There have been more as compared to a handful of so-called “high end” audio players released by Chinese manufacturers, and they all have some things in common: horrible UI and usability, pathetic internal storage size, no support for audio characteristics as gap less playback, Replay again, play lists, and so on. Not to refer, the claim that those instruments sound any “better” than the next quality brand player has even to be proven.


Leaving the subjective sound quality debate out of the picture, iBasso, pretty experienced manufacturer of portable headphone amps, appears to display other “audiophile” brands how it could be done better when it comes to designing

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a portable player. When however sporting an immense brick form factor as its Hifiman, Colorfly, and Hi Sound peers, iBasso recognized that UIs cobbled together by few hacker kids in their spare time are unworthy – so they did the smart thing and put Android on their DX100. This should hopefully enable the usage of Rock box, Power amp, Player Pro, or other standard software for audio playback.


Inner storage seemingly goes up to a whopping 64GB, and a Micro SD slot is also usable. Here’s where the question about the price of the DX100 should come up. I experience as much as you make – only that it probably will be a bit more as compared to what a Sansa Clip becomes for. This pretty over kill-ish 8-channel ESS Sabre ES9018 DAC of course isn’t betrothed for portable use, but for stationary instruments. Let’s hope the battery life of the DX100 is assessed in hours, not minutes.