nekromantik
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as in proper feature updates been none since January this year.
Astell & Kern SR15: A&norma Impressions & Reviews
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as in proper feature updates been none since January this year.
dawsonsweek
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Yeah, especially as there has been multiple features announced as being in the works (Roon support, Last.fm scrobbling) and then they haven't come to fruition. My player was £500, that is a large amount of money to invest in a piece of technology and I would expect the level of service to match that.
Tidal works ok
I bought my SR15 in January 2018 on the promise of Roon. I needed a portable Roon endpoint to feed my Chord Hugo2 and since Roon on the SR15 was promised as imminent I bought one rather than wait for the Chord 2Go for Hugo2 which seemed to be another piece of over promised vaporware at that point. Almost a year later and still no Roon on the SR15 and endless speculation on the 2Go. As a stop gap I bought a Fiio M6 as it was purported to run Roon which it does but didn’t play well when using the digital output. Fiio eventually fixed it but overall as a DAP and Roon end point, the experience is quite poor.
2019 has been a very frustrating ‘headfi’ year for me. Over promising companies and under delivering beta level products seems to be the state of the market just now
2019 has been a very frustrating ‘headfi’ year for me. Over promising companies and under delivering beta level products seems to be the state of the market just now
I will say though, that as a traditional DAP, the SR15 is superb and on the rare occasions I need tunes on the go and can be bothered to load tunes onto a card I do really enjoy it.
It just seems a bit old skool transferring tracks from a NAS library to an SD card that way having been immersed in streaming services for the last few years. Off line Tidal (something else the little M6 has been able to do for a year) for outdoors and portable Roon endpoint when in the house are the use cases that make most sense to me.
Until then it’s nice piece of outdated technology.
It just seems a bit old skool transferring tracks from a NAS library to an SD card that way having been immersed in streaming services for the last few years. Off line Tidal (something else the little M6 has been able to do for a year) for outdoors and portable Roon endpoint when in the house are the use cases that make most sense to me.
Until then it’s nice piece of outdated technology.
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Do you mean that offline Tidal does not work either? Only Tidal streaming?
ce3eoa
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The SR-15 is nice DAP, and sounds very well, but I bought in September a Hiby R5, and allthough its sound is a little behind the R5, it is much more easer and fun to use, so I am using it, more than the SR15. The implementation of the R5 is very good fo me. Another thing is that I can use the R5 as a USB DAC with Audirvana, but I the SR-15 doesn´t work with Audirvana, I have tried it in 3 different computers.
I also use a lot Tidal, and in the R5 I don´t have to play with apks, just upgrades Tidal using the Play store.
I also use a lot Tidal, and in the R5 I don´t have to play with apks, just upgrades Tidal using the Play store.
pilgrimbilly
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Offline Tidsl works fine, as numerous posts on this thread can confirm. I have 180 Gigs downloaded, never had a problem
I'm still more than happy with my SR15.
I'm still more than happy with my SR15.
What APK version are you on? Upgrading to 2.20.0 broke things completely, I had to delete and install 2.19.0 instead which meant downloading everything again. I bought the SR15 based on their Open App Service for Tidal (offline) which no longer supports the latest builds so I’m stuck at 2.19.0. It’s been almost a year since the last firmware update, I’m not holding out much hope for this being fixed soon.
pilgrimbilly
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2.19. Was aware of the problems with 2.20, hence I didn't update.
Vapour Trail
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Anyone find a reliable apk for spotify?
i have given up on my sr15 and possibly AK as a whole, finding other brands dap options now, cause i highly rely on fast booting dap and tidal offline tracking
if u are a streamer like most of us who are disappointed, return them, BUT if you do sd card tracks it might be good
Hello
The Chord Mojo makes a very good complement to the SR15,
I don't notice the difference in sound of this combination with the Poly-Mojo, and it is more functional and easier to use, the SR15 software is very good
Very curious as to the point of connecting the Mojo DAC(amp) to a DAP especially as the SR15 has two high quality DAC’s built in and a headphone amp. Surely bypassing the internal digital analogue conversion of the SR15 defeats the purpose of owning it? Can someone explain the benefit. I was looking at buying some Grado 325e headphones which are low impedance and don’t require an amp but wanted a DAC to use with my phone, I have an SR15 and don’t see the logic in connecting it to an external DAC??
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marcus2704
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I have been using my SR15 with offline Tidal via APK for months with no issues whatsoever. More recently, I use it at home as a source for my Sennheiser HD800S and HDV820. I do wish the native Tidal had offline mode, but the APK process is so simple its not really a big issue for me.
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