Thanks for those, it does seem as though 11 hrs might be pushing the limits. It is less than I would like, but everything else with this player looks so good.

R3 looks like it will be a great DAP, but I'm still on the fence because of the battery/playback time. Is the quoted spec likely to be a true to 'real world' or more a best case scenario with sensitive IEMs/earbuds? Did the R6 live up to its' spec re playback time?

Useful first feedback, thanks :) It sounds like it might tick a lot of boxes for me, if the playback time was longer it could be near perfect, but ~20 hrs is more useful than the 8-12 hrs that so many other players are limited to.

does anybody know anything about the AGPtek H3? just noticed it on Amazon and something about it looks familiar, but I can't find any mentions of it on Head-Fi DAP discussion. AGPtek H3 $130 / £99 / €115 specs claim: 94 × 56 ×15 mm 256GB microSD support, up to 14999 songs 22-24 hrs playback...

It sucks, but anything that escapes fees is lucky, not standard. I don't know if DAPs and earphones are subject to duty, but you should pay item value + duty + VAT, shipping + VAT. DHL add handling fees of something like €15 + 2% of the value, and they're often sly ****s because they add the 2%...

Cowon is the brand I mainly associate with very long battery life, there are several discontinued models with 60-100 hrs and more. Before they were discontinued those occupied the niche I'm talking about. Right now Plenue D is a current product with 100+ hrs claimed for mp3 and 50 hrs for flac...

For me, 8 hrs is pathetic and I wouldn't even consider it no matter the other attributes. I considered the Cayin N3 as most people are happy with it, but the claimed 12 hr life was the deal breaker. 25+ hrs is very desirable, but I'd really prefer a lot more and I'm only really impressed by...

Given the feedback in the other thread, the D3 is very disappointing. I suspect that X3+ will not interest me either if the battery/playback time is limited, but I may as well ask: is anything else known about the features or when this might be available?

Thanks for the feedback, you saved me from wasting $80 and I can strike this from my list. Somewhat depressing that so many of these contemporary DAPs are disappointing in so many ways, but there it is.

or you could consider this is as a blessing, if you're as a busy as you said you won't have the distraction until you've got time again, and the new toy will be something to look forward to having after your deadline.

Honestly if you go through my posts you will likely find dozens of dyslexic typos, repeated words, missing words, incorrectly substituted words etc. I have a really bad habit of using cut & paste excessively to rearrange paragraphs and sentences, then failing to notice errors until later -...

Well said! Is the status of gapless as a feature of D3 confirmed one way or another?

Not a problem: English: offence US English: offense https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/offence

Thanks again, now I'm armed with enough information to (hopefully) find a good solution. No worries on gom vs gum, I had the faintest inkling I'd seen it that way before :)

I hadn't noticed until it was pointed out here, but that's great. For the sub-forum search, could this have a check box to search thread titles only? or do so by default? Maybe I'm in a minority, but I have an idea I search way more by thread title than all posts.

Could I trouble you to point me at some examples? I'm just quick look on eBay and Aliexpress, but so far not turning up any results. And just to be certain, should I be searching for "gom" or is this an alternate spelling for "gum?" Thanks!

Apologies if I cause offence here, but having recently seen forum users ask for correction to improve their English I will play the spelling Nazi today. In this context you mean piqued rather than peaked, and definitely not peeked.

That's what I suspected would be the only viable course of action. It's not a major problem, but I see I'm not the only one finding it a little bothersome that certain threads are occasionally overloaded with videos.

I'm looking at more photos of my own ears, interestingly I don't really have a pronounced bump at the antitragus, and the space between antitragus and the ridge at 3 is relatively tall, so it seems the preferred fit area on my ear isn't at all close to ideal. I guess I need to get surgery so I...

Thank you so much, that's an excellent reply :)

I found some junk earbuds that I think came with a cheap (dumb) mobile phone. No good for listening to music, but I thought it might be an indicator of what to look for in terms of fit. Somewhat predictably for me, the fit is hopeless because my ears stick out a bit. These things just slide...

Not sure where the best place on the forum is to ask: but is there an option somewhere to always collapse or view Youtube videos as links rather than embedded?

Will be keeping one eye on the feedback for these, hopefully the dealers will be able to improve availability without the shipping cost. The price of secure, tracked shipping just seems to be on a never ending upward spiral and thanks to the massive amount of fraud nobody can ever risk tracked...

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I think so too, if you have the address to hand then feel free to PM me. Although it's probably just as easy if I message Cypherus on here anyway, so I will do just that later.