[Mython]

 

Spoiler: Warning: Spoiler!

5 years after the release of Mini Audio DX100 / Hibino HDP-R10 (World first DAP using ESS9018 DAC), Mini Audio finally releases the successor of DX100/ HDP-R10, named MA01.
 
My friend in China have tried the pre-production model and said the player will be released within these few months. (Probably in July16)
 
 
And here are some spec of Mini Audio - MA01 (90% Sure)
 
#Processor: JZ4760B
#DAC Chip: Single ES9018S
#Audio File Format: Up to DSD128 Native，PCM 24bit 192KHz .
#Volume Control Unit: ALPS  Four-unit  Rotary Potentiometer
#Dual Micro SD Cards support
#Coaxial Digital out
#Optical digital out
#Line out
#2.5mm Balance Headphone Out
#3.5mm UNbalance.
#Headphone Amplifier: Using Mini Audio D14 as reference
 
Size: 106 x 63 x 20 mm
Weight: TBC
 
 

 

 
 

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Something doesn't add-up about this. iBasso told us, weeks ago, that the MA01 was nothing to do with them.
 
 
Now we see the MiniAudio MA01 looking extremely like this Oriolus DAP:
 

 
image credit: http://www.erji.net/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=1936444&extra=page%3D1
 
 
 
It really makes me wonder who is actually making this DAP.

 

[HiFiChris]

Noticed this too.
 
But reading Paul's post again, he actually didn't refer to the MA01 at all but to the Mini Audio trademark.

 

[Mython]

  Noticed this too.
 
But reading Paul's post again, he actually didn't refer to the MA01 at all but to the Mini Audio trademark.

 
 
Mmmm.. good catch...
 
 
...but still...   the whole situation does seem rather obtuse and ambiguous

 

[Paul - iBasso]

The DX100 was produced by iBasso Audio. The DX100 was also produced under the name Mini Audio for the Chinese market and the R10 (with a few changes) for the Japanese market. We no longer use or own the Mini Audio name and have no connection to anything currently produced by any company using the name Mini Audio.

 

[Mython]

  The DX100 was produced by iBasso Audio. The DX100 was also produced under the name Mini Audio for the Chinese market and the R10 (with a few changes) for the Japanese market. We no longer use or own the Mini Audio name and have no connection to anything currently produced by any company using the name Mini Audio.

 
 
Thankyou for the clarification, Paul - it is much-appreciated.
 
 
Would you please clarify if the same is true, or not, in relation to the Oriolus-branded DAP, in the above Erji.net picture?
 
Cheers.

 

[Paul - iBasso]

   
 
Thankyou for the clarification, Paul - it is much-appreciated.
 
 
Would you please clarify if the same is true, or not, in relation to the Oriolus-branded DAP, in the above Erji.net picture?
 
Cheers.

What we make will have our name on it and not the name of another company. I don't know anything about their dap but it is not ours.

 

[Mython]

Regardless of disagreement about which company manufactured it, and purely out of curiosity, did any English-speaking head-fiers try this DAP?