fish1050
Headphoneus Supremus
I also have the M5s. Has a very nice AKM DAC. Love it.
Yeah the M5S is a really nice unit but it costs almost 4x more than the Q1 and more than the M3X. Reviews I have read indicate the M3X sounds better than the M5S and I do prefer ESS SABRE DAC's to AKM DAC's. Both are really not in my price range at their current prices and don't offer enough over the Q1 for my needs. Shanling's android DAP lineup is pretty full now so my hope is they will swing back to their MTouch DAP units. I wouldn't likely be in the market money wise until Black Friday so I will wait until then and see if there is anymore DAP news from Shanling between now and then. My eyes are bigger than my wallet right now and the wife would kick my butt if I spent that kind of money right now.
Given the very large hole in Fiio's lineup with the discontinuation of the M6, M7 and M9 a new M2X update could do very well even though it is not android. Not to mention that we don't know if Sony will be releasing an update to the A55 leaving the MTouch DAP's as the best options in the non-android market with the A55 being over 3 years old.