My bad you're right it's a $200 difference. Dpx1 is $600 on Amazon, 100r is $400. Dunno if the performance difference is worth $200...Curious how the aune m2 and m2 pro would stack up, even the m2s is more or less price competitive with the dp-x1.

fwiw, with computers these days typically the longest part of the cd ripping process is the pulling of the data from the cd. the increased resources for higher levels of flac compression, and while i use eac and haven't used ez cd, i only assume that the extra options in ez cd add an...

I got an exceptional deal on an Aune M2S, and am very happy with its performance - a significant improvement over the Fiio X5 II I had used before.   Regarding the XDP-100R and DP-X1, it seems they've undergone price drops at some relatively recent point, which closed the price gap between the...

My setup sounds really good to me:   Aune M2S > Audioquest Victoria 3.5mm  to RCA > Nuforce HA200 > Cardas Blue Litz cable > HD650 > Brainwavz angled velour pads (angle of the pads, imo, enhances soundstage, while the super thin fabric of these cups allows me to remove the stock foam insert of...

So would valhalla 2 be significantly better with hd650 over valhalla1? Also how would asgard 1 (my current amp) compare to asgard 2 with hd650? Maybe even asgard 2 vs valhalla 1? :thinking::nerd:

quote name="H20Fidelity" url="/t/809022/plugging-headphones-into-line-out-an-absolute-no-no#post_12598936"]With low impedance IEMs like 2000J its best to use a headphone out with low output impedance. The output impedance from a sources line out tends to be quite a bit higher, sometimes alot...

Hey guys, I tried plugging in my DN2000J into the line out port of my Fiio X3 1st gen, and lo and behold, the output volume is within my range of listening levels: I can comfortably listen to this for over the length of an album, probably for hours if I had as much time to be blissfully unaware...

I had not noticed james' words about the dac/amp still being up in the air. Personally i would be fine either way. Not including the dac/amp would not only be, as by james' admission, technically simpler, but if it were included, if the transport sounds good enough from the headphone jack to...

I think james is seeing it more through the perspective of "we can make a great pure transport that meets peoples design criteria and provides bit perfect digital audio feed at a reasonable cost, or for negligible more design and cost concerns we can provide the exact same thing with the...

    Is i t possible to have it switchable in the settings like the x3 and x5 are switchable from dac to storage mode? Then you can avoid some physical complexity.

  I dunno, I feel like it already looks pretty easy to feel the difference, in that one is up high and the other is down low and there's a smaller button separating them. If anything, just adding a type of texture to one button or the other would differentiate them well. Personally, I didn't...

Forgive my vagueness and admittedly I do not know all of the technical details behind this. What I simply meant was to inform them that they could not simply expect to be able to swap in a new DAC just because you can in the X3 first gen and that each upgrade should be considered on an...

Fiio x1 mod info http://www.head-fi.org/t/740302/fiio-x1-mods Fiio x3ii mod info: http://mingo-hmw.com/new/home/2067-fiio-x3ii-mod-service-.html Thats what i found with a quick google search guys. Seems opamp swaps can be done in those players too. Dac youll have to research a bit on. The...

Hey guys,   I came across ClieOS's Fiio X3 mod thread, where I read about replacing the AD8397 opamp with the AD8620, as well as replacing the Wolfson WM8740 DAC with WM8741. My soldering skills are rudimentary, at best. Besides that, it's been years since I've even touched a soldering iron...

Sledgeharvy, theres little point in giving so much focus of this device to the DAC/amp. These ideas should be considered for the Q5. Firstly, this doesnt need an amazing dac setup. Anyone who is getting this to use as a transport will have an external dac/amp anyway, and most of anyone else will...

That is exactly the kind of thing I was hoping someone would say. I would love for there to be a way for FiiO to make a product competitive with the MoJo SQ-wise. While Chord may come from a different market perspective and design philosophy than FiiO, the simple truth is that Chord is still...

Its not a dac/amp "module", rather those components are built into an SoC that powers the unit. In other words, it's all integrated. Thats why it wont largely affect size or cost, yet also why it will merely sound decent and not amazing. But again, the whole point is to hook it up to an external...

Thats rather tongue in cheek. Its still going to be an excellent transport. You will be able to carry up to 512gb in each slot, which is more than the total max capacity for any other fiio dap. But you get 2 of them. Besides having the highest capacity, it will also easily be the highest value...

Thats cool. But unless FiiO can provide the device with a 512gb-1tb msata then id rather them ship it empty. Even then, I'd only like it to come with storage if it ends up being as cheap as or cheaper than if FiiO were to sell it empty and I had to buy the storage drive myself.

My choice of screen largely depends on the device's ability to be synced with a smart watch. I assume such an interface would require both bluetooth and a touch screen. If you wont be able to control it with a smart watch, or if its possible to do it without a touch screen, id rather just have...

    Ok, thanks for clearing that up. Perhaps someday the technology will proliferate. Seems it's mostly a combination of the right people not being in the right place and/or there's no drive for any capable team to produce it...except at Chord. That was my suspicion, I just wonder how much...

Thanks for the perspective. I still think that the idea that Mr Watts is the sole person capable of producing such a thing is, at least in part, drawn by speculation and presumption. But even if its not quite true, I understand that finding someone else to design it would still be a huge task...

I at least know that fpga chips are versatile - thats why I mentioned their use in video cards. But what i was trying to allude to is that perhaps there are other, non-dac manufacturers that produce advanced fpga chips already. Perhaps coding and specializing for audio would be a relatively...

Just to clarify I was saying that 2 x 1tb msata drives would cost $600. Remember that per gigabyte msata will be cheaper than SD or microSD, so msata would mean higher Max Capacity as well as lower cost per gigabyte, and that the potential costs for storage would not be included in the cost of...

First, they picked a low cost, decent dac/amp chip. It wont need "more work". Second, if this thing even has 1 sd slot, it will already have more storage capacity than the x5, fiio's highest capacity dap. 2 sd will be that much better, 3 better still, and of course im still holding my breath for...