By the way, I have been told by Ibasso when I will receive my DX100. I have been told to send the remaining payment in also.
Right now I am busy in designing my experiment which I think will be fun for everyone. I have downloaded 8 to 10 192/24 albums and some of which I have the exact CD in in 16/44 format. I have copied all my ALAC in my Itune Music to my portable drive and ready to transfer to DX100. I have several CDs Creedence Clearwater Revival, Beethovan 9, The best of Righteous Brother, Diana Krall etc in both 16/44/ and 192/24 format.
So this is what I am going to do. I have enlisted couple of crazy unwilling heafiers as guinea piggies (and you know who you are) which I will blindfold and randomly play a track from one of five different platform.
1. DX100 in regular 16/44 ALAC format
2. DX100 in Hires 192/24 format
3. The same track in ALAC on my portable rig (Ipod/CLAS/DB1/SR71b)
4 The Same Track in ALAC on a different portable combo with Pico Slim, O2 and PB2
5 The same track in ALAC (16/44) but using the DX100 line out O2/SR71b/PB2/Pico Slim.
6 The same track in ALAC (192/24) but using the DX100 line out to O2/Sr71n/PB2/Pico Slim
7 I will compare the difference between the Sabre 32 Dac to the Wolfson Dac via the DB1.
All of the above will be using the following headphones: LCD2, HD800, ED8, JH13. All cables and IC will be Crystal.
I will do this blindfolded. So the guinea piggies (including myself) will be blindfolded and the above condition will be run in a random fashion and we will rate each condition according to sound quality. I will use some classical and vocal materials. I hope this will be fun.