Quote: Originally Posted by Snicewicz Honestly, where do you live? Don't the Boas ship out of China? i ordered mine on a saturday, received it monday. china to NJ, US of A baby, believe it!

oicdn, i believe that the factory in taiwan you are talking about is owned by giant? i used to ride quite a bit when i was in thailand. there used to be a lot of cool twisty singletrack near around where we lived, but now ever since moving to the united states-- a year ago-- i have not biked...

nice review, man. the boa is a great buy, i am glad i bought it!

Quote: Originally Posted by Mazz Not on mine you can't. To use the AC plug you plug a standard USB cable into the plug and the other end of the cable into the USB port on the Boa. That's the same port the DAC receives the audio stream on. But as someone else said, you can charge via the...

Quote: Originally Posted by hockeyb213 what is the battery life of the boa? The site quotes about 30 odd hours. I have found that to be quite true. I can go up to about 4-5 days of regular use (probably about 25-30 hours) and the low batt light still does not turn on (but I...

Quote: Originally Posted by battosai Hello everyone, I was reading the all thread today (54 pages, wow!) and I ended up buying the D2 Boa! I hope it will do good with my fresh HD600, but since it is my fist amp, I'm sure I won't be disapointed. I planned to use the amp with my desktop...

Quote: Originally Posted by musica08 After listening exclusively to my laptop using BOA DAC (flacs and hbr MP3s) ever since I received it I went back to my trusty Cowon D2 today and in an instance realised that life is never going to be same again ! Same flacs were sounding as if life...

my LOD just arrived! have been listening to the boa with it for a couple of hours. sound is noticeably better than with the headphone out. cool beans!

Quote: Originally Posted by jamato8 When you use the headphone out on the ipod you are using the dac in the ipod and frankly it isn't all that good. Again it would be your source and not the amp section of the Boa. that is good to know, thank you!

Quote: Originally Posted by jamato8 Well the sound would be good or bad depending upon the source. Now if the Boa sounds good or better when using the USB dac and not quite as good when using just the amp section then I would suspect your source when using just the amp as the amp would...

Quote: Originally Posted by jamato8 There isn't a huge difference in gain but as noted above, the sound quality, to my ear, takes a bit of a jump when set to the high gain position. hi jamato, are most of your impressions on the boa based on the dac or also on the amp too? just...

Quote: Originally Posted by TSi Are u trying to drive low sensitivity, high impedance phones? I am trying to drive the AKG K271s phones. impedance 55 ohms, sensitivity 91db SPL/mW. i'm not sure if that qualifies as low sensitivity but i don't think that is high impedance? (i'm...

Quote: Originally Posted by falang Edit: One thing I have noticed is that there doesn't seem to be a big difference between the two gain settings. When I flick the switch there is just a slight perceptible change in volume. Perhaps this normal to portable amps, or the maker's intention...

Quote: Originally Posted by dealcatcher That doesn't seem to do anything. I know when I received the boa it was charged and the blue led was off. turn the volume knob all the way to the left, towards the jacks. you will feel a pretty tangible click.

Quote: Originally Posted by yale.reinstein It is not only a system setting, it's a program one too. You have to select the proper output. I've used XMMS and audacious, both worked. well, VLC seems to work. i cannot stream audio through firefox thru the dac, neither can i find a...

Quote: Originally Posted by yale.reinstein Dunno how much this dac varies from the one in the Viper, or how pulse deals with usb audio, but my Viper worked with ALSA seamlessly on my Debian box. Selecting the output within linux distros is a bit more complicated and hit-or-miss compared...

well, first of all i cannot believe how quick their shipping is. they shipped on monday morning (china time) and it got here this morning (tuesday!). that's a 1 1/2 day shipping time from china to NJ! ok now comes the hard bit: i do not have my LOD as of yet (it is in the mail), but...

Quote: Originally Posted by jpstereo Very interested in picking one of these up. I can order through the website and PayPal will convert Euros to Dollars -correct? Or - should I just PayPal them the money in US Dollars and let them know what I want? What did you folks from the US...

Quote: Originally Posted by daco63 Hi copse. FYI, it is pretty common that the 'back' button will give you an error message after you complete a transaction. This is somewhat on purpose to make sure that your browser doesn't re-do the final sales transaction and order you another...

just want to update that i have received a response from ibasso letting me know my package will ship monday. woot! though, i will say these small issues can unnerve the new buyer. i hope they fix stuff like that.

Hi guys, I just completed a purchase of a green ibasso boa from the ibasso website. after completion of the paypal transaction, the return button to the ibasso website got me a 404 error message- page not found. also an email to service@ibasso.com got me an instant message permanently failed...