[Vinnie R.]

  Waiting for your impression. I am considering between this and hugo. 
 
Also,
coming from a flashlight moderate collector, does the 18650 battery uses on battery protection or in the charging module?

 
Hi EH-Yeon,
 
The battery protection is in a small PCB built into the battery pack.  There are 3 cells in series (11.1V) - and the pack itself
is protected from over and under voltage, and short circuit conditions.
 
Maybe ALO has a picture of the battery pack to show what it looks like?
 
Vinnie

 

[mscott58]

Hi EH-Yeon,

The battery protection is in a small PCB built into the battery pack.  There are 3 cells in series (11.1V) - and the pack itself
is protected from over and under voltage, and short circuit conditions.

Maybe ALO has a picture of the battery pack to show what it looks like?

Vinnie

Vinnie - How do you know when the battery is done charging? Does it have an LED like the Rx? Cheers

 

[Vinnie R.]

Vinnie - How do you know when the battery is done charging? Does it have an LED like the Rx? Cheers

Yes, but the LED is on the charger

 

[mscott58]

Yes, but the LED is on the charger

Nice. That works. Do you know the colors of the LEDs?

 

[raypin]

mmm.....if the charger is similar in function to  the charger for the Alo The PanAm/Passport, the LED changes color to denote the charge state. If memory serves me right, red LED - still charging, yellow - almost charged and  green LED - fully charged PanAm/Passport.  

 

[mscott58]

  mmm.....if the charger is similar in function to  the charger for the Alo The PanAm/Passport, the LED changes color to denote the charge state. If memory serves me right, red LED - still charging, yellow - almost charged and  green LED - fully charged PanAm/Passport.  

Yeah, that seems to be correct. It shows red while charging and then green when charged. Cheers 

 

[jlbrach]

Battery life sounds like an issue to me,7 hours and less than that using DAC and we all know these numbers are inflated to begin with....i recognize size issues but battery life should be better

 

[mscott58]

  Battery life sounds like an issue to me,7 hours and less than that using DAC and we all know these numbers are inflated to begin with....i recognize size issues but battery life should be better

Seeing that the CDM runs in Class A and powers two vacuum tubes and gets very warm during operation IMHO 7 hours of battery life is highly respectable! This is not meant to be your run-of-the-mill portable DAC/amp. Cheers

 

[DecentLevi]

Well it sounds like a case of 'bang for the size', where they probably had to strike a balance between it being too heavy vs. battery life. But when do you really need 7-ish hour battery life? A daily commute should be just fine both ways, and for any overseas journey you can just take along a portable power-bank. These Range anywhere from $10-100 and can charge almost any portable device on the go, even several times each depending. Otherwise I would usually just use it's DAC and/or amp at home and battery life wouldn't be an issue using the wall outlet.

 

[EH-Yeon]

Well, if the battery life is an issue you can always get extra batteries, since 18650 batteries are pretty common and you can get them easily. Provided that they are using a common Panasonic 18650 batteries and how easy we can change them. We will know once the instructions are out.

Leave that for now, I am more concern whether there will be audible hiss/ noise when we are pairing with sensitive iem. At least they are present in the previous continental If I am not wrong after reading the old thread.

 

[mscott58]

Well, if the battery life is an issue you can always get extra batteries, since 18650 batteries are pretty common and you can get them easily. Provided that they are using a common Panasonic 18650 batteries and how easy we can change them. We will know once the instructions are out.

Leave that for now, I am more concern whether there will be audible hiss/ noise when we are pairing with sensitive iem. At least they are present in the previous continental If I am not wrong after reading the old thread.

Listening to the CDM right now with my K-10s and no "hiss" issue unless I put the gain setting to "High", and then it is indeed noticeable. However there is no need to run the CDM on "High" gain with IEMs like the K-10's as the "Low" setting is more than enough to drive my Noble's to ear-hurting volumes. Cheers 

 

[EH-Yeon]

Listening to the CDM right now with my K-10s and no "hiss" issue unless I put the gain setting to "High", and then it is indeed noticeable. However there is no need to run the CDM on "High" gain with IEMs like the K-10's as the "Low" setting is more than enough to drive my Noble's to ear-hurting volumes. Cheers 

Cool, waiting for your lethal poison injection.

 

[mscott58]

Cool, waiting for your lethal poison injection.

Ha! Nice. 

 

[KB]

All,
 
The charger than we supply with the CDM is a good switching charger you can charge while listening and there is no noise it is very quite. FYI.
 
Thanks all 
 
Ken

 

[raypin]

  Well it sounds like a case of 'bang for the size', where they probably had to strike a balance between it being too heavy vs. battery life. But when do you really need 7-ish hour battery life? A daily commute should be just fine both ways, and for any overseas journey you can just take along a portable power-bank. These Range anywhere from $10-100 and can charge almost any portable device on the go, even several times each depending. Otherwise I would usually just use it's DAC and/or amp at home and battery life wouldn't be an issue using the wall outlet.

mmm.....a run-of-the mill power bank that outputs 5 volts (1.5 to 2 amps) can recharge the CDM??? Is this possible/safe???