[pholcus1975]

Dx50 new fw is out, next should be our dx80

 

[JaeYoon]

I hope next firmware is good

 

[Bookutus]

If not, i switch to ZX100

 

[audio123]

mine has done that quite a few times, I just say to myself " I guess it did not want me to listen to that". The crappy part is you cant hit the back button to re-listen to it.

my least used dap is dx80 now even though i love the UI and Sound

 

[JaeYoon]

I'm trying to make sense of this review for DX80. Can anyone help
http://inearspace.com/2016/03/01/looking-at-the-state-of-mid-tier-daps-in-2016/
"unless you really want a warm, soft, and generally a little unrefined sounding player I can’t give it a recommendation.
Bass is not very well defined or controlled but it is big and all-encompassing. Sloppy is a word that comes to mind especially when you put it up against the rest of the players here. It isn’t agile or quick, neither is it particularly well extended.
The mid range continues the same way and I just struggle to enjoy what the DX80 offers, it feels so vague in every sense, I just don’t get what they have gone for here.  Vocals aren’t even that smooth, there is a little grain and handful of unnaturalness to boot.
The treble finishes it off; it’s soft with a lack of energy and control and it’s just dull. I had such high hopes for my first proper Ibasso experience, it’s a shame. I cant help feeling that maybe their “fame” in the industry has gone to their heads"
 
What does he mean that it's unrefined sounding?

 

[sludgeogre]

  I'm trying to make sense of this review for DX80. Can anyone help
http://inearspace.com/2016/03/01/looking-at-the-state-of-mid-tier-daps-in-2016/
"unless you really want a warm, soft, and generally a little unrefined sounding player I can’t give it a recommendation.
Bass is not very well defined or controlled but it is big and all-encompassing. Sloppy is a word that comes to mind especially when you put it up against the rest of the players here. It isn’t agile or quick, neither is it particularly well extended.
The mid range continues the same way and I just struggle to enjoy what the DX80 offers, it feels so vague in every sense, I just don’t get what they have gone for here.  Vocals aren’t even that smooth, there is a little grain and handful of unnaturalness to boot.
The treble finishes it off; it’s soft with a lack of energy and control and it’s just dull. I had such high hopes for my first proper Ibasso experience, it’s a shame. I cant help feeling that maybe their “fame” in the industry has gone to their heads"
 
What does he mean that it's unrefined sounding?

That review makes zero sense. The DX80 is very powerful and I feel like that power and headroom makes it incredibly refined. Sloppy is the last word that comes to mind for me with the DX80. Reading it, I can't help but think he's attributing things to the DAPs that they just aren't doing, like saying one has more low end extension than another one, that is just BS, it's a function of the headphone pairing more than likely. He seems to think he has golden ears and I can't help but think that he's fooling himself.

 

[JaeYoon]

That review makes zero sense. The DX80 is very powerful and I feel like that power and headroom makes it incredibly refined. Sloppy is the last word that comes to mind for me with the DX80. Reading it, I can't help but think he's attributing things to the DAPs that they just aren't doing, like saying one has more low end extension than another one, that is just BS, it's a function of the headphone pairing more than likely. He seems to think he has golden ears and I can't help but think that he's fooling himself.

I agree with you there. Im listening to DX80 on latest firmware. It sounds neutral even with Sines and sounds very detailed, great mids, treble and the bass is detailed. Even with trinity budget iems I can't seem to find how it sounds the way the author describes. I just checked out DX80 reviews here and I hear multiple similarities when I'm listening to dx80.

It could possibly be the headphone pairing that author has that changes sound.

 

[jamato8]

  That review makes zero sense. The DX80 is very powerful and I feel like that power and headroom makes it incredibly refined. Sloppy is the last word that comes to mind for me with the DX80. Reading it, I can't help but think he's attributing things to the DAPs that they just aren't doing, like saying one has more low end extension than another one, that is just BS, it's a function of the headphone pairing more than likely. He seems to think he has golden ears and I can't help but think that he's fooling himself.

I have read a few things inearspace has written and they make no sense. I don't see any value in what is on the site as it doesn't seem thought out or with merit. 

 

[JaeYoon]

I have read a few things inearspace has written and they make no sense. I don't see any value in what is on the site as it doesn't seem thought out or with merit. 

Well at least now I know if I read anything on there just to take it grain of salt.

 

[sludgeogre]

I have read a few things inearspace has written and they make no sense. I don't see any value in what is on the site as it doesn't seem thought out or with merit. 

Totally agree with you. The guy talks about bass, mids and treble presentation on all of these daps, but when you look at the measurements they're all ruler flat from 5 Hz to 20 kHz. It's just absurd. This is what happens when people think they can hear things that aren't really there. It's just his feelings about what he likes, but he tries to assign technical detail to it when he doesn't have any clue what he's talking about.

 

[thenoisyhwa]

Hello! Afraid I need some help. When I try to export playlists that I've created on the DX80, only Playlist 1 is exported into the m3u folder. I've tried clicking export multiple times on the other playlists, but it doesn't solve the issue.

Any advice?

UPDATE: I found that I had to export the one playlist, delete the m3u folder then extract the next playlist. Problem solved!

 

[audio123]

the dx80 needs a new fw.
honestly dont understand why a new fw is being churned out for discontinued products as priority.

 

[HiFiChris]

 
honestly dont understand why a new fw is being churned out for discontinued products as priority.

 
IIrc, it was said that some parts of the code base of the DX50/90/80 are identical, so I think by improving the DX90's/50's firmware (which is probably somewhat simpler compared to the DX80's), they also improve the DX80's but need to make further adjustments as it is somewhat different and more complex.

 

[audio123]

   
IIrc, it was said that some parts of the code base of the DX50/90/80 are identical, so I think by improving the DX90's/50's firmware (which is probably somewhat simpler compared to the DX80's), they also improve the DX80's but need to make further adjustments as it is somewhat different and more complex.

ah i see but well no point upgrading on fw of discontinued products.
now my cayin n5 has superseded the dx80 as my main warm and lush vocals dap.
 

 
 
but i still prefer dx80 ui

 

[Lurker0]

honestly dont understand why a new fw is being churned out for discontinued products as priority.

Then why do you expect iBasso to produce a new firmware for DX80, which you already have purchased, instead of working 100% under the new DX200?

 
In fact, iBasso has introduced SACD ISO playback first for DX90, then for DX50, and the version for DX50 is better. So, I expect the version for DX80 at least not worse than for DX50. So think about DX50/90 existing users like beta testers for DX80... or DX200