Hi,
I am looking for a suitable wav player to steam out digital signals. I am presently using a media player (ACRyan) but it has its bugs, like you can't skip forward or back or use numeric keypad to choose your trac etc.
I am presently considering QLS hifi QA550. Which looks to be great. The drawback is it only fits one SD card. Little bit challenging if you are trying to use it as a juke box. Allowing USB usage would also be a boon.
I considered the Aune but it is a bit too expensive at $300 for my taste.
I wonder if there are other commercial players available that does this job?
Thanking all in advance.
Oon
I am looking for a suitable wav player to steam out digital signals. I am presently using a media player (ACRyan) but it has its bugs, like you can't skip forward or back or use numeric keypad to choose your trac etc.
I am presently considering QLS hifi QA550. Which looks to be great. The drawback is it only fits one SD card. Little bit challenging if you are trying to use it as a juke box. Allowing USB usage would also be a boon.
I considered the Aune but it is a bit too expensive at $300 for my taste.
I wonder if there are other commercial players available that does this job?
Thanking all in advance.
Oon
You've basically found what's out there, I'm pretty sure.
I've got a QLS 350 (has the DAC built in) and an Aune Mini Ape Player. Both sound great, but you're right, being limited to SD cards is a pain if you've got a lot of music. Interface leaves a lot to be desired on both, but they're workable. The Aune will shuffle play, which is nice.
Media players like the WD Mini or WDTV are workable, but you need a separate DAC, as the internal one is not very good, and of course, you need to hook it up to a monitor. Once you start adding it all up, the Aune seems like a pretty good deal. BTW, they're supposed to be coming out with another model soon that looks like it might have a better interface.
--Buckapound
I've got a QLS 350 (has the DAC built in) and an Aune Mini Ape Player. Both sound great, but you're right, being limited to SD cards is a pain if you've got a lot of music. Interface leaves a lot to be desired on both, but they're workable. The Aune will shuffle play, which is nice.
Media players like the WD Mini or WDTV are workable, but you need a separate DAC, as the internal one is not very good, and of course, you need to hook it up to a monitor. Once you start adding it all up, the Aune seems like a pretty good deal. BTW, they're supposed to be coming out with another model soon that looks like it might have a better interface.
--Buckapound
Thanks for the suggestion, seems a bit pricey for what I want it for (relatively compared to the QLS). Could buy a lot of SD card for the same price. Besides, it has a volume control, which means it is doing something to the signal, which I rather not have...
Oon
What about the Velleman Mp3 player. Takes a SD and has a screen showing info. Or you could take a different route and search ebay for a nice used touch screen MP3 that you could take apart or whatever and mount into whatever you have? One of the Creative X-fi's or a some of the Philips ones as the screen stays horizontal.
I see a "New in Published" Aune Big Ape Player on the company website, but the "information link" goes nowhere. There is a picture and the mention of an OLED screen;
Audio_Speaker_AMP_HomeAudio_DAC_HeadPhone AMP_www.auneaudio.com
Some unofficial specs on the Big Ape pasted from another forum report;
Specification :
1. Support 192K /24bit
2. support APE ( C1000,C2000 ,C3000 ) , FlAC ( level 0-lecel 6) , TTA , WAV , MP3 , CUE
3. high quality digital record
4. support WIFI and website , it can software upgrade
5. can support moving IDE, USB ,SD card port
6. can change from different HDD, change from different format
Specification :
1. Support 192K /24bit
2. support APE ( C1000,C2000 ,C3000 ) , FlAC ( level 0-lecel 6) , TTA , WAV , MP3 , CUE
3. high quality digital record
4. support WIFI and website , it can software upgrade
5. can support moving IDE, USB ,SD card port
6. can change from different HDD, change from different format
This is the one I was talking about (scroll down to the new Mini Ape):
Rock Grotto Audio Forum - For Headphones - Headphone Amps - Amplifiers - X-Can V2 - Musical Fidelity - headphone Discussion - Amplifier Discussion - DIY - Amplifier Kits - Projects - SCHA - Sennheiser - Beyer - Grado - Audio Technica - Headphone amp
Very nice styling. No real info about the unit there, however.
