« Reply #4 on: December 01, 2010, 03:25:38 PM »
It's actually 1 guy that is primarily responsible for this product. He is an portable audio audiophile and makes products for other portable audio audiophiles. Previously, he made the Minibox-E portable headphone amplifier, which for $200 sounded amazing and also allowed you to swap out opamps (I had one but unfortunately lost it).
One problem with portable audio is that the portable players aren't really audiophile grade. With the iPod, you can convert it to audiophile grade by modding it, but it is costly, and only available with a specific version of the iPod (5 - 5.5G), unless you do the mod yourself, in which case you have to be really good with the soldering iron.
You can read a nice review of the HiFiMan over at head-fi.org, which is an enthusiast's site for headphone audio:
http://www.head-fi.org/forum/thread/424091/hifiman-hm-801-portable-player-dac-review-part-one-of-twoWho are those guys?
Looks like a Sony reject design...
Ergonomically that is...
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Topic: New Portable Player (Read 2858 times)