[Cold Train]

I really, really like the sound of the new FW. To me, this is the best the DX80 has sounded.

Totally agree, this is the best so far !

 

[riodgarp]

After few test with my recabled er4s maybe 1.6.0L0 suit better to my ears

 

[Groen]

I have an issue with multi-value tags. One could consider this a bug, or at least very annoying behaviour.

All my music is in FLAC format tagged with Vorbis comments. I use Foobar2000 for tagging. Particularly for genre, artist and performer I often use multiple values for a tag (using the semi-colon in Foobar2000 to enter multiple values), for example tagging a track with a genre of both "classical" as well as "opera". This works great in Foobar2000 as well as my Squeezeboxes (although to be honest the Squeezebox software does not only support true multi-value tags, but also allows to emulate it by recognising a separator character in essential single-value tags).

My new iBasso DX80 (running fw 1.6.0) appears to concatenate the multiple values for a single tag with a semi-colon as separator.

Problem:

I would expect to find multi-valued tagged tracks under either value. For example, a track tagged with genres "classical" and "opera" should appear in the user interface under the genre "classical" as well as "opera". Not under either "classical; opera", or "opera; classical". Furthermore, the order of the tag values in the concatenation appears random (probably simply determined by the occurrence in the file). So some tracks end up under "classical; opera", others under "opera; classical".

For genres this is problem is still limited somewhat as most of my music has one or two genres and only rarely more. However, for artists and performers this really becomes awful in that for many classical works I simply end up with many permutations of the different sopranas, tenors, basses, choir, orchestra, etc.

I confirmed with Mp3Tag that my tags are actually multi-value tags (showing multiple genre tag "lines") instead of single-value tags using a semi-colon as separator.

Proposed solution (I hope iBasso can pick this up):

The firmware is changed such that a track is listed under each value for a multi-valued tag as described above (track with genre "classical" and "opera" appears under a "classical" entry as well as under an "opera" entry).

Similar issues:

I searched the forums here for similar issues. I only found one for the iBasso DX90 from 2014, see here: https://www.head-fi.org/f/threads/i...bugs-issues-here.715434/page-11#post-10702108 This appears as the same problem. I can imagine the firmware for the DX80 and DX90 share similar code. However, there was no relevant follow-up for this post in the thread and apparently at least the DX80 firmware (1.6.0) still has this issue.

I wonder whether I am the only one experiencing this...

 

[riodgarp]

Hello guys, I think got my dx80 become completely silent, there's no sound from HO or LO and I don't have dac for testing it's spdif out I wonder if it's internal amp or something else got burned after overheated last night I rdecharge it but I can hear static noise when pressing button or turning screen on, can anyone help?

 

[470221]

Folks, I bought Pioneer XDP-100R DAP! I'm free from iBasso at last. No more faulty software, which is updated once a year (if any). No more Paul's broken promises.
What a relief...

 

[Ed Tras]

Hi Paul,
when will there be a new firmware update for DX80 or at least a beta version?
Thanks

 

[etteoh]

Folks, I bought Pioneer XDP-100R DAP! I'm free from iBasso at last. No more faulty software, which is updated once a year (if any). No more Paul's broken promises.
What a relief...

Hmmm, don't mean to bust your bubble but I actually had two Onkyo DP-X1 that had the dreaded broken headphone / output connector issue. It was a design flaw that affected many owners. I do hope you got the latest version as I understand Onkyo / Pioneer fixed the issue by using different connectors in their latest iteration of these DAPs. The latest Onkyo is labeled as DP-X1A. I don't know what Pioneer labeled theirs as. That aside, I have to say I did enjoy using the DP-X1 then.

 

[jamato8]

I am using the latest FW with no issues and the sound is excellent. IMO, the best that the DX80 has ever sounded.

 

[Ed Tras]

I am using the latest FW with no issues and the sound is excellent. IMO, the best that the DX80 has ever sounded.

Do you use playlists? There are many bugs....

 

[jamato8]

Do you use playlists? There are many bugs....

I don't use playlists. I like to listen to an entire album and I tend to pick the music I am in the mood for.

 

[Cold Train]

I don't use playlists. I like to listen to an entire album and I tend to pick the music I am in the mood for.

Playlist is a must when you have over 10,000 tracks within 800+ albums

 

[jamato8]

Playlist is a must when you have over 10,000 tracks within 800+ albums

I have over that and I don't find it a must. Individual needs and preferences are what caps the use for me.

 

[Cold Train]

I have over that and I don't find it a must. Individual needs and preferences are what caps the use for me.

It's a must for most people though, same as Gapless ! Agree that the sound is now far better than what we could dream on the DX80....but it still has stupid flaws in the UI that can easily be corrected via a firmware update

 

[jamato8]

It's a must for most people though, same as Gapless ! Agree that the sound is now far better than what we could dream on the DX80....but it still has stupid flaws in the UI that can easily be corrected via a firmware update

You don't have gapless? It is working on mine. Or do you mean you want gapless just as much as playlists?

 

[Cold Train]

You don't have gapless? It is working on mine. Or do you mean you want gapless just as much as playlists?

I meant that playlist and gapless are must have functions for most dap users.

By the way, regarding the DX80, Gapless doesn't seems to work on all formats