Rock Grotto Audio Forum - For Headphones - Headphone Amps - Amplifiers - X-Can V2 - Musical Fidelity - headphone Discussion - Amplifier Discussion - DIY - Amplifier Kits - Projects - SCHA - Sennheiser - Beyer - Grado - Audio Technica - Headphone amp
Very nice styling. No real info about the unit there, however.
Well, if you want to play off a hard drive, you're going to have to pay more. Aune will handle different file types.QLS only will play WAVs.
It does come with a remote--in fact it will only play using the remote (unless you only want to play one song at a time).
I think in a couple of years, there will be a lot more choices.
--Buckapound
It does come with a remote--in fact it will only play using the remote (unless you only want to play one song at a time).
I think in a couple of years, there will be a lot more choices.
--Buckapound
Thanks for the heads up.
I am presently playing off thumbdrives. I just feel that the data will be a bit better, with less chances of bad sectors etc since it has no moving parts.. a 32GB thumb drive = 50 CDs, so the cost is not too bad....Oon
Hi Joe,
Thanks for the suggestion, but I am actually looking for a wav player.
MP3 is just too lossy (psyhcologically for me) even if I can't hear it
Oon
Hi,
Some "MP3" players will playback all sorts of files.
A lot of them include wav voice recorders.
My MP3 will playback WAV and FLAC lossless files.
(Though I use it with VBR WMA for most stuff.)
rgds, sreten.
Not all that much new in this area, surprisingly.
The Aune Mini-Ape turned out to be massively buggy, requiring periodic reinstalling of the firmware. The bigger Aune SI works pretty well, especially using SSDs through an eSata cable. It also plays SD cards. Sound is very nice.
There are a number of chunky portable players from companies like Little Dot, but most are quite expensive and are not demonstrably better than the QLS as far as I can tell, and there is very little information or reviews on them.
The other directions seems to be small, low-power computers like the Raspberry Pi or so called "plug" computers, but these seem to be evolving slowly into something like a WAV-playing appliance.
Given the sonic possibilities, I would think there would be more companies and DIY hobbyists jumping on this. Maybe all the action is with the computer guys, since it takes that to play files off a hard drive or SSD rather than just SD cards. I'm currently using my Oppo BDP-95 as a music server, but it's a little clunky in its file handling, especially with the time it takes to re-scan a terabyte of files every time I turn it on. Sounds great, though.
--Buckapound
The Aune Mini-Ape turned out to be massively buggy, requiring periodic reinstalling of the firmware. The bigger Aune SI works pretty well, especially using SSDs through an eSata cable. It also plays SD cards. Sound is very nice.
There are a number of chunky portable players from companies like Little Dot, but most are quite expensive and are not demonstrably better than the QLS as far as I can tell, and there is very little information or reviews on them.
The other directions seems to be small, low-power computers like the Raspberry Pi or so called "plug" computers, but these seem to be evolving slowly into something like a WAV-playing appliance.
Given the sonic possibilities, I would think there would be more companies and DIY hobbyists jumping on this. Maybe all the action is with the computer guys, since it takes that to play files off a hard drive or SSD rather than just SD cards. I'm currently using my Oppo BDP-95 as a music server, but it's a little clunky in its file handling, especially with the time it takes to re-scan a terabyte of files every time I turn it on. Sounds great, though.
--Buckapound
cocktailAudio
You can look into this. It has built in CD player that will rip your CD straight to the harddisk.
Will also display the songs etc on the small screen. Comes with a decent DAC and a built in amp. Have yet to try the amp though..
Oon
You can look into this. It has built in CD player that will rip your CD straight to the harddisk.
Will also display the songs etc on the small screen. Comes with a decent DAC and a built in amp. Have yet to try the amp though..
Oon
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