Ahh, here we go again.
I understand where the hatred towards iBasso enthusiasts comes from, as most of the time, they are disapproving of other devices. They are strongly and harshly in favor of iBasso deviced compared to the "competition". However, if someone who is experienced and owns/owned other devices which he could directly compare their iBasso devices to, I don't see how anyone can label them as a "fanboy".
After all, iBasso is praised for all the right reasons, it baffles me that people are trying to take this away from it. It brings so much innovation to the industry, it introduces so many technically advanced and pure designs and features—quite literally things that provide advantages and performance based on their analog design—without focusing on marketing bs. iBasso has arguably the best customer support in the DAP space, yet here are people who are trying to dismiss all of these things it gets complimented for. The list goes on and on.
Don't get me wrong, I get the psychological aspect of it, some people purchase other DAPs and in order to justify the money they spent on their device, they claim it as the better one.
For those who this is not the case for, you HAVE the right to like something because of personal preference. Taste is subjective, and more importantly, hearing is subjective. I have repeated this so many times when arguments like this break out in iBasso threads:
You ARE allowed to speak against iBasso's favor in these threads. This isn't a sponsored thread, the manufacturer doesn't own it (regardless of whether they created it or not) or have any rights to moderate it and censor anyone. The problem people have is when they share this, and an experienced member shares their opinion why iBasso is better than that device, they pull the "oh, iBasso fan" card. I'm getting tired of it. There are people in this thread who have spent tens of thousands of dollars seeking the best out there, they have no reason to be biased spending that sort of money. They tried everything there is to try, the most highly-acclaimed device ever created in the DAP space, and they still put DX320MAX Ti above them. There are levels to this, there are people with money, and there are true enthusiast who have genuine knowledge to assess how good something is. Behind the musical performance [subjective], there is hardware design [objective]. The behavior is explained and backed up by hardware design. Things don't happen for magical reasons as some claim.
Feel free to enjoy what you have, but please stop trying to sabotage people who recognize iBasso's qualities. That's what's unfair and messed up.
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voja
P.S. LOL