TL;DR: Recommend me custom IEMs in range of 1200$/€/£ :) Long-form post: Hey all, returning to Head-Fi after a long break blowing all my student loan on Magic cards :p I had some Earsonics SM64s a couple of years ago, but sadly after ~4 years of love and daily use, the shells crumbled beyond...

Looks like it's a "Smart D-100" according to the pictures. Might be a name to watch out for soon :)

I had seen the Microshar G3 already as well and it looked quite appealing. However, if it suffers from EMI I think I'd have a lot of trouble using it :/ I may well be streaming over data in the future, so no EMI is another essential that I should have put in the OP.

The Mojo being about £100 over my budget is just way too much, the first two hundred can be justified, three is harder, but four hundred is just too much :/

AP100 is a DAP without android, so it doesn't really fit what I'm looking for. The EQ on the Fiio X5 is basically useless, it really doesn't do what i want it to. I'll be using my X5 to DAC for my PC, I'm looking for an amp with a different sig for my portable rig.

Okay, thanks for the clarification :)   Back to hardware, Is the general consensus around Head-Fi still that the HA-2 is best-in-class? 

Given that I use nothing higher than CDQ FLAC or WAV, will i actually need a hi-res driver? Or is this just the driver for the dac/amp? Sorry if this is a n00b question but I know next to nothing about DACs...

The M4 is just a down-specced Z3, so if it's a software feature, I think it will support it.  The choice isn't only between those two, they were some that I had found and liked the look of :) If there are any other models I should look at instead, I'd appreciate recommendations. The HA-2 is...

Bump? I would really appreciate some input here :)

Hi Head-Fi,   I've been using a DAP + IEMs as my audio setup for as long as I've been interested in good sound, but recently I've hit a bit of an impasse. I love the sound of my Fiio X5, but the UI is starting to get to me, with time-consuming scrolling, no cue feature and the distinct lack of...

Well for the people who wanted a larger Jack it was the only option, I'm only confused because dropping a popular option seems a bit like shooting themselves in the foot... Not enough storage on Colorfly players for my tastes anyway, so I'm ambivalent...

Don't know why they dropped the 1/4" headphone jack, that was the big USP on the C4 :/

Ok, thanks for your help :) I know iFi also produce some but they get very expensive...

Is there a coaxial input on this or is it USB only? I'm still looking for a coax DAC as there seem to be very few on the market :/

The port labeled "Line Out / Audio In" confuses me :| Maybe you should take one for the team and get it and tell us all about it? :)

Ooh, Manuel Le Saux does lovely stuff :) I just got a massive pile of CDs, I can highly recommend Future Sound Of Egypt Volume Three, Bobina - #Uplifting and Michael Badal - Now That We're Human. All great discs :) Also, I have to recommend Para X - Temple Of Light as my new favourite track of...

Oddly enough, with everyone saying they hate the looks of the Monitor 08, as I said earlier I love it, and a few of my non-audiophile friends agree with me(!) And we're all trendy teens :P

From the amount of satisfied customers and how long they've been available, I'm guessing they weren't very 'limited' :3

W Weirdly enough, for me in the UK, importing anything from Germany is ridiculously expensive - it seems to start at €16 for any kind of parcel, which is sometimes more than the item I was going to order. :/

If someone scratched the return address off, that's definitely dodgy, and I reckon the credit claim is probably the best way to go for now.

Does the X5 need PC drivers? I wouldn't know because I only use mine as a portable - if it does, have you tried updating them?

I have no idea why there aren't two card slots as well, and would be interested to know - my FiiO X5 managed two SD slots and that cost me less than a seventh of an AK240. Admittedly, it doesn't have internal storage, but micro SD cards/readers really don't take up a lot of space...

I just looked at the new Musiland, and dang is that thing awesome! Call me weird but that looks really good to me, sadly I can't read the info 'cause I'm not Chinese so I can't tell the specs :/ More info would be greatly appreciated though :)

Yeah, now the new tips are fitted, they're back to that great SM64 sound :)

No one beats Justine Suissa. NO ONE! ;) I'd vote for Susana as a runner up tho :)