[MrWalkman]

Quick question, is DSD automatically output from SE now or do I have to activate it in settings?

Got myself a Blu Ray player that can rip SACDs so I’m diving into DSD for the first time

Auto unless you uncheck the option in Settings.

 

[psund70]

Hi, got a problem. My a45 do not boot up, stays at the animation. Waited over an hour, tryeid reboot and without SD card. Without card it boots, suspect too many songs (17000)? It worked great until a cold start, removed a lot of tracks but no go.

 

[MrWalkman]

Hi, got a problem. My a45 do not boot up, stays at the animation. Waited over an hour, tryeid reboot and without SD card. Without card it boots, suspect too many songs (17000)? It worked great until a cold start, removed a lot of tracks but no go.

I would recommend a factory reset, and also formatting the card directly in the player (save the songs on your computer first).

 

[psund70]

I would recommend a factory reset, and also formatting the card directly in the player (save the songs on your computer first).

I tried, unfortunately it seems that my new 400gb SanDisk card is corrupt can not format the card. It's a genuine card not fake.

 

[aceedburn]

I tried, unfortunately it seems that my new 400gb SanDisk card is corrupt can not format the card. It's a genuine card not fake.

Hmm, quite rare for a micro sd card to fail nowadays. How long have you had it? Did you try formatting it in your pc with a disk formatter?

 

[MrWalkman]

I tried, unfortunately it seems that my new 400gb SanDisk card is corrupt can not format the card. It's a genuine card not fake.

So if you connect your card to the PC, it's visible but you cannot format it? How can't you format it, do you get an error or what?

 

[psund70]

First time with a card reader windows says can not format card. Then a use a program for harddrives and it formats the card but it stays the same. Nothing changes and now windows does not recognize it anymore. Tried to format it in a camera but with no success, just an error that it can't format the card

 

[aceedburn]

First time with a card reader windows says can not format card. Then a use a program for harddrives and it formats the card but it stays the same. Nothing changes and now windows does not recognize it anymore. Tried to format it in a camera but with no success, just an error that it can't format the card

If it’s so. It appears you have a faulty card. Sandisk has a lifetime warranty or at least 5 years warranty for most of their cards. You could have it replaced.

 

[psund70]

If it’s so. It appears you have a faulty card. Sandisk has a lifetime warranty or at least 5 years warranty for most of their cards. You could have it replaced.

Looks that way, already mailed the where I bought it.

 

[Mindstorms]

can someone help me with a very good headphone recomendation for a weak source like a phone? sorry allways offtopic...

 

[Layman1]

can someone help me with a very good headphone recomendation for a weak source like a phone? sorry allways offtopic...

I reviewed the iBasso SR2 headphones recently. I think they are outstanding (especially at the price) and by all accounts they're very easy to drive too!
See the reviews page for more:
https://www.head-fi.org/showcase/ibasso-audio-sr2.24689/reviews

 

[RYCeT]

can someone help me with a very good headphone recomendation for a weak source like a phone? sorry allways offtopic...

Sony MDR-1a or MDR-1am2

 

[auronthas]

AAC 256 can actually sound really good. An advice would be to not focus on the technical part, like "oh, it's lossy, 256 kbps, it must be bad".

I know someone who was so into WAV files, and even how WAV sounds better than FLAC, and now he's all into Spotify for example.

Try seeing the whole picture, and don't focus on imperfections.

Agreed, most important is the origin of master recording, bought few Apple Music "Master" albums, they are good even in AAC 256kbps.

Some recording 'remaster', 're-record' making the sound worse with loudness only and lack of details/depths.

 

[auronthas]

can someone help me with a very good headphone recomendation for a weak source like a phone? sorry allways offtopic...

Denon D-5200, easy to drive, no head-amp required, nice zebrawood headphone.

 

[newworld666]

Agreed, most important is the origin of master recording, bought few Apple Music "Master" albums, they are good even in AAC 256kbps.

Some recording 'remaster', 're-record' making the sound worse with loudness only and lack of details/depths.

It can be true, but sometimes it can be amazing too .. and you can easily notice that at 256kbps you loose really lot compared to a 1500kps with modern headphones..
You can take for instance many of Steven Wilson remixing works for the last decade of old stuff of the 70's with some of Gentle Giant, King Crimson, Jethro Tull, Simple Minds, Roxy Music, Chicago, ... records, just impressive how it can sound in 24/96.