[CraftyClown]

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Only time will tell if AK120 will be widely accepted at that price so we can all leave the RRP bashing aside first.
 
I am more interested to see how much improvement is there over the AK100.

 
Agreed. I will decide whether this device is worth my hard earned spondoolies once I've had a listen.
 
If what spkrs01 is saying is correct, then it could be a bit special

 

[Gintaras]

Jazzi, welcome to the club, Metrum is on my order list and i will have it in 2 weeks, i am such a sucker for NOS DACs and NOS tubes :-D
funny is i tried many DACs and no could convince me, i just cannot stand oversampling

ok, enough ramblings, now we wait for esteemed head fiers who have new AK to tell us about their experience ... Hearing is believing ))

 

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[Mython]

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Only time will tell if AK120 will be widely accepted at that price so we can all leave the RRP bashing aside first.
 

 
 
Speak for yourself. Don't presume to speak for 'we'.

 

[Mython]

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...now we wait for esteemed head fiers who have new AK to tell us about their experience ... Hearing is believing ))

 
Agreed.

 

[Jazzyfi]

Yeah, me too. I just love NOS sound, that's why I went for Tera Player. Anyway, I'm very curious about the new AK120. Waiting for sprks01, Expat, and Anakchan review

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Jazzi, welcome to the club, Metrum is on my order list and i will have it in 2 weeks, i am such a sucker for NOS DACs and NOS tubes :-D
funny is i tried many DACs and no could convince me, i just cannot stand oversampling

ok, enough ramblings, now we wait for esteemed head fiers who have new AK to tell us about their experience ... Hearing is believing ))

 

[AmberOzL]

If possible I am also curious about project86's review, if he ever will do one though.

 

[jamato8]

The problem I have with the price is that there isn't really the parts to qualify this unit at this range. The Wolfson 8740 is around 2 dollars when bought in volume, the extra parts for the circuit of that extra dac, a few dollars the larger case, not really an additional cost. So lets say they are paying 25 more dollars for the AK120 or a generous, and I don't see it, 50 dollars, how does that get you to 1300 dollars? The R&D is already out there. Think about it. 

 

[woodcans]

The problem I have with the price is that there isn't really the parts to qualify this unit at this range. The Wolfson 8740 is around 2 dollars when bought in volume, the extra parts for the circuit of that extra dac, a few dollars the larger case, not really an additional cost. So lets say they are paying 25 more dollars for the AK120 or a generous, and I don't see it, 50 dollars, how does that get you to 1300 dollars? The R&D is already out there. Think about it. 

Who wants to donate one to ifixit??

 

[Hutnicks]

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The problem I have with the price is that there isn't really the parts to qualify this unit at this range. The Wolfson 8740 is around 2 dollars when bought in volume, the extra parts for the circuit of that extra dac, a few dollars the larger case, not really an additional cost. So lets say they are paying 25 more dollars for the AK120 or a generous, and I don't see it, 50 dollars, how does that get you to 1300 dollars? The R&D is already out there. Think about it. 

Bingo. It's a cash grab. First off if the damn thing was labelled iRiver rather than Haagen Dazs, it would be lucky to fetch 500 bucks.
 
For the price I would expect.
 
A full size touchscreen interface.
A minimum of 128 GB on board memory with a 2 GB playback buffer.
2 SD card slots
Ability to plug in and build a playlist from a USB Hard Disk.
Ability to copy to and from any of the above media.
A high quality AC adapter charger
Ability to record to any of the above media.
 
You could put the above together, sell it for 799 bucks and still make heaps of profit.

 

[ButtUglyJeff]

Can you bypass the internal amp in this?  Just wondering if you have to listen to the AK120 "double amped" if you want to run it through an external portable/desktop, whatever....

 

[DarkSkies]

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where did you find on amazon.de ? Are you sure? Don't see any.

 
http://www.amazon.de/dp/B00COOHW8I/ref=asc_df_B00COOHW8I13182631?smid=A15FD6TNF2FAT6&tag=geizhals10-21&linkCode=asn&creative=22506&creativeASIN=B00COOHW8I
 
there are more. use geizhals.de to find them. looks like amazon's db didn't catalogue all the offers yet.

 

[DarkSkies]

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In the EU there is a mandatory 2 year warranty against defective goods. It might even cover gapless playback not being gapless.

 
This is correct EU directive 99/44/EC (which e.g. Germany adopted in full, so did other counties, Austria, Poland, Denmark and so on...) also protects the consumer from falsely advertise electronics. You would have to sue AK or iriver in a civil court, though.

 

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[DarkSkies]

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must be a headache when many vynil... also i had some vynil ripped flacs and they sounded never as good

 
Properly ripped vinyl sounds pretty much 1:1 in flac. Prolly the person who ripped them screwed up the process.