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Mar 10, 2014 at 10:00 PM Post #5,536 of 7,071
papiro2 said:
  Earlier comments by A&K  indicated that for AK100 and Ak120 the micro SD card (128 GB) must be FAT 32 formatted, is that the case or you just plugged and played?
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Works fine as shipped - exFAT.   One of the two cards purchased was defective and I will be sending it back, so I only have one in use at the moment.   Filled the card and played 90-minutes of music today without any problems.
 
Mar 10, 2014 at 11:13 PM Post #5,537 of 7,071
GoodVibes,
 
Greetings. I read your post on the impedance issues with the AK120 with great interest and hope you can shed some light on my possible impedance-related issue. I bought an AK120 and paired it with an ALO Mark II and UE 11 IEMs. For some strange reason, I find that I have to use the EQ on the AK120 in a u-shape with bass and treble turned up almost all the way to get the highs and lows I used to get with ease using an old iTouch 5 into the original Cypher Labs Algorhythm Solo and then line out into the Mark II. The input impedance on the Mark II is 40K, output impedance less than 1 ohm. Not sure what the output impedance is on the CLAS. Any ideas what's going on here? If I have to use EQ, then so be it because I love everything else about the AK 120 but it seems weird that I need to push the EQ to such extremes to get the same sound as I had using the CLAS with no EQ from the direct digital signal out from the iTouch. Is the Titan's less than 3 ohm out not as good a match with the 40 K input impedance of my Mark II amp as the old CLAS line out may have been? Would a different amp pair better with the Titan?
 
Mar 11, 2014 at 7:41 AM Post #5,540 of 7,071
Besides, just like PriceJapan, there are mail services for one to order stuff from the US.
 
Mar 11, 2014 at 12:49 PM Post #5,543 of 7,071
papiro2 said:
  Amazon sells to other parts of the world (EG: Ecuador, Brazil). Custom duties and regulations might prevent or complicate the delivery to final destination.
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Only Amazon.com (US) has the Sandisk 128GB microsdxc cards. Amazon.ca (Canada) doesn`t have them and I don`t think any other Amazon sites have them.
 
Mar 11, 2014 at 1:41 PM Post #5,544 of 7,071
Mar 11, 2014 at 5:57 PM Post #5,546 of 7,071
imod said:
 
Thank you!  I just opened an account. I just ordered 2 cards from Amazon and for some reason now they will ship to my Canada address. ????
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Congrats, but who knows what's going on with Amazon.  I already got 2x 64 Gb cards for my AK120, but so far they are both empty as I can't even fill its internal 64Gb, or else I would have gotten a card and try it.
 
Mar 12, 2014 at 2:03 AM Post #5,548 of 7,071
I am having the weirdest thing happen with my 120.  I have restarted and scanned it many times to get it to work.
 
I have a band that i loaded music into earlier.  There is a lot of music from this band, 15gb maybe 20.  I went to listen to the music that i had been hearing earlier and it can not find the file.  I go to that sd card and open it and i just get that folder with the brackets and dots, no albums listed.  I go to the band list and try to pull some of the concerts and it can not find any files.  So i figure they got deleted…..but no, when i turn on the computer i can put in the 120 as a disc and pull the songs and play them.  They are still on the card and usable as disc but not findable by the 120.  The only thing i can figure is that it lost the path to the songs.  All other artists and files work from what i can tell.  So I deleted all of that music and renamed the band in caps and am reloading the first 24 bit album now.  We will see what happens.
 
Edit-Okay, that appears to have worked.  Hmmm.  
 
Mar 12, 2014 at 2:49 AM Post #5,549 of 7,071
dallan said:
  I am having the weirdest thing happen with my 120.  I have restarted and scanned it many times to get it to work.
 
I have a band that i loaded music into earlier.  There is a lot of music from this band, 15gb maybe 20.  I went to listen to the music that i had been hearing earlier and it can not find the file.  I go to that sd card and open it and i just get that folder with the brackets and dots, no albums listed.  I go to the band list and try to pull some of the concerts and it can not find any files.  So i figure they got deleted…..but no, when i turn on the computer i can put in the 120 as a disc and pull the songs and play them.  They are still on the card and usable as disc but not findable by the 120.  The only thing i can figure is that it lost the path to the songs.  All other artists and files work from what i can tell.  So I deleted all of that music and renamed the band in caps and am reloading the first 24 bit album now.  We will see what happens.
 
Edit-Okay, that appears to have worked.  Hmmm.  
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dalian, when that happens, I would just switch off the AK120 and on again. That usually takes care of the problem. The AK 120 occasionally fails to read the card. Sometimes the card doesn't even show up. Plan B is to eject and reinsert the card. Hope that works for you the next time you come across this issue. 
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