[Gilly87]

  That's good news

 
What would the steps on the (small screen) one I heard at Canjam London have been?

4 dB, I believe.

 

[BeatsWork]

  The cleverness of the flask design only goes so far, in my opinion.  It's clever for about 20 seconds.  

 
Agree, next they'll be making DAPs shaped like Toblerone bars ...

 

[Q Mass]

4 dB, I believe.

In that case 2db per step sounds very promising.


Regarding the shape, if you look back at the early posts in this thread you'll see that I was very sceptical about the flask design, and advised against it.
The concepr seemed slightly tacky to me.

Having seen the revised model in the flesh, with the wood shell, I'm a lot more positive about the design, and 'in hand' it doesn't look or feel as though it's trying to ape a hip flask.
More like it has simply concieved to be more pocket friendly.
The engraved wood is VERY nice, and the volume knob is a real pleasure to use (and it sounds as though my criticism of the coarse steps has been addressed).
My overall impression of the DAP was a classy piece of kit, not the Harley Davidson belt buckle school of design which I feared.

My favourite DAP's (looks wise anyway) are the iBasso ones.
I like the 'pro-sumer' look they manage.
But the Explorer now ranks right up there with them IMO.
Certainly much better than many others, even summit-fi DAPS like the AK's of this world (sorry, but the 240 especially is ugly in extremis, even if it sounds wonderful).

I now hope more DAP's appear with unusual designs and materials.

 

[Gilly87]

   
Agree, next they'll be making DAPs shaped like Toblerone bars ...

 
Ew. Don't say that 

 

[Q Mass]

I've heard rumours of a chocolate fountain shaped desktop rig.

 

[BeatsWork]

I've heard rumours of a chocolate fountain shaped desktop rig.

 
I've heard it.  Rich and flowing dark soundstage and pairs well with vintage songs...

 

[Gilly87]

I've heard rumours of a chocolate fountain shaped desktop rig.

 

 

[ElMariachi]

whats the battery life like on the explorer?

 

[Gilly87]

3700 mAh = 6-8 hours streaming 16 bit/44.1khz FLAC through TIDAL, 10-12 hours local lossless playback.

 

[ElMariachi]

3700 mAh = 6-8 hours streaming 16 bit/44.1khz FLAC through TIDAL, 10-12 hours local lossless playback.

Thank you!

 

[EchoboxAudio]

Hey guys. For the past few days our team have been working around the clock here in Los Angeles on our indiegogo campaign. We should know the exact lunch date in a a few days. So stay in tune. As you all know our titanium housing ear buds are very study, some might even say they are indestructible. So we did a LA traffic experiment, we taped the Finder X1 on the street and have it run over by multiple cars, include a UPS truck and a police car. Enjoy! If you have any question feel free to leave comment below and be sure to subscribe to our channel.
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ES4c_MarYFk

 

[BeatsWork]

  We should know the exact lunch date in a a few days. So stay in tune.

 
What's on the menu?  Keeping in theme I assume this will be some sort of whiskey pairing event?

 

[Deftone]

flask design not a good idea in my opinion.

 

[vtkc]

  Hey guys. For the past few days our team have been working around the clock here in Los Angeles on our indiegogo campaign. We should know the exact lunch date in a a few days. So stay in tune. As you all know our titanium housing ear buds are very study, some might even say they are indestructible. So we did a LA traffic experiment, we taped the Finder X1 on the street and have it run over by multiple cars, include a UPS truck and a police car. Enjoy! If you have any question feel free to leave comment below and be sure to subscribe to our channel.
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ES4c_MarYFk

 
Will there be any reviews by reputable IEM reviewers before the Indiegogo campaign? 

 

[Gilly87]

   
Will there be any reviews by reputable IEM reviewers before the Indiegogo campaign? 

 
Should be! We'll have samples going out early next week ^_^