[whatislife]

Hi, Just got my DX50. Should I play with the EQ? or it is fine the way it is? Thanks in advance

I would say go in small increments if you want to adjust your sound sig, but keep in mind an eq like that of the dx50 will only contribute to at most 15-20% of the sound. Personally I bump the lower frequencies up with my arrow and um3x.

 

[H20Fidelity]

Wow dude I haven't been on headfi for ages I'm glad to see your still goin strong with the dx50 ITS A BEAST

 
Yup, still here. Think I've owned three DX50's now. The current one I picked up real cheap and keep it around.
 
Its a good player.

 

[ptjw99]

for the longest time i've had an artist show up with a semicolon in my list and I can't figure out what text in the tag causes this, for example an artist called John with an album called Alpha and Bravo, I will see the following:
 
John;John : Alpha;Alpha (something wrong here)
 
and 
 
John : Bravo (correct, nothing wrong)
 
I've searched the tags and labels in the album and can't find anything out of the ordinary, anyone have any idea?

 

[mpawluk91]

Yup, still here. Think I've owned three DX50's now. The current one I picked up real cheap and keep it around.

Its a good player.

H20 do you know what firmware for the dx50 sounds the best? Is it an official release or a custom one from lurker?
Thanks lol I'm hopeless

 

[CoiL]

My opinion - SU 1.3.3 @ FLAC/ iir off/ cpu default. But ofc, this is with upgraded hardware. With stock hardware I found SUEX sound "best" but it is little buggy and NDFFF and SU 1.3.3 sounded also very good.

 

[H20Fidelity]

I use v1.9.3
 
Not that I've played with many others recently. My Tralucent Ref.1 sounds quite good on that firmware.
 
No need to fix what isn't broken.

 

[mpawluk91]

I just installed the v1.9.3 I don't know what I like better the dx50 or the original fiio x3 they're so similar. (My girlfriend however thinks her x3 is the bees knees)

 

[lofgents]

The best firmware I have found is DX50_TRUE_SOUND_V2_BY_DOC2008, I am running my DX50 via coax out to to iBasso D14 and have Beyerdynamic DT 1350 cc.
 
Music tastes vary from Symphonic Rock Epica/ Within Temptation, Killers, Koshheen, Nick Cave, and David Bowie. Plus lots of other stuff too many to list.

 

[mpawluk91]

The best firmware I have found is DX50_TRUE_SOUND_V2_BY_DOC2008, I am running my DX50 via coax out to to iBasso D14 and have Beyerdynamic DT 1350 cc.

Music tastes vary from Symphonic Rock Epica/ Within Temptation, Killers, Koshheen, Nick Cave, and David Bowie. Plus lots of other stuff too many to list.

Where the heck did you download that!? I want to try it out with some rock of my own

 

[caprimulgus]

ok, so i know DX50 is not really a basshead DAP, but is there a best firmware for a basshead?
 
is the RockBox EQ better than the stock one?

 

[FlacFan]

  ok, so i know DX50 is not really a basshead DAP, but is there a best firmware for a basshead?
 
is the RockBox EQ better than the stock one?

Don't know about the basshead, but RockBox rocks. Not only is the EQ better, almost everything else is better too.
 
Please note: RockBox does not support HiRes files at all.
 
If you want to give it a shot, head over here: http://www.head-fi.org/t/709855/rockbox-for-ibasso-dx50-dual-boot-with-stock-firmware
 
Mango and RB side by side - cannot get any better than that.
 
Cheers.

 

[caprimulgus]

  Don't know about the basshead, but RockBox rocks. Not only is the EQ better, almost everything else is better too.
 

 
cheers, i use RockBox on my Sansa Clip Zip, so may have to just jump over to RockBox on the DX50 too!
 
better EQ is reason enough!

 

[7S Cameron]

  ok, so i know DX50 is not really a basshead DAP, but is there a best firmware for a basshead?
 
is the RockBox EQ better than the stock one?

I use Rockbox, but the DX50's weakest quality is its bass. The best firmware for bass and sound IMO is Sound Unlocked experimental. Personally, I wouldn't use it because it is buggy. The 2nd best option is doc2008's firmware.
 
For overall use and sound I would use Rockbox.

 

[caprimulgus]

  I use Rockbox, but the DX50's weakest quality is its bass. The best firmware for bass and sound IMO is Sound Unlocked experimental. Personally, I wouldn't use it because it is buggy. The 2nd best option is doc2008's firmware.
 
For overall use and sound I would use Rockbox.

 
ah cool. where would SU 1.3.3/1.5.1 sit within that ranking for bass and general sound/usability?

 

[7S Cameron]

 
I use Rockbox, but the DX50's weakest quality is its bass. The best firmware for bass and sound IMO is Sound Unlocked experimental. Personally, I wouldn't use it because it is buggy. The 2nd best option is doc2008's firmware.

For overall use and sound I would use Rockbox.

ah cool. where would SU 1.3.3/1.5.1 sit within that ranking for bass and general sound/usability?

For me 1.3.3 SU and DOCs newest firmware are VERY close. It comes down to preference. Those are both in 2nd in my opinion. The usability is same as stock firmware, I love replaygain in Rockbox too much or I would be using one of those. I also find the shuffle algorithm to not work very well in Mango. Maybe it's just me as I haven't seen anyone else comment on it. DOCs firmware has more lows and highs. 1.3.3 SU is closer to neutral.