[aaf evo]

We have preorders live at Bloom. I'll be hanging out in this thread as we get more info to provide info and answer questions as well.
On a personal level, I'm a huge DX160 fan, so I'm really hyped for the DX170. Probably grabbing mine in blue.
https://bloomaudio.com/products/ibasso-dx170

Do you guys have any sort of ETA for shipping yet?

 

[stephenkostas]

Do you guys have any sort of ETA for shipping yet?

We're expecting these to be coming out pretty quick – we should have them in late July and customers will start getting them around the end of the month or early August.

 

[alwass89]

@Audio46 also has the DX170 up for pre-sale. I spoke to them and they expect it in stock by early-mid August. I pre-ordered from them as I work near the store so I can pick it up the day they get them in stock and I also had some rewards money I was able to use towards the purchase.

 

[Uebelkraehe]

This time with working wi-fi in the first iteration? Never got fixed on my DX160...

 

[Pretardo]

My only gripe is the battery capacity. Sigh why did we still have to stick with 3200 mah.
I don't know how efficient will a 22 nm node SoC be?

The DX160 had a snapdragon 425 which was at 28nm so a slight improvement there. But Rockwell vs Qualcomm chips, I don’t have a solid comparison there.

 

[superuser1]

The DX160 had a snapdragon 425

"iBasso 艾巴索 DX160 HIFI 发烧 级 安卓 蓝牙 播放 器 解码 DSD 固 解 无损 音乐 便 载 式 式 色 【图片 价格 品牌 報价】 -Kyoto
iBasso has no international version on the farm, I think that there is no problem buying a Chinese version・
Let's wait (laughs)
SoC was not announced, but I saw a reply saying that it was RK3368 if I confirmed with the dealer"

 

[Vamp898]

No mW number?

What do you want to drive with it?

 

[Tomm11]

The CS43131 is a combination DAC / headphone amplifier chip. Same chip as used in the Cowon Plenue R2, D2 and D3. Those chips aren't capable of anywhere near the power some folks are speculating about in this thread so they must be bypassing the amp. So why would iBasso choose to use a chip with built in amplifier if they aren't going to use the amplifier?

Hiby used a combo chip in the R5 Gen2 but it runs in 2 modes. The power saving mode uses the built in amp but it's bypassed in class A mode. iBasso isn't doing a power saving mode from what it looks like. I wonder if they are either trying to stay with the DX160 tuning and since they could no longer source the CS43198 they went with the CS43131 and just bypassed the built in amplifier. Or, due to familiarity with the CS chips, it was less costly to work with the CS43131 than to go with a totally different chip. But if that's the case, I'm kind of surprised they didn't take advantage and do a power saving mode like Hiby did. Hiby pulled it off at the same price point with the R5 Gen2 ($449). iBasso probably could have gone that route as well.

 

[JoshG1217]

Ah...I miss the certainty of youth.

I'm 41, though quite youthful in my middle age.

 

[ozziegurkan]

Will it drive a ZMF Verite?

 

[Edyeded86]

Are there dimensions of the DX170 released?

 

[yannis]

 

[Lu88]

Are there dimensions of the DX170 released?

124.5 x 70 x 15mm/165g

 

[stephenkostas]

No mW number?

You can get the estimated mW from Vrms and Ohms.
I think I did the math here right:
at 16 ohms, 6.4Vrmw = 2.5W
at 32 ohms, 6.4Vrms = 1.28 W/1280mW
at 64 ohms, 6.4Vrms ohm = 640mW

 

[rlw6534]

You can get the estimated mW from Vrms and Ohms.
I think I did the math here right:
at 16 ohms, 6.4Vrmw = 2.5W
at 32 ohms, 6.4Vrms = 1.28 W/1280mW
at 64 ohms, 6.4Vrms ohm = 640mW

Your math is correct, but that doesn't mean the amp can supply the current for lower resistance loads. It's very likely current limited. I doubt it can supply much more than 500 mW at 32 ohms. Maybe iBasso can chime in with actual specifications.