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Lapper
16
Oct 7, 2013
I admire your enthusiasm, but you are not leaving room for critique where critique is due. A&K skimped on storage space, plain and simple. It could sound as good as my home setup and I'm not sure I would be sold. The question remains: if they can afford to put a high-end portable amp and DAC on the board and slap a $700 price tag on it, perhaps they should consider who they are selling this to.
Lossless audio takes up a *lot* of space. To be pedantic, if you were to fill this device with audio representative of the claimed capabilities of its DAC, using only what they give you in the box, you would hit the wall with only ~140 songs to listen to.
Too petty? Let's say you keep a much more realistic 24/96. You can fit ~440 songs at that quality. But let's be fair. It's expandable (cards not included, MSRP $40), so we can fit a lot more 24/192 songs on there. For only $740 MSRP, you can hold a whopping 430 songs in your pocket.
I hope I'm not being unreasonable. It's just that A&K made a new product that can't out-horde 5-year-old tech (at 3x the price). That seems pretty unreasonable to me.
wolfetan44
13
Oct 7, 2013
LapperAlright. Fair enough. It truly does sound fantastic though.
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