jonners
16-08-2009, 19:58
I've just bought one of these: http://www.qlshifi.com/en/wzcapi/qa550.htm
It needs an external dac, so you could say it's not really a 'player'. I payed around £65 for it all told (no duty or vat to pay :)), and it arrived from China in just over a week.
I bought it because I like the idea of a player with no moving parts, no discs to get scratched, etc... but also because of its diy tweakability, not least in the form of I2S outputs available on the circuit board.
I got it up and running in a matter of minutes. An 8GB SD card (the maximum it will take) will store around 12 uncompressed CDs in WAV format. Amazon seems to be as cheap as anywhere for the cards at around £10 each.
My initial impressions of the sound, using SPDIF connection, are very favourable. It's at least as good as my "Shigaclone" transport, which itself has led to some people selling on their four-figure transports. I think it may even have the edge on musicality and feel-good listenability. :smoking: It comes with a basic 'wall wart' power supply, and a better psu certainly helps.
I will report again when I get round to looking inside and tinkering.
It needs an external dac, so you could say it's not really a 'player'. I payed around £65 for it all told (no duty or vat to pay :)), and it arrived from China in just over a week.
I bought it because I like the idea of a player with no moving parts, no discs to get scratched, etc... but also because of its diy tweakability, not least in the form of I2S outputs available on the circuit board.
I got it up and running in a matter of minutes. An 8GB SD card (the maximum it will take) will store around 12 uncompressed CDs in WAV format. Amazon seems to be as cheap as anywhere for the cards at around £10 each.
My initial impressions of the sound, using SPDIF connection, are very favourable. It's at least as good as my "Shigaclone" transport, which itself has led to some people selling on their four-figure transports. I think it may even have the edge on musicality and feel-good listenability. :smoking: It comes with a basic 'wall wart' power supply, and a better psu certainly helps.
I will report again when I get round to looking inside and tinkering.