those no load measurements for DAPs... cowon always gave that on all its models and I've complained for years about how useless it was. I whined recently about stereophile doing only that for the pono.
"hey you'll be using a really low impedance expensive IEM/CIEM with those portable devices? let me measure how good it is into 100000ohm for you!" if that's not a troll I don't know what is.
I'm in love with this blog http://headphoniaks.com/blog/
it's not like they come up with one new measurement every month, but what they do is great and very informative. I can only hope that they will keep on doing it for more DAPs. I feel like if I want to have my answers about the pono, only those guys might do it. because after 2years of world wide blahblah about pono, and even talking to the head engineer, I still don't even know what a pono can drive. that's how much useless BS we've been fed. but I'm complaining too much on pono, can I drive my headphone with a ZX2? no ******* clue. does it measure well into 8 or 16ohm? no idea. but hey! it has some custom caps and they solder the battery with larger wire, that has to be all we need to know to make an informed purchase right!
