[Drahtaar]

What about non working EQ?

Hello,
What do you mean about the non working EQ ??

 

[Drahtaar]

Hello,
I am interested about this SE200.
Well in fact, i hesitate between the SA700 and the SE200. In cons, the size of the SE200 (very large...). The SA700 is more portable. But I love thinking that the SE200 must be better in SQ...

 

[dhc0329]

Hello,
What do you mean about the non working EQ ??

Have you had any of latest AK devices yet? It's well known that the built-in EQ has almost no effect.
It's more of an eye-candy EQ which looks good but doesn't deliver anything.

 

[starouterspace]

Have you had any of latest AK devices yet? It's well known that the built-in EQ has almost no effect.
It's more of an eye-candy EQ which looks good but doesn't deliver anything.

The EQ does have a use case for me - to further cut down volume on top of volume 1. I turn it on for my sp1000m with Solaris before sleep. I'd say AK's EQ does deliver something to me.

 

[dhc0329]

The EQ does have a use case for me - to further cut down volume on top of volume 1. I turn it on for my sp1000m with Solaris before sleep. I'd say AK's EQ does deliver something to me.

Understood but not in what I would conceive as normal EQ. While I had the SP1000 struggling with the issue the forum recommended that I should
EQ my files instead. Come on, run 8000K files under software to normalize the sound!? That was my last encounter with AK.

 

[DAPpower]

I guess AK doesn't want you to fiddle around with the tuning that they did a lot of research and concept for.

 

[dhc0329]

I guess AK doesn't want you to fiddle around with the tuning that they did a lot of research and concept for.

No problem with that as it's their prerogative but I want more control to my liking. After all it's my music as I want to enjoy.
If they have a problem with that..fine. I will move on.

 

[claud W]

It sounds damn good without any EQ adjustments.

 

[Drahtaar]

Have you had any of latest AK devices yet? It's well known that the built-in EQ has almost no effect.
It's more of an eye-candy EQ which looks good but doesn't deliver anything.

Ok i know what you mean... Well, i agree with you in the fact that their EQ is very shy , yes...
I had AK120II, AK240, SR15. And it is true that you must need very little effect to be happy with their EQ, and no to mention the simple fact to activate it, make lower the volume. So when it is enabled, you lost the benefit of the power of the dap...
So, with some iem who needs a lot of correction , their EQ is very insufficient.
But their EQ has the great advantage to have a great precision (20 bands with Q etc..). And there are few daps with so many bands to make the correction very precise.

 

[AngloApulian]

Hi everyone,

I’m new here, been lurking for a little while.

I finally got the SE200 today, I updated to the latest firmware 1.10 and I installed the Tidal app through Open APP services, however I noticed that when playing 24-bit MQA tracks through the Tidal app I just installed, the light on the volume wheel remained red (meaning the device thinks it’s playing a 16-bit track). When I played the same MQA track using the built-in Tidal app that comes with the device, the light on the volume wheel would display the correct colour to show it was playing a 24-bit track. This happens regardless of whether I’m using the AKM DAC or the ESS DAC.

Has anyone else experienced this issue? Is it just a software bug?

 

[JasonNYC]

Hi everyone,

I’m new here, been lurking for a little while.

I finally got the SE200 today, I updated to the latest firmware 1.10 and I installed the Tidal app through Open APP services, however I noticed that when playing 24-bit MQA tracks through the Tidal app I just installed, the light on the volume wheel remained red (meaning the device thinks it’s playing a 16-bit track). When I played the same MQA track using the built-in Tidal app that comes with the device, the light on the volume wheel would display the correct colour to show it was playing a 24-bit track. This happens regardless of whether I’m using the AKM DAC or the ESS DAC.

Has anyone else experienced this issue? Is it just a software bug?

The LED light will glow red for playback of any track, regardless of bit-rate for all apps installed via OpenApp. The LED will only display bit-rate color for tracks played back through the main player app (tracks stored in internal memory or microSD card) and the embedded Tidal app since the embedded Tidal app it is hard-coded in the firmware.

 

[AngloApulian]

The LED light will glow red for playback of any track, regardless of bit-rate for all apps installed via OpenApp. The LED will only display bit-rate color for tracks played back through the main player app (tracks stored in internal memory or microSD card) and the embedded Tidal app since the embedded Tidal app it is hard-coded in the firmware.

Hi Jason,

Thanks for the quick response. I take it the bit-rate of the track being played via an app installed via OpenApp is not affected in this case?

So for example if I’m playing a 24-bit MQA track via the Tidal app I installed, and the volume LED is glowing red, the track will still be playing in it’s original 24-bit as far as playback is concerned?

 

[JasonNYC]

Hi Jason,

Thanks for the quick response. I take it the bit-rate of the track being played via an app installed via OpenApp is not affected in this case?

So for example if I’m playing a 24-bit MQA track via the Tidal app I installed, and the volume LED is glowing red, the track will still be playing in it’s original 24-bit as far as playback is concerned?

Correct. If you select a 24-bit track, it is playing back in 24-bit.

 

[AngloApulian]

Correct. If you select a 24-bit track, it is playing back in 24-bit.

That’s good to know. Thanks for your help.

 

[Mans]

SE200 - When I use Tidal inbuilt application to play MQA files, LED colour changes to green but when I play the same songs in Tidal via open source services app it's show red color.. do I need to change settings? I reached to Tidal help desk they have asked me to connect with Astell Kern team.