This isn't even late yet! People need to calm down. Cyberdrive hasn't taken a wee in your coffee.
I think that this is going to be late, and that is fine. The average crowd-funding is late. I'm not even mad about the communication. They are a small team that has just come into a lot of work.
For the guy putting up his 'redacted' email. That email was just a repeat of rants that people have seen here, and some of it was out of date when the campaign was still on.
There are issues: communication dropped off (the main product ambassador left the company), they haven't confirmed how the 1.8ohm output impedance will or will not be implemented, and they haven't shown a working prototype. They switched DAC chips on the PHA but that was probably the right decision. The 9018k2m is easy to implement and many circuit designs are already out there, they can ape to a win. Go find me all the portable DACs that run a 9018, you won't be looking long. That DAC chip is a desktop DAC chip, and likely much more difficult to implement than the mobile designed 9018k2m. Cyberdrive probably just prevented a year of delays on the PHA, so calm down.
At the price I paid, I still feel like I'm going to get a good product. I went for love-birds on the Pro X with 128GB storage on each. I fully expect to throw a 200GB card in the one that is for me and have access to a big ol' Tidal library. All that together was $260 if I'm remembering right. That is less than one player with no built in storage. For people saying this will be a cell-phone without a radio, has anyone seen the price of cell-phones with 128gb built in? It isn't what I paid.
And for those bringing up the LH Labs Geek WAVE, it looks like backers patience is going to be rewarded. They've added mSATA allowing storage for cheap up to 1TB, it has USB-C and it has two SD slots (might be microSD, but lots of storage either way). I know plenty of people who would walk around with 2TB of hi-res. I'm now wishing a little bit that I'd got in for the $500 dollar balanced base model.
I've got a book project that just hit 3 years since funding, it will likely be another six months minimum. Things can take a while. Patience is the name of the game in crowd-funding. I don't want to hear any more whining on a not late and probably will barely be late project.
