About sound and player app.
The worst thing in X1 – player app. If I would listen it before buying, I skip deal. My ears, spoiled by Foobar sound on PC, and AVG on Sony Xperia Z5, can‘t accept it. After more than week spent on listening FLAC and HR track on native app I made the following conclusions about sound:
1.CD quality files sounding really bad. HR – better, but not so good as they can with such hardware.
2.Problem – sound signature tuning. Instead of linear reference tuning, it looks Onkyo decided to make their frequency curve with significant recession on low and high end, empathizing mids. Result – no fun, character in sound signature, vocal breathing at my nose, lack of depth.
3.Equalizer – parametric - it was one of my dreams and disappointed me totally. 12db – Onkyo can advertise it as one of weakest EQ on the market. And it hardly compensate initial sound tuning. Even more it works really strange – I have feeling that it filters, not increases volume of frequency range.
4.No preamplification control.
5.No balance – not all people have the same or equal ears
Shame on Onkyo – had budget on great hardware, but saved costs on app.
Now working busy on different players uploading and testing.
Pity that Foobar for Android only in very beginning phase.
