[mochill]

The msrp for the alien is $200 so its not really going up much

 

[Tympan]

  3600 EURO you mean…..

lol! Payable in gold only

 

[Tympan]

The msrp for the alien is $200 so its not really going up much

I didn't know that. Well, still within the reach of most of us. I'm not complaining : )

 

[Telecaster69]

I was under the impression that the Alien could only handle 44.1k/24b files, yet I am seeing them advertised as being able to handle 96k/24b. Can someone confirm as mine won't show up till next week.

 

[meraias]

if this thing could stretch a bit more to include 192/24 + MP3 capable, I would gave bought this a along time ago. For me, not having MP3 play back is truly a miss.

 

[waynes world]

Why you hating on yanni

 
Not hating on Yanni! Just that Yanni tunes are a wee bit mellower and easier on the 'ol Alien than Led Zeppelin 

 
Seriously though, I recently got sucked into spotify premium, and thought "I know diddly squat about Yanni, let's do a search". Ended up listening to a day's worth of Yanni and quite a bit of it was excellent!

 

[kingdixon]

Since i got the alien, i only listened through my jh16 which sounded amazing,

Today i tried testing with other equipment,

I tried the mad dogs, at start volume it sounded good, i personally find the instrument seperation on the mad dogs amazing + the shozy its even more awesome but needed more volume, so i raised the volume and on the current song wow, started moving to other songs with more bass, then there was a strange distortion and the volume was not high enough to distort, i dont know if that is normal or may be the cans collected some dust and need to be cleaned, i will update if i find out whats wrong ..

also tried it with the m-100 and its amazing, very musical and the bass is just hitting hard, the best i have heard out of the m100 yet, there seem to be a good synergy to that combination.

 

[Tympan]

  I was under the impression that the Alien could only handle 44.1k/24b files, yet I am seeing them advertised as being able to handle 96k/24b. Can someone confirm as mine won't show up till next week.

96/24 works great but that is as high as it goes

 

[Telecaster69]

Thanks Tympan. This actually makes a huge difference in the number of hi quality files available for download.

 

[NLNH]

  96/24 works great but that is as high as it goes

 
Really?

 
It actually depends but most 24/96 should be not ok....

 

[mochill]

Where's the alien 2.0

 

[NLNH]

Where's the alien 2.0

 
stuck in space no gold to pay for fuels...

 

[Tympan]

   
Really?

 
It actually depends but most 24/96 should be not ok....

Everything I've tried plays great, granted I only tried 4 albums in 24/96. Maybe I just got lucky... Why? You're having problems with 24/96?
(I only use 16 and 32GB Sandisk SDHC)

 

[NLNH]

  Everything I've tried plays great, granted I only tried 4 albums in 24/96. Maybe I just got lucky... Why? You're having problems with 24/96?
(I only use 16 and 32GB Sandisk SDHC)

 

[Tympan]

I just spend 20 minutes converting 2 albums from 24/192 down to 24/96. I also imported an album in 24/88 and one regular 16/44, all four in Flac on a blank new card.
16/44 works great
24/88 does not work at all
The two 24/98 take longer to load (about 10 seconds). First album skips to the following album when I just try skipping song (!)
Second album seems to work fine although, skipping songs sometimes takes 2 seconds and sometimes 10... and only play 4 out of 28 songs (Jazz at the Pawnshop)... 
 
I see what you  mean now. Darn! Oh well, I'm not so attached to "High res", lossless is fine enough for me as most of my music library is 16/44 Flac or Wave.
 
Well recorded lossless album sound pretty darn good already but yeap! there seems to be some issues of inconsistencies and bug of some sort in 24/96. Not quite there yet. Shozy should take the 24/96 claim off their product description if everyone is experiencing the same bugs