Recent content by mlknez

Things have changed since I made my original post of observations. Neutron Player now supports the Sabre DAC with the exception of MQA and DSD256. As a side note to the person that asked, the stock LG Music Player was not made to play via USB and does not correctly support USB attached DACs...

Try this with just the phone and no amp... 1.unplug the cord from the left ear cup 2. plug the normal cable end into the phone. (it should trigger aux mode) 3. plug the left ear cup back in you will get a 150mw boost in power. That may be enough to drive your headphones without the amp.

what do you mean by activate?

No, audio files can be sent to the onboard DACs unretouched on Android.

The V30 Sabre ESS9218P DAC CAN play DSD up to DSD256 natively. The only caveat is that you can currently ONLY use the stock LG music player to do so. The stock player will play .dsf and .dff files but not .iso files. You must extract the individual tracks to either .dsf or .dff first. This...

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The Eagles recorded most of their music on Studer A800 2 inch tape decks. These were the best tech at the time. This particular machine can record up to 17.8khz max when staying under 1% distortion. The max dynamic range was equivalent to about 9bits. That isn't even accounting for drift...

The problem is not in the hardware, it is the content. You have not tested music that was RECORDED in high-res. All of your music was recorded in standard or LOWER than standard CD res. The content was then digitized into a large high-res container and filled with zeros. HDtracks makes you...

Tidal works the same.

It can play PCM up to 192khz but no DSD and no MQA. That means that it CAN'T make full use of the Sabre DAC.

The Android Qobuz app does use the ES9218P DAC for output. I did an analysis on the output of 30 tracks that Qobuz defines as "hi-resolution" and all but 1 was really a standard or lower than standard resolution recording stuffed into a 192khz container. Most didn't even have any energy over...

Yes, just use the stock file manager app

Google play music does not have an equalizer on the V30.

Yes it will

Did you see the words "to it's full potential?" Google music is not able to play DSD natively or PCM>192khz natively or unfold MQA.