heyysanadiyom
100+ Head-Fier
in terms of design... they are not as good as they sound
of course , ak much much much better than fiio ,
in terms of design... they are not as good as they sound
Yes, AK is much much more expensive than Fiio.
X1 is an affordable dap
Oh, yes you can recognize immediately their DAPs.
They all have a big ridiculous volume knob.
Which makes it hard to put in your pockets sometimes
Lots of room in there though, with all the money you emptied out of them to buy it.
Habitually ALWAYS buy professional stuff... but there is no professional DAP on the market.
The other disadvantage was that, being "pro," it worked with pro formats - DSD and WAV, no uncompressed smaller files like FLAC, much less compressed audio. Interface harks back to my slightly larger Creative 30gb HDD player.
Professionals uses mainly ipods... in their private life.
Recorders UIs are horrible.
Exactly why no one saw the need for a "pro" DAP. If that Korg had a more usable battery life I could totally live with its UI - it's very simple, true, but as long as you can live with its bare-bones design, you can just consider yourself lucky as you read through all sorts of posts ranging from "album art not shown" and "tracks not showing up after SD scan/only visible in browse mode" all the way to "crashed and bricked" on some DAPs' threads.
Try to read the screen under direct sunlight
Well I personally wouldn't be doing that unless I'm actually using it as a field recorder. Under direct sunlight half the time means "outdoors" (ie not "sitting by the window") and over here "outdoors" can mean "goodbye (device)" as some homeless kid whose idiot family who can't cut it in the economy but made too many children runs past you and grabs it so he can buy bread. I think the only places where I fiddle with my device (including taking calls) "outdoors" are inside our campus or inside open space/garden-type malls and even then I avoid putting my phone screens on max brightness to minimize battery consumption.