[nmatheis]

I'll also echo the questions bout blind navigation.

Say you're blindfolded, shackled to the bed. God-awful pop music torturing your soul. How easy is it to make it go away?

Very easy. Press the power button for a few seconds. The song will be gone easy-peasy :rofl:

But seriously, stuff like skipping songs, play/pause, volume, power are all easy due to the physical buttons on either side of the N3 which are easy to reach. I haven't really tried blindly navigating my music collection, though. That's not something I do. If I want to change albums, I want to see the screen so I choose the right album. Does that answer your question?

The DAP seems very interesting indeed! Packed with functionality, a fantastic DAC chip, compact, good battery life, plus a reasonably low price tag.
So hopefully also a good amp stage and well implemented... Looking forward to read the impression of @nmatheis

Nik,

Inquiring minds want initial impressions!

Soon, bros...

 

[Mr Trev]

Very easy. Press the power button for a few seconds. The song will be gone easy-peasy :rofl:

But seriously, stuff like skipping songs, play/pause, volume, power are all easy due to the physical buttons on either side of the N3 which are easy to reach. I haven't really tried blindly navigating my music collection, though. That's not something I do. If I want to change albums, I want to see the screen so I choose the right album. Does that answer your question?



Soon, bros...

Pretty much answers that for me. The touch buttons had me cringing, but if everything (the important stuff, anyways) can be dealt with using real buttons…
Cheers
 
Now hurry with the impressions

 

 

[Thomas Cayin]

Thank you for giving Cayin love,
 
This is one of the motivations that we keep listening to and advancing.

 

[nmatheis]

Pretty much answers that for me. The touch buttons had me cringing, but if everything (the important stuff, anyways) can be dealt with using real buttons…
Cheers

Now hurry with the impressions  

Yes, all transport controls have physical buttons for blind operation. If it only had the capacitive controls, blind operation would be quite difficult.

 

[hqssui]

Yes, all transport controls have physical buttons for blind operation. If it only had the capacitive controls, blind operation would be quite difficult.

I feel it is a great idea to have capacitive buttons for navigation and physical buttons for volume control and track skipping. I have a Xuelin iHifi770C which is impossible to operate blindly. But the folder/setting navigation is very easy because of the capacitive buttons and I prefer them to physical wheels in the Fiio X1 1st gen.
 
Well done Cayin.

 

[originalsnuffy]

  Thank you for giving Cayin love,
 
This is one of the motivations that we keep listening to and advancing.

 
The presence of Cayin on these boards is much appreciated.   

 

[MPNow]

One of the other features of this device I'm interested in learning about is how the syncing process works after copying music from your PC to the device. Does it work like Fiio's X1  where the device will have to scan and update it's library before you see all the music in its appropriate locations on the device or do all of the tracks appear in the proper location as your syncing them from your computer (like Apple's Ipod)?

 

[nmatheis]

MPNow: N3 needs to build a database like the FiiO DAPs.

 

[MPNow]

@MPNow: N3 needs to build a database like the FiiO DAPs.

 
 
Thanks. So its probably as slow as the X when it comes to updating thousands of songs in the database.

 

[nmatheis]

Thanks. So its probably as slow as the X when it comes to updating thousands of songs in the database.

I'm going to try to get an intro video up this weekend to show off basic functionality...

 

[1TrickPony]

Would like to know more about the sound sig Nik, how'd you compare this to say a Shanling M2 or the Aune M1s?

 

[crabdog]

Would like to know more about the sound sig Nik, how'd you compare this to say a Shanling M2 or the Aune M1s?

He said he should have a video up this weekend so fingers crossed that will cover sound a little bit too.

 

[bruce1967]

I'm pretty interested in this DAP. I like the simplicity of it and if it's not extremely buggy I'll get one. Looking forward to nmatheis's impressions too.

 

[hpnut]

Same here..trying to convince myself I don't really need the new and much more expensive Fiio X5iii

 

[bruce1967]

Same here..trying to convince myself I don't really need the new and much more expensive Fiio X5iii

I'd want the X5iii too but it's a bit more that I can afford so I'll keep my eye on the N3 not that I need it either but the heart wants what it wants.