Apple made it so that you need a Lightning cable with a special MFi chip to enable the iPhone to supply power and talk to USB accessories.View attachment 177572Lightning to USB-C cable is included… but why do they have this note on the tech. Spec?
All right, that’s better! But still, $159 launch price ($199 regular) is pretty steep for what you get IMO. It looks like like Khadas is moving away from engineering excellence (KTB) to become more marketing-driven (Tea). But let see how Tea actually performs & measuresApple made it so that you need a Lightning cable with a special MFi chip to enable the iPhone to supply power and talk to USB accessories.
The note is there to clarify that customers cannot just use the normal Lightning to Type-C cable that came with their iPhones for the Tea.
it's honestly such a shame that it's doesn't have PEQ support.
Hi res may or may not be bs, but bit perfect is a perfectly sensible design goal. And while you might not find the product useful there are lots of others who will. That's called demand, it's a market, that's why companies exist.It’s sad that companies haven’t decided to make useful products, and instead keep churning out stuff with irrelevant “hi-rez” “bit perfect” bullshit.
This with iOS or better still webUI controlled PEQ, crossfeed, and loudness compensation would be a market disrupter. As is I struggle to see the point. Maybe if they or someone can release an iOS software with global PEQ, crossfeed, and ideally loudness it would have a point.
My hope is demand for function-failure products wanes and consumers learn to expect useful functionality as a baseline.And while you might not find the product useful there are lots of others who will. That's called demand, it's a market, that's why companies exist.
It’s sad that companies haven’t decided to make useful products, and instead keep churning out stuff with irrelevant “hi-rez” “bit perfect” bullshit.
This with iOS or better still webUI controlled PEQ, crossfeed, and loudness compensation would be a market disrupter. As is I struggle to see the point. Maybe if they or someone can release an iOS software with global PEQ, crossfeed, and ideally loudness it would have a point.
What does this even mean, and why would it apply to the Khadas amp? Making up pejorative sounding buzzwords does not indicate insight, nor does it constitute valid criticism. The Khadas product clearly isn't for you, but that doesn't make it a failure and it doesn't mean there is anything wrong with it. To me just the form factor and method of attaching to a phone looks like an excellent idea. Rubber bands be damned! It offers bit-perfect playback. Good! It offers Hi-Rez. Well, maybe they want to actually sell a few of these units to people who bought or stream Hi-Rez and believe it offers them something? Because if they don't offer Hi-Rez playback in today's market then their sales are going to be somewhere between zero and next to nothing. They're not evangelists, they're an enterprise offering really well engineered products and trying to make a living.function-failure products
Before Tyll founded HeadRoom nobody had heard of headphone amps either. It’s time to move on from products even less capable than HeadRoom’s original lineup.You'd be disrupting a miniscule market though. Even within the niche audiophile hobby, the amount of people that use those features on their headphones is tiny (I'm not saying they aren't useful or good).
It means that full range filterless speakers all suck, though at least the on-ear variant is spared the bass and directivity problems that the room sized variants cannot overcome and EQ can resolve the biggest issues as long as the drive units have enough headroom. Any integrated product that does not include the tools to remediate such inherent problems fails at its core function of improving fidelity. Thus, a function-failure product.What does this even mean, and why would it apply to the Khadas amp?
Maybe, I think it would be difficult for a relatively small company like Khadas to have much of an impact on this, you need some of the bigger players to get involved to show/convince the majority it is something they want. I think the current offering probably has more desirable aspects to the majority (rightly or wrongly) than those you suggested. Of course ideally who says they need to be mutually exclusive! I feel like we are perhaps looking at different things though and you are talking on a more grand general scale.Before Tyll founded HeadRoom nobody had heard of headphone amps either. It’s time to move on from products even less capable than HeadRoom’s original lineup.
I'm sure the NX7 is far better as purely an amp (it's certainly far more powerful), but that is only an amplifier. The Khadas is a DAC and Amp, with the addition of bluetooth. I don't know that they are directly comparable.For that price I’d rather get a NX7, connect it via a lightning 3,5mm dongle and glue a MagSafe magnet to the topping and I basically have the same thing.
did you mean the NX4?For that price I’d rather get a NX7, connect it via a lightning 3,5mm dongle and glue a MagSafe magnet to the topping and I basically have the same thing.
You'd be disrupting a miniscule market though. Even within the niche audiophile hobby, the amount of people that use those features on their headphones is tiny (I'm not saying they aren't useful or good).
Why do you assume it is not just a just upgraded "Tone board" + Amp inside a slim cover with a mic?All right, that’s better! But still, $159 launch price ($199 regular) is pretty steep for what you get IMO. It looks like like Khadas is moving away from engineering excellence (KTB) to become more marketing-driven (Tea). But let see how Tea actually performs & measures
you can send any voltage through unbalanced, and it is unrealistic you get much noise into your headphones through 3-4 feet of cable....Holy shit, a Magsafe DAC by Khadas. Take my money.
Edit: no balanced out means no thanks
in my case my powered monitors only have balanced input, so this is also a no go for me, yes you can send any voltage through unbalanced but its much easier to get upto 4V with balanced aswell for power hungry headphonesyou can send any voltage through unbalanced, and it is unrealistic you get much noise into your headphones through 3-4 feet of cable....