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Title: New Portable Player
Post by: OOK on October 20, 2010, 11:43:25 PM
This looks interesting....

http://www.audioadvisor.com/prodinfo.asp?number=HM801

OOK
Title: Re: New Portable Player
Post by: Kush on October 21, 2010, 12:05:50 AM
I posted about that in your other thread. It doesn't play gapless files and costs way too much. And stay off of the Audio Advisor website if you know what's good for you.  ;D
Title: Re: New Portable Player
Post by: OOK on October 21, 2010, 01:07:55 AM
Quote from: Kush on October 21, 2010, 12:05:50 AM
I posted about that in your other thread. It doesn't play gapless files and costs way too much. And stay off of the Audio Advisor website if you know what's good for you.  ;D


duh.....missed that or simply forgot....
Title: Re: New Portable Player
Post by: andromedanwarmachine on October 21, 2010, 05:14:59 AM
Who are those guys?

Looks like a Sony reject design...

Ergonomically that is...
Title: Re: New Portable Player
Post by: tedyun 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-two



Quote from: andromedanwarmachine on October 21, 2010, 05:14:59 AM
Who are those guys?

Looks like a Sony reject design...

Ergonomically that is...
Title: Re: New Portable Player
Post by: andromedanwarmachine on December 07, 2010, 05:18:53 AM
ah, I see!

Gosh- that's some O/P for a one man operation...

That's amazing that you could swap out the chips on one of his designs...

I've never had an iPod myself actually- the last time I was doing portable audio is was from DAT! But I have started fooling around this week with FLAC file downloads and one of my partner's iPods. I have a feeling the intermediary conversion program "MAX" is downscaling the footage though...

Thanks for those links...

JimP