[blankdisc]

This seems to be the next Flagship Hifi Portable player from Hifiman - HM-901. They showed a prototype at the spring NY meet, and it sounded very good.
 
Finally a picture with the dock has been released, although no spec info has been released officially. The word is that it's coming out on 10/1.
 
Imagine a system that can be used both on the road and at home. pretty neat idea I would say.
 
 

 

[Amfibius]

Sounds great. Any idea how much storage this bad boy packs? 

 

[blankdisc]

no idea. I guess probably 8 GB. it supports both SDHC and SDXC cards, so you can easily drop in a large card. Personally i don't care about the onboard memory. Most of computers now come with SD card reader, so much easier to deal with the memory card.
 
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Sounds great. Any idea how much storage this bad boy packs? 

 

[Szadzik]

Does it not have a screen???

 

[ClieOS]

Of course it has a screen, just not that obvious on the rendering. The R&D is almost done too, the first batch will be out in next few months.

 

[blankdisc]

think RMAF....

 

[sphinxvc]

Looks very Batman.  Will it support OSX?

 

[devgru]

Scroll wheel for volume? Would be nice if it had a flip-cover like it appears in the render. Looks great.

 

[tzjin]

Oh the dock actually looks nice! Any word on cost?
 

 

[sluker]

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Oh the dock actually looks nice! Any word on cost?
 

What does the dock actually do? Does it have RCA out, amp,what are the specs? 

 

[devgru]

 
Must have RCA as well.

 

[tzjin]

So this player can fit anywhere in the chain. Looks fantastic.

 

[blankdisc]

yes. the current HM-801 supports OSX. Since now the USB module is built in the dock, i can imagine that they can do much more than what they did with HM-801. It means a much better USB implementation.
 
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Looks very Batman.  Will it support OSX?

 

[blankdisc]

Yup. that's what i was told. it will basically function like a full-size desktop DAC with the dock. All the input/output you normally get from a desktop DAC will be implemented on the dock.
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Must have RCA as well.

 

[Mython]

There's a longstanding thread on the 901 here:
 
http://www.head-fi.org/t/597981/renewed-at-2012-03-12-the-new-hifiman-802-new-ui-named-tai-chi