HM-801 Balanced Amplifier Module

[cooperpwc]

Thanks. I thought that the Lyr was a bit out there as a comparison.  (6 watts, ECC88s...)

 

[moss23]

Yes the lyr was a bit out there, but I thought the sr71b would be too honestly...and to re-clarify, we are discussing in terms of an lcd-2r2 pairing with the all amps discussed right?  If so, Ill be ordering the balanced card very soon, thank you.

 

[irvin59]

I was referring to the LCD R2 with SR 71B

 

[moss23]

Good to hear then, have heard the sr71b with the lcd-2s and its fantastic, if its close to that in that portable of a set up then thats awesome

 

[nc8000]

The HM-801 with balanced module is a great one box solution. I would have liked longer battery life though (get at most about 5 hours). My biggest gripe is with the unstable support for hires flac formats and the lack of gapless meaning that I have to spend a fair bit of time processing files before loading the unit

 

[moss23]

wonder if they could upgrade firmware to incorporate gapless one day?, that is a big one for me as most all of my music is live shows...

 

[moss23]

just read about rockbox working pretty well with the 801 now, it has gapless....

 

[LarsHP]

just read about rockbox working pretty well with the 801 now, it has gapless....

Interesting. Where did you see it?

 

[moss23]

theres a thread here on it

 

[LarsHP]

Quote:

theres a thread here on it

http://www.head-fi.org/t/579759/how-to-installing-and-uninstalling-rockbox-to-the-hifiman-hm-801-603-602-and-601
http://www.head-fi.org/t/576970/rockbox-for-hifiman-hm601-and-for-hm801
One of these? In that case "working pretty well" is not my impression from reading those threads. My impression is that people have - with some stress - gone back to the HiFiMan firmware because it's better than with the bugs still present in RockBox.
 
As I understand it, RockBox eats more power than the stock firmware and it won't play 24-bit files.
 
 

 

[Lapohvatov]

Quote:

Quote:

http://www.head-fi.org/t/579759/how-to-installing-and-uninstalling-rockbox-to-the-hifiman-hm-801-603-602-and-601
http://www.head-fi.org/t/576970/rockbox-for-hifiman-hm601-and-for-hm801
One of these? In that case "working pretty well" is not my impression from reading those threads. My impression is that people have - with some stress - gone back to the HiFiMan firmware because it's better than with the bugs still present in RockBox.
 
As I understand it, RockBox eats more power than the stock firmware and it won't play 24-bit files.
 
 

 
Firmware Rockbox always supported 24 bit files. The latest version of the CPU load slightly greater than in the original firmware.
 

 

[Lapohvatov]

Why do you need 24-bit? I do not think that you have such golden ears that differ from their 16-bit.

 

[nc8000]

You don't need golden ears to hear the benefit of good hires files. Previously RockBox has always played hires files but downsampled them to 16/44, I don't know what the HM-801 version does