Came back from a week trip to find my r8 battery at 10%. Is that normal? Charged it to 36% and tried to listen while it was charging. Nothing! No sound. Can’t get it to even show its playing. Plays fine if I remove charging cable. Any help would be appreciated. I’m getting a bad taste about a...

Wanted to play DSD 512 files on a FIIO m15 using a MAC and a Denafrips DAC. Seems like it can’t be done. What a bummer. Would have been nice if Fiio had been more up front about this!

Blue Jeans Cable

The Iris is around 200+ hours and starting to mellow out. Big relief And glad I put faith in Alvin

About 100 hrs on the Iris. My SU 1 died. Using it with a HoloSprings 2 and a PrimaLuna Evo. I enjoyed the sound this combo with the Singxer gave me. So far I’m finding the Iris to be brittle; the highs a bit raw. To me it’s not a sweet, smooth musical sound. Like I say, it’s only my fourth day...

Wonder how long it will be before the Pontus ships with the new DSP board they include now with the Terminator?

I didn't realize there was a shipping charge.How much is it?

I am looking forward to a review of the Potus vs the Aries. I wonder what we get for the xtra $800 other then the beauty of of the best. Trying to decide of course which one to buy and too eager to wait for the reviews.

I have JRiver 22 which has started to misfire since they have released JRiver 23. I used to have JRiver 21 which started to misfire when they released 22. Coincidence?? I don't know, but I sure feel like I'm being had. I would be interested to hear if anyone else has started having problems...

Maybe my computer is a lemon

FWIW I use a Supra $50 USB cable which I love. I was turned on to Supra by the talented folks are Botlehead, who think its good stuff.

Hi Max, I use a MacBook pro with a Gustard 20 playing mostly 256 DSD and up sample PCM to DSD 256 using JRiver. I had a lot of problems with my USB output on the Mac. With me they just didn't cut it. I solved the problem by buying a OWC Thunderbolt Dock. Thunderbolt out of the MAC and then usb...