[H20Fidelity]

I'm enjoying the Pervasion, but the Alien is still the most engaging portable I've ever heard.

 
I find it depends on the pairing.
 
For me, Hum Pervasion brings better synergy with ASG-2. Being a little on the warm / thick side I don't feel Alien brings enough aggression or detail with the Aurisonics, like the sound is labouring to some extent (possibly slight lack of driving power). Hum on the other hand, basically reveals more detail with ASG-2 and provides more omph to the earpieces. Neither sound bad though Hum is a better match for that earphone.
 
On the other hand, when you place Fidue A83 with Hum Pervasion that aggression or edginess is almost too much, that's where Alien is near perfect for the Fidue.
 
Really a case of synergy and tonality / driving power matching.

 

[emusic13]

Does anyone have manual for the alien? Or instructions about the different lights? Thanks

 

[kingdixon]

Does anyone have manual for the alien? Or instructions about the different lights? Thanks

http://www.head-fi.org/t/733349/a-little-about-the-shozy-alien/1275#post_11308817

ost 1288

 

[emusic13]

http://www.head-fi.org/t/733349/a-little-about-the-shozy-alien/1275#post_11308817

ost 1288

Thanks! My light is blue and green and the files are all wav but there's no sound. Would it be a card problem?

 

[clarkydaz]

  Thanks! My light is blue and green and the files are all wav but there's no sound. Would it be a card problem?

its a familiar issue. try putting your songs and conversions in foobar, mine worked then. remember it doesn't play 24/96

 

[kingdixon]

Thanks! My light is blue and green and the files are all wav but there's no sound. Would it be a card problem?

well if there is no charge the sound will stutter but anyway trying playing while charging.

Try reconverting one song from wav to flac or to wav, i had same problem with some flacs not working, i reconverted them using dbpoweramp.

And at last may be reformat sd to fat 32 and try again.

but i think reconverting them might work well.

 

[qafro]

Cool, am old school in audio. Home high gear. I thought that the audio source such as cd or dap should have the biggest budget>amp >speakers.
But in head-fi.org for sound quality
Headphone or ciem has the biggest budget then amp and dap last.
I'm confused here...

 

[emusic13]

Coming from the Hippo Biscuit, I don't get why the Alien couldn't have the same button presses which make more sense. The biscuit is one press for the middle button for pause or hold a few seconds to turn the player off. I'm pretty sure one day on the Alien I'll end up blowing my hearing if I accidentally press the off button and press it on again since its one press only.... And its funny how holding the volume up button is pause. Why not pausing using volume down at least? 

 On the bright side, the sound is good 

 

[whoever]

  Coming from the Hippo Biscuit, I don't get why the Alien couldn't have the same button presses which make more sense. The biscuit is one press for the middle button for pause or hold a few seconds to turn the player off. I'm pretty sure one day on the Alien I'll end up blowing my hearing if I accidentally press the off button and press it on again since its one press only.... And its funny how holding the volume up button is pause. Why not pausing using volume down at least? 

 On the bright side, the sound is good 

 
i don't think you could get surprised by on and off with the Alien, the launch time is sufficiently long to be aware that you had the wrong button….But for what it's, i never start the Alien with the phones in my ear but always before putting them in

 

[whoever]

  Thanks! My light is blue and green and the files are all wav but there's no sound. Would it be a card problem?

Most of the time the issue with not playing files is wrong tagging 
 
try to find yourself with clear and simple tags, it makes a huge difference, also on the speed of reading and launching. i've got a almost full 64gb sd inside with only songs, no album files, and starting times is less than 10 seconds 

 

[H20Fidelity]

  Coming from the Hippo Biscuit, I don't get why the Alien couldn't have the same button presses which make more sense. The biscuit is one press for the middle button for pause or hold a few seconds to turn the player off. I'm pretty sure one day on the Alien I'll end up blowing my hearing if I accidentally press the off button and press it on again since its one press only.... And its funny how holding the volume up button is pause. Why not pausing using volume down at least? 

 On the bright side, the sound is good 

 
Just a bit different than the Biscuit you've become accustom to. Give it some time, Alien will win your heart.

 

[Wyd4]

Anyone got any suggestions for a dap that happily takes 128gb cards and sounds as good as the alien?

I am after something and god knows I am the biggest fan of the alien but 128gb of music on it would be my worst nightmare And not why I use the player.

I will stick to 16gb at a time on my alien lol.

Just looking at alternatives for work so I don't have to use my work laptop, which runs queries so from time to time can get a but slow a d well, I like my music in time lol

 

[Stuff Jones]

Anyone got any suggestions for a dap that happily takes 128gb cards and sounds as good as the alien?

I am after something and god knows I am the biggest fan of the alien but 128gb of music on it would be my worst nightmare And not why I use the player.

I will stick to 16gb at a time on my alien lol.

Just looking at alternatives for work so I don't have to use my work laptop, which runs queries so from time to time can get a but slow a d well, I like my music in time lol

 
IB4T AK240 suggestions!

 

[Wyd4]

   
IB4T AK240 suggestions!

 
HAHA
If I were going to spend that much money I would save for the Lotoo Paw Gold.
 
I prefer its sound.

But something perhaps a little closer to normal (but addicted to head-fi) budget haha

 

[Loquah]

Anyone got any suggestions for a dap that happily takes 128gb cards and sounds as good as the alien?

I am after something and god knows I am the biggest fan of the alien but 128gb of music on it would be my worst nightmare And not why I use the player.

I will stick to 16gb at a time on my alien lol.

Just looking at alternatives for work so I don't have to use my work laptop, which runs queries so from time to time can get a but slow a d well, I like my music in time lol

 
Check out the HUM Pervasion. It sounds a bit different to the Alien (a little less organic), but it's very very good and only $300-400 (not sure exact pricing). It has a single slot which would accept 128Gb FAT32 cards and runs Android so very flexible OS / player options and features