One of the features I’d like to see on the SA700 is ReplayGain compatibility. All my music files have this data from the Audirvana app on my Mac, and it would be nice to have all my files play at the same volume … not so much a problem with album listening, but when listening to a selection of songs from different albums, a needed upgrade.
There are daps under $400 that have this feature.
The new SP2000T has ReplayGain, so I hope the SA700 gets a firmware upgrade for this as well. I also read that the 2000T will analyze one’s library and create the ReplayGain data.