Theta Alpha 1
aka kiteki
aka Alpha Zeta 5
aka Alpha Zeta 6
aka Nanocat Systems
And many other aliases
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lol is that real? Guess this song was made for the C3
One from your personal tape collection, there, Lee?
I emailed them about that.
They said they're working on it.
I said What it says June 2012 and I've been anticipating it?
They apologized.
There's a LOT of new ES9018's now in 2013 so no one cares, for example there's a dual-mono ES9018 on ebay by "LKS Audio" which looks really nice.
Fiio said they'll no longer be using Wolfson WM8740, they're moving on to PCM1794 or CS4398. Every single iBasso product already uses the WM8740 - why the %%%% do we need yet another.
The huge success of the DX100 was due in part to the ESS ES9018, Hifiman got really crazy at them on the Chinese internet and started developing their own ES9018.
Now iBasso is making a thirtieth installment of the WM8740 chip, since if they released a $400 ES9018 DAP in a slimmer package, the DX100 would likely become discontinued. Politics.
Sincerely,
Not Interested
That's why it needs to be cheap. because let's b real - everyone here, deep inside their hearts would rather have the top specs on his/her audio gear, than top sound from a mediocre one...
That's why it needs to be cheap. because let's b real - everyone here, deep inside their hearts would rather have the top specs on his/her audio gear, than top sound from a mediocre one...
You rather have top specs than top sound? Hmm
I could care less what dac they used as long as it sounds great.
The Tera player has a philips dac (I think) and it sounds great
Technically you can argue the philips DAC has better specs than others... in specific areas such as impulse response... same story with the Hifiman HM-801 and Monster Audio MA9, they all adhere to the non-oversampling family of chips, which modern chips like AK4399 attempt to completely supersede, yet can't fully.
Specs usually equal great sound... now if the great sound is being measured - or can be measured - is another story. The specs you get from Rightmark Audio Analyzer are totally useless, but the part numbers, capacitors and resistors inside the DAP count. They also show if the manufacturer is cutting corners with 10 cent pieces or not, why have 10 cent pieces inside a $250 DAP? I think each piece should at least be high quality and cost $5 hehe. =)
You all know what I meant sound is very subjective, whereas the hardware used in the gear is as apparent as it can get. anyways, before someone accuses me of trolling, let's change the subject - the specs on the DX50 pic says it uses 9V volatage swing amp. what is that? and how will it compare to the one that fiio usesin the x3 specs wise?