freesurfer
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Correct me if i'm wrong folks - can an impedance adapter for AK100 be an option for those who don't want to spend a money for a new pair of IEM of RWAK100 upgrade?
Correct me if i'm wrong folks - can an impedance adapter for AK100 be an option for those who don't want to spend a money for a new pair of IEM of RWAK100 upgrade?
I am all for being critical about deficiencies in a product, but not owning the product or possibly even using/hearing it makes your participation worthless.
I disagree. One doesn't need to own the DAP in order to criticize the lack of a very basic and essential feature.
90% of us have lived without gapless the whole life and no one suffered the lack of it until the time if Internet and pseudo-audiophile features.
Essential is a very strong word. 90% of us have lived without gapless the whole life and no one suffered the lack of it until the time if Internet and pseudo-audiophile features.
Quote:I am all for being critical about deficiencies in a product, but not owning the product or possibly even using/hearing it makes your participation worthless.
I disagree. One doesn't need to own the DAP in order to criticize the lack of a very basic and essential feature.
Quote:90% of us have lived without gapless the whole life and no one suffered the lack of it until the time if Internet and pseudo-audiophile features.
You've got it all wrong, actually. CDs, minidiscs, vinyl records, cassette tapes were all gapless. Maybe you're too young to remember those. CD-Audio was launched in 1982 and that's the year I was born, so that's literally my whole life.
It's with the advent of MP3 and computer audio in the late 90's that hardware and software players started appearing without that feature.
Also, gapless playback isn't a pseudo audiophile feature. It's an essential feature with albums where some or all tracks flow into each other without interruption. Would you enjoy it if a live orchestra suddenly stopped playing for a second, right in the middle of a melody?
You've got it all wrong, actually. CDs, minidiscs, vinyl records, cassette tapes were all gapless. Maybe you're too young to remember those. CD-Audio was launched in 1982 and that's the year I was born, so that's literally my whole life.
It's with the advent of MP3 and computer audio in the late 90's that hardware and software players started appearing without that feature.
Also, gapless playback isn't a pseudo audiophile feature. It's an essential feature with albums where some or all tracks flow into each other without interruption. Would you enjoy it if a live orchestra suddenly stopped playing for a second, right in the middle of a melody?
Who knows what other flaws it hides when it cannot even do basic playback right?
Just exercising my First Amendment rights....
Obviously.
Just kind of sad to think about someone going out of there way to consistently nit-pick a product they don't own and to insert their opinion on a topic in such a negative snarky manor.
IMO gapless playback is such a non issue and is a very minor negative when considering all the positives that can be attributed to this player.
There is a chance that a firmware update will make it gapless in the future, and if not there are other ways around it if need be. Anything that can be fixed with a firmware update should be seen as a temporary issue with a possible fix in the future. Look at the dx100 and all their ui issues in the beginning, one thing ibasso cannot fix with a firmware update is the fact that it is a un-pocketable brick.
You can find positives and negatives in everything, I just happen to find more critical positives with this player than any other I have owned or tried. Which is quite a few.