[Drazalas]

Holy crap, this retails at 850 on amazon.ca, I'm definitely buying in.

 

[sepinho]

Can I control the PAW 5000 via a headphone's cable remote? That would be mighty convenient for sports.

 

[creavasst]

Hi everyone,
I've been using my lotto paw 5K since June/July 2015.
So far I've never had any issue with the firmware bug.
However, today, suddenly my lotto decided to crash / freeze during playing song.
I can't shut it off. The screen keep turned on.
 
Anyone knows how to hard reset / remove paw 5k battery?
 
EDIT:
solved. I just read that lotoo has a hard reset button on the bottom.
Cheers.

 

[Ritvik]

  Hi everyone,
I've been using my lotto paw 5K since June/July 2015.
So far I've never had any issue with the firmware bug.
However, today, suddenly my lotto decided to crash / freeze during playing song.
I can't shut it off. The screen keep turned on.
 
Anyone knows how to hard reset / remove paw 5k battery?

 
There's a tiny hole at the bottom that houses the reset button. 

 

[BruceBanner]

Would the Paw 5000 be the cheapest DAP with balanced out at the moment? Just wondering.

 
 

Yeah. As far as I know.

 
 

 
Yes to me as well.......

 
I was under the impression this was the cheapest balanced out DAP;
 
http://penonaudio.com/music-mp3-players/Portable/HiFiMAN-HM-700-16G

 

[Ritvik]

There's the luxury and precision L3 on indiegogo right now at 300 as well

 

[twister6]

 
I was under the impression this was the cheapest balanced out DAP;
 
http://penonaudio.com/music-mp3-players/Portable/HiFiMAN-HM-700-16G

 
HM700 (and also GeekOut V2 usb dacs) uses HiFiMan own 3.5mm balanced wired TRRS connection, while the rest adapted 2.5mm TRRS A&K wiring (AK120/240/380, PAW500, N5, L3, X7 balanced amp module, and probably DX200).

 

[BruceBanner]

   
HM700 (and also GeekOut V2 usb dacs) uses HiFiMan own 3.5mm balanced wired TRRS connection, while the rest adapted 2.5mm TRRS A&K wiring (AK120/240/380, PAW500, N5, L3, X7 balanced amp module, and probably DX200).

 
I am completely ignorant to balanced outputs. I own a AP100, i'm very satisfied on the most part, but curiosity wants me to try a balanced connection. I own the PFE 232's, I don't think these can be balanced...

What is a good recommendation of pairing both DAP and IEM to experience balanced output?

 

[twister6]

 

   
HM700 (and also GeekOut V2 usb dacs) uses HiFiMan own 3.5mm balanced wired TRRS connection, while the rest adapted 2.5mm TRRS A&K wiring (AK120/240/380, PAW500, N5, L3, X7 balanced amp module, and probably DX200).

 
I am completely ignorant to balanced outputs. I own a AP100, i'm very satisfied on the most part, but curiosity wants me to try a balanced connection. I own the PFE 232's, I don't think these can be balanced...

What is a good recommendation of pairing both DAP and IEM to experience balanced output?

 
Not sure if you really need it

  I mean, for a full size demanding cans driving them balanced from a powerful amp gives more power, that's understandable.  Even for little DAPs, for example AK120i, you get more power from balanced output.  But so many DAPs already powerful enough, thus it will hiss more with sensitive IEMs/CIEMs.  Another argument is cleaner sound since you are not referencing signal to the ground but rather "hot" signal to complimentary "cold" signal.  The effect could be really subtle, and it goes back to the fact that so many high end multi-driver IEMs/CIEMs are very sensitive and pickup hissing and some sources don't have a perfect black background, and so on.  AK120ii has a perfect black background but honestly it's hard to tell if it has cleaner sound in balanced.  PAW5000 is not a high res DAP, so don't expect reference quality sound.  N5 balanced output is not hiss free either.  All eyes are on L&P L3 upcoming release.  Will see, hopefully will get my hands on a review sample in a month.  Oh, and the last but not least is soundstage expansion (width) which sometime is limited by a bottleneck of your headphones staging performance.  I personally do hear wider sound with balanced output, but it could be subjective.

 

[hqssui]

  Can I control the PAW 5000 via a headphone's cable remote? That would be mighty convenient for sports.

 
I have tried this with 3 button earphone, but no luck. Pressing the buttons have no effect. I cannot see any settings for this.

 

[sepinho]

Thanks for trying!

 

[kaiss3r]

Does it have an artist/ album / browse sd folder option?

 

[SteveHiFi]

Does it have an artist/ album / browse sd folder option?

 
Just now you're limited to browsing by folder, but it is possible to create playlists of your favourite tracks and play those tracks sequentially or at random.

 

[kaiss3r]

Just now you're limited to browsing by folder, but it is possible to create playlists of your favourite tracks and play those tracks sequentially or at random.

Thanks for the info. Now I'm really tempted to buy. I organized my files by folder so that's a big plus..
How about its firmware? Does it have any bugs or any issues?

 

[puworld]

Thanks for the info. Now I'm really tempted to buy. I organized my files by folder so that's a big plus..
How about its firmware? Does it have any bugs or any issues?

 
I'd start at the beginning of this thread and see what's what TBH There's just too much good info on this for someone else to try and repeat it all.