[DAPpower]

I am wondering how it sounds compared to the daps. If same sound signature, it is an inexpensive way to hear for myself. It would also give me streaming from my phone, which my current daps can not accomplish.

Yeah curious to see if it sounds similar, I wouldn't think it would but it seems like it would be a good option if you want to use one device only, phone ect.

 

[bmoregnr]

I use a Dragonfly Red when I only want to deal with the phone. It’s nice but it isn’t thrilling so I’d give this a try for sure. I’m iPhone so I assume there are short lightning to usb c cables?

I looks like it has volume control by the +\- buttons and vol 40 on the screen? That would be nice as iPhone volume is rough and Dragonfly relies on player volume control; no gain adjustment either.

 

[thesheik137]

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Thanks for the heads up, already pre-ordered. I miss my LP6K sound, but found myself streaming too often to keep it. Hopefully this will fill the Lotoo void in my life.

 

[Wyville]

I use a Dragonfly Red when I only want to deal with the phone. It’s nice but it isn’t thrilling so I’d give this a try for sure. I’m iPhone so I assume there are short lightning to usb c cables?

Came across this. Perhaps interesting.

 

[IAMTHEEGGMAN]

Hi all. I found some contradictory information about this dap. Hopefully you can help me:

Can it run Tidal?
Can it play mqa?
Can it do both things through usb to a external DAC properly?

Thank you very much.

 

[DAPpower]

Hi all. I found some contradictory information about this dap. Hopefully you can help me:

Can it run Tidal?
Can it play mqa?
Can it do both things through usb to a DAC properly?

Thank you very much.

It cannot sideload any streaming apps as the OS is a custom one made by Lotoo, no Android! It is basically a pure music player.

 

[IAMTHEEGGMAN]

Ok... Thank you so much for your quick and straight answer.

 

[twister6]

Ok... Thank you so much for your quick and straight answer.

Well, that was the answer to your first 2 questions PAW6k, just like LPGT, can be used as USB DAC or as a wireless Bluetooth DAC paired up with your phone. Thus you can stream, but not directly from these Lotoo DAPs. So, you can run Tidal or any other streaming app remotely, except no full MQA unfolding.

 

[IAMTHEEGGMAN]

Thanks for the info... Pretty inconvenient to be honest. Not many advantages over my actual setup (tablet-uapp-hugo2).

 

[ngd3]

Looks legit

 

[musicday]

Looks legit

I bet it will sound great with movies and music..

 

[MarkSB]

I actually believe the latest update patch for the Lotoo fixed the pixelated look for image resolutions higher than 480x480, I haven't tested anything bigger than 480 recently but I will take a look now.

Does anyone have any tips on how to re-size album art to 480 x 480? Im on an Apple computer and I have ~ 500 albums that need to be updated.

 

[DAPpower]

Does anyone have any tips on how to re-size album art to 480 x 480? Im on an Apple computer and I have ~ 500 albums that need to be updated.

If you use the popular MP3tag program to tag audio files, you can do a quick convert when tagging your files by right clicking the album art section and pressing convert and you can choose the size you want in pixels, don't forget to save that into the file(s) afterwards.

That only converts it in low res quality though, with Windows 10 default photo editor program you can resize images in higher quality.

 

[pretzel06]

if dBpoweramp work on macOS, you can try that maybe.

 

[mwhals]

if dBpoweramp work on macOS, you can try that maybe.

It does have a Mac version. I have the Windows version and highly recommend it.