zachchen1996
Headphoneus Supremus
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Agreed.
I hope it was obvious that I was being a bit mischievous with my question
You're always mischievous
Quote:
Agreed.
I hope it was obvious that I was being a bit mischievous with my question
I'm coming from the original Zune, now AK100. All I care about is sound quality, functional usb dac, shuffle and folder browsing. Anything else is gravy.
In my opinion dual 2M for a single ended product is a waste of battery and board space. It's also more likely to be Sabre like, read bad, compared to a two channel setup. More power is also a battery killer and just begging for noise when most people using a DAP will have iems that will blow out your ears at 1mW. 110dB at 1mW in the case of my 846. And at my peak listening level the 846 uses a whopping 10mV out of the 1250mV on tap. I'll be fine
Should really be the DX90 and X5 since despite different dac chips they share the same i/v, filter, amp only difference being buffers and single v dual of the same opamp.
That said once people started saying the DX90 needed hundreds of hours of burn in... I was out. If electronics sound bad out of the box or at most after they warm up in the case of class A gear... all that is burning in is your brain getting used to crap being your new norm. No different than using bass heavy cans until burn in magically flattens and tightens the bass out /facepalm
Still no preview or listening impressions from INDEPENDANT reviewersDon't they have any pre-production working units to show to the press or during roadshow ??
In my opinion dual 2M for a single ended product is a waste of battery and board space. It's also more likely to be Sabre like, read bad, compared to a two channel setup. More power is also a battery killer and just begging for noise when most people using a DAP will have iems that will blow out your ears at 1mW. 110dB at 1mW in the case of my 846. And at my peak listening level the 846 uses a whopping 10mV out of the 1250mV on tap. I'll be fine