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Originally Posted by Dr. Drib
I bought an Astell&Kern AK100 II for a bit over $700 about 2 years. This is a high end FLAC player. I highly recommend it. I have it connected to my McIntosh MA-700 Integrated Amplifier and the sound is superb. (It only has one DAC, however.)
Here are some reviews from Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/Astell-Kern-A...kern+ak+100+ii
They also have a 380 model, but it's around $3,500, which is a couple of thousand beyond my price point for a portable player. |
If you're looking into these kinds of players, you could also look at the Fiio X5 Mark II. I have the Mark I, and it's a very good player with a very powerful headphone amp and great sound. The only caveat is that you need to arrange your music in folders. Its tag database is crap if you want to do antyhing else but shuffle by album or genre. Maybe they have improved this with the Mark II model. I don't know.
(Oh, and it doesn't support ReplayGain, so that's possibly a dealbreaker if you like to shuffle through different albums.)