Parts have been sent to a good home.

Shipping only to US or Canada (too complicated otherwise)

Free APPJ modding stuff Did some modding a few years ago but my soldering skills were pretty raw, and ended up ruining the PA1502A. Now moved on to solid state only and no more modding. If anyone here would like the APPJ for parts, plus some tubes and misc components, just PM me, and I'll send...

Another (not quite as good but free) method is to use Equalizer APO and the Peace GUI.

Nice! What are those connectors? 2.5 mm? 3.5 mm? Also, I'll be interested to see how the straight connectors into the cups work. Right angles might put less stress. Planning on building a balanced cable once mine have shipped.

When I was testing the two side by side, I ran a rapid switch test -- One desktop streaming player outputting to USB and the other to SPDIF, level matched. Did this for a variety of FLAC (Qobuz) and MQA (Tidal) tracks equated for sample rate up to 192/24. I couldn't hear any difference (which...

Agree. They clearly haven't released the entire library in the US, which I assume they will do before going live. Otherwise Qobuz would not be particularly competitive.

Nice. Unfortunately, I'm number 396, so I haven't even got a tracking number yet... No complaints though. For Kickstarter, this has been extremely well run. Just need to be patient... BTW, mine will come in carbon and silver. Looking forward to seeing the difference.

Yes, indeed. I had to explain to them the difference between gapless playback and crossfade. They definitely eliminated the crossfade feature. My guess is that they are still confused and sending out incorrect info about gapless. It seems that a lot of this has to do with subtle hardware and...

Late last year, there was a link to sign up to test. Then they sent out "private invite" emails in middle of Jan. So I'm not sure it is possible to join Beta testing now. They said the Beta period would be about a month, so they might be ready to go live at the end of this month (although they...

Just cancelled Tidal. Like I said before, my gapless playback problems on the desktop app were fixed (mobile was never an issue). But Qobuz is better on so many dimensions (particularly interface) that it was no contest.

So I can stream Qobuz flac (for, say, a 192/24 track) through UAPP and it will bypass the limitations of the Android OS, utilizing the Hi-Res capabilities of the internal quad DAC. Excellent, thanks.

Interesting... But will UAPP bypass the Android OS if there is no external DAC (i.e., using the internal quad DAC and headphone out)?

Just to note if anyone else was having the same issue... Was having some problems with gapless playback streaming both Tidal and Qobuz via UAPP (wifi, LG G7 ThinQ, no external DAC). There were often slight clicks and timing offsets during track transitions. Switching the HTTP client to OkHTTP...

Just to clarify, this issue is specific to the G7 One... The G7 thinQ should has full MQA support, right?

That's one of the reasons I chose the LG G7, since it can do the entire unfolding process and has a superb DAC / headphone amp, making the my Dragonlfy Red obsolete (https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/review-and-audio-measurement-of-lg-g7-thinq-smartphone.4468/)

On a different topic... We're in Beta testing of Qobuz here in the US. So far, extremely impressed relative to Tidal. -- Better search functionality than Tidal, especially for classical -- Hi res streaming in Flac rather than MQA -- Library size seems similar to Tidal, but a greater proportion...

UAPP does not implement gapless playback perfectly when streaming Tidal (again, at least for me on my setup: United States, LG G7, no external DAC). There is no gap (absence of sound), but often there is a click or a slight timing offset between tracks. The Tidal mobile app actually implements...

I got this same message from support: "The crossfade and the gapless feature have been disabled. We decided to do this because our data showed that it did not add to our overall customer experience." But, now the problem seems to be solved (at least for me). I never had any issue with the...

Anyone have a source for a 2.5 mm right angle mono (TS) plug? Al I can find are TRRS. I guess TRS would be ok, using just tip and sleeve.

Gapless playback problem appears to be fixed

I bet they just updated the Desktop app in the EU... When I emailed support about lack of gapless playback, they said that they had removed the "crossfade" option because it wasn't an option that was "highly valued by their customers". I emailed them back to tell them that crossfade and gapless...

Weird. Thanks.

Unfortunately, this is not the case. Tidal support confirmed that the most recent update of the Desktop app no longer supports gapless playback. I just checked again, and the Desktop app still introduces gaps between tracks where none should be (try listening to the transition between tracks...

The problem I'm having is only with the Desktop app. My phone app works fine. Did you try the Desktop app?