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new Android based player/streamer w/PEQ! Activo P1 -- Astell & Kern "designed" Activo Brand from S. Korea

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Just saw this today -- soon to be on Amazon for $440 -- ESS 9219 DACs and hopefully bypassed Android 48Khz resampling (?!?)
3.5mm + 4.4mm Bal outputs, Sample rate conversion feature (sure like to know how?), DSD over PCM function (prob part of the ESS 9219 filter functions)
20 hr battery life (prob based on single ended output), 64GB storage + SD card slot - can use as USB DAC too, and supposedly "bit-perfect" output - including AppleMusic (since it's an Android streamer) and I guess the same concerns about Android platform stability over time like the Eversolo and Fiio players... but PEQ is the big item for me...


 
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Just saw this today -- soon to be on Amazon for $440 -- ESS 9219 DACs and hopefully bypassed Android 48Khz resampling (?!?)
3.5mm + 4.4mm Bal outputs, Sample rate conversion feature (sure like to know how?), DSD over PCM function (prob part of the ESS 9219 filter functions)
20 hr battery life (prob based on single ended output), 64GB storage + SD card slot - can use as USB DAC too, and supposedly "bit-perfect" output - including AppleMusic (since it's an Android streamer) and I guess the same concerns about Android platform stability over time like the Eversolo and Fiio players... but PEQ is the big item for me...


Edit - NO PEQ

Just 20 band fixed freq EQ with limited gain settings and Q adjustments for the locked down frequencies - forget shelf and HPF/LPF functions - why is this so hard to do on a custom Android platform?
 
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