OnlySound
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How about adding in acoustic research m2
Did you, or have you been using the Mojo with the Samsung phone? Apologies if I missed the answer.
How about adding in acoustic research m2
A audition is ten times better than a review.I found a store which has a LOT of the TOTL-DAPs on display, ready to be listened to, within 100 km of my hometown Hamburg, but the Acoustic research is very hard to find over here...
A audition is ten times better than a review.
I also concerned (and ruled out):
- Calyx M : nice looking and highly regarded player, but batteries seem to last only meager 4-5 hours, UI seems a little laggy on videos i´ve seen, more expensive than the others but not necessarily better SQ, weird magnetic volume-slider attached to one side of the device
FWIW I'm starting to feel that the X7 is as good-sounding as the Calyx.
FWIW I'm starting to feel that the X7 is as good-sounding as the Calyx.
Now that´s interesting! Is this a general impression or are you referring to a certain module, if I may ask?
...If any, it´ll most probably come down to either the AK300 (I just got aware of it 4 or 5 weeks ago) or the Onkyo-DAP. Since I do not plan to sell off my Chord Mojo anymore, the initial „SQ-first“-premise doesn´t apply anymore and those two seem to be the best overall-package to me ... So, hopefully, I will be able to compare the Astell&Kern directly to the Onkyo one day, strangely enough the latter still is pretty hard to come by over here (besides some shady ebay sellers). I could buy even the Acoustic Research M2 (by far not as popular) at Amazon.de and the Pioneer-DAP is on display at the local Best Buy – counterpart, yet Onkyo seems to keep neglecting the german market regarding their DAP…
**A&K has an alarming way of downgrading their DACs (reminds me of CPU / GPU chip-binning based on speed classes... :blink: ) Let's take the 300s as an example:
AK380 = dual AK4490 w native DSD processing, 32b384K PCM & DSD256; AK320 = dual AK4490 sans native DSD & limited to 24b192K PCM & DSD128. AK300 = single AK4490 version of the 320.
**A&K has an alarming way of downgrading their DACs (reminds me of CPU / GPU chip-binning based on speed classes...) Let's take the 300s as an example:
AK380 = dual AK4490 w native DSD processing, 32b384K PCM & DSD256; AK320 = dual AK4490 sans native DSD & limited to 24b192K PCM & DSD128. AK300 = single AK4490 version of the 320.
What's alarming about a DAP manufacturer wanting to cover all the bases? They all do it. It's just good business to offer products in multiple price brackets. Not everybody can afford the best. I know I can't
I can't say for certain about the AK3xx line, but in the AK2xx line, native DSD was only possible in the AK240 because it had a DSD chip along side the two regular DAC ships the AK120II possesses...