[matbhuvi]

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Dang finally got my hands on some 24/96 album. Wow it sounds impossibly good. Not sure if I'll be able to go back to 16 bit lol.

I don't have that luck with my only 24/96 album..the player crashes when i play that...may be because it is 5.1 channel
 
Edit: I converted the 5.1 to stereo using foobar. All is fine now

 

[stanalexis]

Hello,
 
Has any of you guys ever tried to play an .ape file in the HM-601 ? Did it play it ? Wais it 16 or 24 bit ?
 
Thanks.

 

[Jupiterknight]

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Hello,
 
Has any of you guys ever tried to play an .ape file in the HM-601 ? Did it play it ? Wais it 16 or 24 bit ?
 
Thanks.

I have been able to play ape files on my HM-601. I have only tried 16bit, so no experience with 24bit.

 

[mark2410]

am i being stupid but is there a specific list of the supported formats.  mine seems to be a little hit and miss in picking up files

 

[Lubanja]

where do you guys find all of these different formats? .ape where the heck does that even come from (god forbid you payed money for mediamonkey to make a .ape file). Just be normal and use flacs. foobar2k can rip your CDs to flac or mp3s or whatever, completely free.

 

[Achmedisdead]

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where do you guys find all of these different formats? .ape where the heck does that even come from (god forbid you payed money for mediamonkey to make a .ape file). Just be normal and use flacs. foobar2k can rip your CDs to flac or mp3s or whatever, completely free.

 
It has nothing to do with Mediamonkey, although I can see why you would think that. http://www.monkeysaudio.com/
I agree with you Lubanja, why not just use FLAC instead......convert your existing APEs to FLACs if you have them.

 

[Jupiterknight]

I believe that this has been posted somewhere in this thread before.
HM-601 is supposed to support the following formats (mine does most of the times):
 
FLAC: VBR 16bit
APE: High Mode, Normal, Fast.
AAC: 16 to 320 kbps.
WMA: 8 to 356 kbps.
OGG: Quality 0 to Quality 10.
WAV: PCM, MSW-ADPCM, IMA-ADPCM
MP3: 8 to 320 kbps. 
 
I use dbpoweramp converter to achieve these formats by ripping or converting,  very easy to use and completely free. I really don't use Mediamonkey Gold to rip or convert anything, but it can relativ easily be used for  "free" as well!!

 

[RAFA]

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where do you guys find all of these different formats? .ape where the heck does that even come from (god forbid you payed money for mediamonkey to make a .ape file). Just be normal and use flacs. foobar2k can rip your CDs to flac or mp3s or whatever, completely free.

 
It has nothing to do with Mediamonkey, although I can see why you would think that. http://www.monkeysaudio.com/
I agree with you Lubanja, why not just use FLAC instead......convert your existing APEs to FLACs if you have them.

Having a lot of different DAPs, this is the best solution. I store my files in two version: 320k Mp3 and FLAC => no problems with file support.

 

[ClieOS]

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am i being stupid but is there a specific list of the supported formats.  mine seems to be a little hit and miss in picking up files

You will be better off just using either mp3 and FLAC, which are the two most stable format supported by HifiMan. If you have problem with either format, it is likely coming from the ID3Tag being too complex (i.e. big album art, etc).
 
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where do you guys find all of these different formats? .ape where the heck does that even come from (god forbid you payed money for mediamonkey to make a .ape file). Just be normal and use flacs. foobar2k can rip your CDs to flac or mp3s or whatever, completely free.

APE is just a big format in China, so it is natively supported by the chipset used in HifiMan (which is RockChip, a Chinese chip maker)
 

 

[Jupiterknight]

Interesting, I didn't know about the popularity of the APE format in China. I agree, that APE in my experience, does not work as well on my HM-601 as some of the other formats it supports like Flac, mp3, wma, ogg vorbis. The APE files seems to sometimes slow down the GUI.

 

[SmallBucket]

 
Rec'd my 601 yesterday. Purchased a 24bit Flac file (McCartney - Band on the run) from HDTracks.com and the 601 showed it to be a 24bit fie on top of the display. It does sound fantastic!
 
 
 

 

[matbhuvi]

I hear the hum with SE530 too. It is random. More noticeable sometimes stepping into the songs for few seconds...even noticeable between the track changes. This changes after like 10-15 mins of usage. It also picks up the interferences easily from speakers, mobile phones etc. One strange thing happened today. My player picked up a local radio channel albeit at a very low volume when i turned on the player. The volume of the radio channel did not increase when i increased the volume of the player. Only the headphone out is having all these noises. Line out is pretty clean.
 
I missed to break my rip from DVD-A to multiple files. Tried to open a large flac of 1GB size. My player hanged and there was no way to reboot. I am waiting for the charge to go out and the player to reset itself. For once i am thankful that the charge for the player is less 

 

[Lubanja]

Anyone know if this thing can drive Beyer DT880's 600ohm? Or would I need an extra amp

 

[gimbertt]

I find even with my RE-0 there seems to be more of everything with an amp.
 
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Anyone know if this thing can drive Beyer DT880's 600ohm? Or would I need an extra amp

 

[immtbiker]

From my personal experience with the DT-880/250 and my Ti1 600 Ohm, I would definitely suggest an amp. 600 ohms is difficult to drive although the T-1's act more like a 300 ohm headphone and they good, but no]y great. In other words, you are not allowing the headphones fullest potential, and that is a waste of valuable resourses!
 
Like having  a Lamborghini Countach  and driving around in bumper to bumper traffic, all day long.  A waste of valuable resources.
 
 

 
 Can it be done? Yes, Should you do it? Heck no.