I am no jazz connoisseur at all and, much like the OP, am trying to develop a taste for it with easy to listen to yet proper jazz records. I have come across a few albums recently that I really enjoy listening as such. This one particularly hasn’t been mentioned in the thread : Allen Toussaint...

I'd like to chime in and add, too, that microcuts are now a thing of the past since I formated my sd card using FAT32 instead of exFAT.   Those microcuts had become a real PITA since I'd gotten a new 128 GB sd card (good quality genuine Samsung).   Since Windows 7 didn't allow me to format...

  Yes, it does. All Rockbox DSP processing goes through the digital out.

Merci for the suggestion to try out themes. Yes actually I do like to fiddle around with my devices. First thing I did with my DX50 the day I received it was test all third party firmwares. Anyway following your suggestion I started browsing around the various themes, and I see lots of...

Thanks for the good information. I understand a bit more how it all comes together now.   This RockBox thing is a killer... man, ReplayGain, proper playlist management, parametric equalizer, heck even a good sounding compressor for late night listening on the stereo or for using in the car  ...

Hi there,   I'm testing Rockbox on my DX50 for the first time tonight. I'm very impressed so far with all the available settings but find it hard to navigate through the menus because the overly sensitive touchscreen acts almost neurotic with my big paws.   I would like to know what's the...

Hey guys,   Just a quick follow up to my previous messages from weeks ago regarding firmwares. A day after my last message (then becoming doubtful of my own hearing), I was listening to an album on NDFFF and after a couple of songs I came to feel "man, those treble are indeed kinda...

  The Meenova seems like a neat little device. However, for the record, there is at least one user reporting huge battery drain using it on his DX90 (see here ...

  Okay I will. I want to try out SU 1.3.3 once more anyway for sure, I feel like I must have missed something.

Yes that's what I meant and that's why I mentioned my upper hearing threshold. I'm guessing there's something either with my hearing or my headphones that makes me hear such differences from you guys. I absolutely didn't want to bash against firmwares or whatever, but I thought it might be...

  Not when testing the various firmwares, as the whole point to me was to test the headphones out alone.

Well I said I was gonna test various firmwares and I did. What's surprising is that I don't really come to the same conclusions as most of you guys.   So I tried Doc2008's New Favorite Firmware Final, New Favorite Firmware Megabass Edition and New Favorite Firmware Surround Edition Final. I...

I didn't try it long enough to notice...

  Yes I was replying to the second part of Dragonsan16's question : "i wonder does DX50 work with this dual usb drive?" which as I understood was to connect directly to the DX50.

  Why don't you use maximum compression while encoding to FLAC ? It is a lossless format, you won't lose anything in terms of sound quality. Flac compression 0 or compression 8 both produce the exact same result once decoded and only differ in encoding time, cpu usage and of course resulting...

  I actually do own that exact Sandisk USB drive, 32 GB version, works like a charm without reformating or even removing all my other documents that are on it. Just put a couple music files on it for trial and the DX50 read them without problem.   EDIT : after double checking, mine is...

Ok I will. Thanks for the suggestion ! Is there a reason why it is SU 1.3.3 that is always recommended  throughout the forums and not the latest which is 1.4  ?   Yes I get that you can't understand it. Had I been the one reading such a user experience a few days back and I would have...

Lol yeah I know what it seems like... Really I am very skeptical about lots of audio myths, but it's the truth. I wanted to return the thing without looking back and try a Fiio X3ii instead, and now I don't anymore. It's too bad I don't have two DX50 to switch between firmwares.   I know it...

Hi and thanks for the good thread idea.   In all honesty before getting my Asgard 2 I was using the A-S500 HP out with my DT770 Pro 80 ohms (mainly, but other HP too) and it sounded fine. Warm, perhaps a bit soft, but really not bad at all, not unpleasant for sure IMHO. And not as bad as...

Hi fellas,   Just wanted to chime in and rant some about my latest purchase...   So I received the DX50 a couple of days ago, with stock firmware 1.6   Contrary to what I was expecting after having read the forums extensively, I found the UI smooth as silk, bug-free and had no trouble at...

  Yep, but even with this app, there are still some Android phones that can not output audio through USB so do make sure to use the trial version of the app first or check the list of known working phones.

  Right. I now remember I got mine from here : http://dr.loudness-war.info/downloads/foo_dynamic_range_1.1.1.zip

  I agree, that's why I said that I found it good especially for that music genre I also happen to listen once in a while to stuff that has a rating of 3, like popular electro bass pumping clubbing stuff... but I accept it, it goes with the genre. Wouldn't it sound better with a better...

  True that. Just checked it out on Qobuz, I recommend it. On top of the *excellent* recording, it's also very accessible yet not leaning toward the pop side of things at all. I'm more of a rock, blues, folk, country, metal and pop guy myself but this is for once what I call connoisseur jazz...

I measure them myself using this Foobar plugin : http://www.pleasurizemusic.com/fr/free-downloads Otherwise there is an online database here : http://dr.loudness-war.info/   EDIT : the Foobar plugin is downloadable here : http://dr.loudness-war.info/downloads/foo_dynamic_range_1.1.1.zip