Large discs on the server are not a problem these days ('m at about 8tb inc backups) and as well as any other consideration it's easier to down sample (e/g for the...

Can anybody recommend a good, reliable high capacity SD card ? I have over 1000 CDs ripped to 24bit/192khz and change the contents of the Pioneers' cards about once a month. The Samsung/Toshiba cards I have will only take 5 or 6 write cycles before giving up the ghost. (I don't think they...

I had a similar problem with my XDP-30R resulting in volume control failure - see my post #1039 earlier in this thread.

Actually reading the previous posts there is still not a definitive answer, Pioner say one Onkyo say both. Rereading internet reviews both dacs and both outputs is the common thread. I want to see a circuit diagram. The back simply prises off but only the battery and volume control can be seen.

I find this hard to believe and disappointing at the same time. Why package two expensive DACs and two output amps if only the balanced output benefits. A waste of money then for most users. Pioneer should be making this clear in their literature. So should reviewers. I demand a recount. May as...

I downloaded them It's very slow. The 2 zip files contain further zips (in tar format) but the tar files gave me data errors when I unpacked them on Windows. There seems to be a complete copy of linux 4.1-2xxxx , a boot loader of some sort but anything related to the Dap remains unfound or is in...

:-) I don't mind that I'm hearing differences that can't be there, it's keeping me happy at the moment.!

When my 30R volume control went awol I was using the "line out" with an inline attenuator and my 1More triple driver earphones. Now I've got the volume control fixed I could use the phones normally but I found I prefer the sound of the "line out". With the gain set to 'high' or 'normal' and the...

Having decided the volume control failure was unrelated to the firmware upgrade (apologies to Pioneer for doubting them) and hearing nothing from Pioneer support I decided to take the back off the player and take a look. (Its out of warranty.)... The volume knob was turning the shaft ok but...

My internal memory is so @@@@@ that even "reset to factory settings" does not not wipe the memory like the manual says it will. (See my comments earlier in the thread ) Further that option does not revert the firmware so you're stuck with whatever version you are on. Thanks for the thought though,

I can't find any other reported problems perhaps I'm jùst unlucky. The player seems to be a bit of a dud so far. Anyone had volume control problems outside of firmware upgrades ? I'm going to buy an inline volume control for the headphones and use the line out . I'll at least get some use out...

WARNING I installed the latest firmware (Version 1.21/18223AEP) on my 30R yesterday in the hope it would fix the internal memory problems I have been having. (See earlier in the thread.) However after the firmware installed my Volume control no longer works. The now familiar reset to factory...

So have you seen this note on pioneers support pages ... Open source notice This firmware includes open source software codes licensed under GNU General Public License 2 and/or GNU Lesser General Public License 2.1.. Detailed license notice, full license texts and machine readable copy of the...

The firmware doesn't want to re-flash. So the rename to "Internal" and associated reset to factory settings,try sd1 and2 , resync etc didn't help so I took the plunge and wiped the partition,recreated it, ran a surface test , washed and repeated. Not a single error on the surface test and no...

That's interesting. So rather than reformat I have for now changed the partition name to "Internal" and embarked on the whole revert to factory setting and re-sync a few times. If that doesn't work I will reformat. But somehow I don't think its going to help. The fact that resetting to factory...