[matbhuvi]

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You must have A TON of songs on your 601. Any tips on navigating the device. I find the user interface not too user friendly when wanting to find specific songs.

 
As all the albums are lossless, it gets filled up easily. User interface is real pain. I generally listen to one or two albums a max in a listening session. I don't mix the albums. Hence didn't find that as a hindrance.

 

[jono454]

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As all the albums are lossless, it gets filled up easily. User interface is real pain. I generally listen to one or two albums a max in a listening session. I don't mix the albums. Hence didn't find that as a hindrance.

That's not a bad idea..as my songs are all from random places, they're all over the place. I guess i'll start organizing by album or some sort of folder.

 

[Makiah S]

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That's not a bad idea..as my songs are all from random places, they're all over the place. I guess i'll start organizing by album or some sort of folder.

that's what I do, and no 64gb cards hate me...
 
still I use a 32gb a 16gb and a 4gb card I have a case that carries the hm601 and its sd cards [a smallish case] 

 

[matbhuvi]

Had a chance to setup my HM-601 in my car. I have a Alpine CDA-9887 HU, Sinus Live 5 channel amp and HAT Unity speakers. The speakers are running active with the Alpine 988. The sub is also a Sinus Live 10" sealed one. The overall setup is almost neutral. Slightly on the brighter side after i had switched to Active from Passive. I have connected the HM-601 with using a Ai-net aux cable (bit cheapo..need to get a better cable).
 
With the HM-601, i can see a big roll off in highs. A roll off which can't be corrected in EQ. This has a direct impact on the width of the sound stage. But, the quality of mid range and bass is phenomenal. The vocals are sublime. The quantity of bass has increased. The quality is also darn good. It is almost like listening to a setup with tube amp. An unique signature that is beautiful for certain vocal centric genres.
 
I have to admit that i was very disappointed initially with the big roll of in highs. But, over time i recognized that brighter music is like a coffee with extra spoon of sure. It tastes wonderful initially. But, you loose the interest for sugar and slowly you start to enjoy the flavor of coffee without sugar.
 
This is certainly not for all. It has its quirks and apparent weakness. But in the right genre, nothing brings out the emotions out of music like this.

 

[Makiah S]

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Had a chance to setup my HM-601 in my car. I have a Alpine CDA-9887 HU, Sinus Live 5 channel amp and HAT Unity speakers. The speakers are running active with the Alpine 988. The sub is also a Sinus Live 10" sealed one. The overall setup is almost neutral. Slightly on the brighter side after i had switched to Active from Passive. I have connected the HM-601 with using a Ai-net aux cable (bit cheapo..need to get a better cable).
 
With the HM-601, i can see a big roll off in highs. A roll off which can't be corrected in EQ. This has a direct impact on the width of the sound stage. But, the quality of mid range and bass is phenomenal. The vocals are sublime. The quantity of bass has increased. The quality is also darn good. It is almost like listening to a setup with tube amp. An unique signature that is beautiful for certain vocal centric genres.
 
I have to admit that i was very disappointed initially with the big roll of in highs. But, over time i recognized that brighter music is like a coffee with extra spoon of sure. It tastes wonderful initially. But, you loose the interest for sugar and slowly you start to enjoy the flavor of coffee without sugar.
 
This is certainly not for all. It has its quirks and apparent weakness. But in the right genre, nothing brings out the emotions out of music like this.

yuppers, it's a nice compliment to bright cans as it fattens em up without making them obese! So A bright lean set up will benifit from the warmth the hm brings, as your aware of  

 

[dissembled]

The headphone jack on mine is too tight a fit for every headphone I have. I've had it longer than 2 years.  Anybody else having this problem?
 
EDIT: Nevermind. Maybe it miraculously expanded within these couple of weeks. All better now.

 

[148124]

is the newest revision (slim 8GB) improved comapring to the old one ? I heard some of hm-601 were noisy - electronic noise from inside that was hearable in the headphones, software bugs etc
 
can hm-601 use 4 pin balanced TRS plug from my current hifiman headphones (separated GNDs) ? anyway, I am gonna use line out and external amps (Lyr, EF-5) to drive my headphones ...

 

[Makiah S]

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is the newest revision (slim 8GB) improved comapring to the old one ? I heard some of hm-601 were noisy - electronic noise from inside that was hearable in the headphones, software bugs etc
 
can hm-601 use 4 pin balanced TRS plug from my current hifiman headphones (separated GNDs) ? anyway, I am gonna use line out and external amps (Lyr, EF-5) to drive my headphones ...

I miss my hm601... good to see there are a lot of them on the market! 

