In particular
But USB, that's what UAPP is for isn't it?
Not only.
Joe, you see, I truly believe that your team has made a great job to allow other apps to fully utilize your DAPs audio part! But, for software developers and end users, it means nothing.
The problem is that the second peer is always involved: the software music player actually used. And here you can guarantee nothing! You can't ensure that Tidal or Spotify (or any other software player) actually passes even 16 bits into your advanced system bit perfect. You can't guarantee that Amazon Music HD would play 24/192 bit perfect. But that's exactly what the end user is concerned about: he buys a DAP, he buys some other hardware (headphones at least but also external DACs, amps etc), then he buys music and wants to be confident that each bit of music he paid for is not discarded.
Audiophiles are concerned even about 32 bits (they mostly didn't study physics), or S/PDIF output (that you silently left alone
). They are concerned even about a USB DAC connected to an Android device, despite it was advertised that Android has built-in support... just like you advertised DTA
There is no a difference between those ads for end users here. They want to be confident!
And here is UAPP and alike, the software music players that guarantee bit perfect playback from any source file supported on any device supported. And, like you can guarantee nothing regarding 3rd party music players, they can guarantee nothing if they utilize only standard Android sound path. That's the point
expressed by Davy, which I (end user) fully support. UAPP is very special here because it also provides guaranteed bit perfect playback for streaming services, even for those which have official music players.
I hope I explained the vision of HiBy DTA from end users and software developers point of view enough
I remind you that iBasso has implemented even more than DTA in DX100 and then (iBasso extended AudioFormat for 24 & 32 bits and DTS), but they never created a noise around it, understanding that it does not really matter for end user.
@Joe Bloggs, I hope you understand that no hurt was intended, it's only explanation of a vision.
@Davy Wentzler, sorry if it was partially off-topic - I quit.