Well, with 40 years' experience listening to systems of various degrees of quality, I believe I have more than a clue. Other people's ears are not my ears. I related my personal listening experience with the DAC (... with 3 sets of headphones: LCD-2, Sennheiser HD 25-1 II, and Shure E4c). That...

Maybe one of his other components introduced the noise he claims to hear on the QXD1. I'm listening on a JDS Labs Atom Amp with the QXD1 and I can crank the volume up to levels beyond what my ears can bear and hear no noise - nada (...naturally not while playing music). My listening experience...

Has anyone else had their Hifi Status app stop working on their V30 with Oreo 8.0? I've cleared the cache, deleted the app's data, and uninstalled it. Now when I go to the Play Store I'm told my device is not compatible! I see one of the commenters there appears to have had a similar experience...

Media Monkey works okay on Windows RT - plays a wide range of formats incl. FLAC. Don't know about gapless. See http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-us/app/mediamonkey/e8fd6da5-dc9d-4daa-9daa-a10d046b53ea

I'm in Australia and can confirm that the HDP works fine as supplied.