Can anyone speak to whether this DAP properly decodes hires (32-bit) lossy files (MP3, etc.), or whether it dummies all lossy decoding to 16-bit, similar to early Fiio firmwares, resulting in quantized noise being added by the decoder?
This issue was apparently fixed by Fiio eventually, and although I'm very much thinking of getting this DAP over any of the Fiio DAPs, part of my collection is lossy and that's not going to change, so high quality lossy playback is as critical to me as high quality lossless playback, if not more so.
I don't believe this concern is limited to me either (
@Marlene), and I imagine that high quality lossy playback is actually quite important in the larger market context beyond the enthusiast market.
In addition, I would guess that xDuoo is very interested in getting adoption within a mainstream context far beyond the scope of the enthusiast market given the price and feature-set, so I hope they agree that high quality lossy playback is very important and that they have equipped the DAP with equally good (32-bit) decoding of lossy and lossless formats that are supported.
If anyone could speak to this concern I would very much appreciate it!