 

[teddy-no-ear]

My hm601 4GB slim doesn't seem to have any noise issue. With line-out to amp and speakers still sound descent.

 

[pendoric]

Thought I would let you all know that I am having luck using my 601 with a 128GB card. It must be formatted fat32 not xfat which is a little tricky. I have it full of my ripped (flac) cd's the album section does not work but this is probably an issue with my tags rather than the card. I simply browse to the Album via sd card, this however is also a little annoying as they are listed in order the folders are created not alphabetical. There really should be an option to change the sort order for folders! I guess I will look at my tags at some point but re tagging 128gb of music is not an a great thought.

The brand was PNY SDXC 128gb class10 got on special for $79.99 from amazon

 

[Makiah S]

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Thought I would let you all know that I am having luck using my 601 with a 128GB card. It must be formatted fat32 not xfat which is a little tricky. I have it full of my ripped (flac) cd's the album section does not work but this is probably an issue with my tags rather than the card. I simply browse to the Album via sd card, this however is also a little annoying as they are listed in order the folders are created not alphabetical. There really should be an option to change the sort order for folders! I guess I will look at my tags at some point but re tagging 128gb of music is not an a great thought.

The brand was PNY SDXC 128gb class10 got on special for $79.99 from amazon

Oh nice man, that's good to know... and man that's a great deal there on a great DAP with a HUGE Library. Still I used to have a mini case for mine that held a couple of 32gb SD Cards 

 

[cooperpwc]

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Thought I would let you all know that I am having luck using my 601 with a 128GB card. It must be formatted fat32 not xfat which is a little tricky. I have it full of my ripped (flac) cd's the album section does not work but this is probably an issue with my tags rather than the card. I simply browse to the Album via sd card, this however is also a little annoying as they are listed in order the folders are created not alphabetical. There really should be an option to change the sort order for folders! I guess I will look at my tags at some point but re tagging 128gb of music is not an a great thought.

The brand was PNY SDXC 128gb class10 got on special for $79.99 from amazon

 
Great advice. I bought the same PNY SDXC 128gb Class 10 on Amazon (although it was closer to $100). I formatted it to Fat32 with guiformat.exe. It is working perfectly with my Rockboxed 601S. I have 110gb of Lame 320kbps files all being accessed perfectly and about 10gb of free space remaining.
 
Thanks!

 

[CJG888]

Thought I would let you all know that I am having luck using my 601 with a 128GB card. It must be formatted fat32 not xfat which is a little tricky. I have it full of my ripped (flac) cd's the album section does not work but this is probably an issue with my tags rather than the card. I simply browse to the Album via sd card, this however is also a little annoying as they are listed in order the folders are created not alphabetical. There really should be an option to change the sort order for folders! I guess I will look at my tags at some point but re tagging 128gb of music is not an a great thought.


The brand was PNY SDXC 128gb class10 got on special for $79.99 from amazon

Great advice. I bought the same PNY SDXC 128gb Class 10 on Amazon (although it was closer to $100). I formatted it to Fat32 with guiformat.exe. It is working perfectly with my Rockboxed 601S. I have 110gb of Lame 320kbps files all being accessed perfectly and about 10gb of free space remaining.

Thanks!

How easy was it to Rockbox your 601? What advantages does it confer?

 

[cooperpwc]

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How easy was it to Rockbox your 601? What advantages does it confer?

Second question first: The advantages to me are too numerous to mention. Most important is gapless playback. 

 
In more general terms you are going from a B-/C+ interface (Hifiman OF isn't terrible but it isn't great either) to an A+ interface. Rockbox is the best that there is. Years of devotion from an open source community will do that for you.
 
 
As for the first question: It is very easy if you use the...
 

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Windows

1. Extract the rockbox build (rockbox-hifimanhm*.zip) on sd card of your device.
2. Download and install PowerISO. Free unregistered version would be enough. Or you can use any analagous program, which could edit image files with FAT filesystem.
3. Open OF image file (HM-601.IMG, HM-801,... ) in PowerISO? program.
4. Copy BASE.RKW file from SYSTEM folder in image to the .rockbox folder on sd card.
5. Replace BASE.RKW in OF image with bootloader.rkw (Rename booloader.rkw to BASE.RKW and replace original BASE.RKW in SYSTEM and SYSTEM00 folders).
6. Save changes and put derived IMG file into internal storage of your player.
7. Reboot your player

 
Just download the files and follow the instructions step by step. All found here:  http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/HifimanPort

 

[matbhuvi]

I did rockbox my HM-601. But, only the stock firmware is loading after the initial rockbox messages. Am i missing something?