v1.2.05, v1.2.05_G Beta version for Z9X 8K/Z30 PRO/Z3000 PRO/UHD8000

I'll buy myself a cup with the inscription: "I told you so!"

 

Well, first I've heard of it!! It's not even clear what the X9 is?

Looks a bit like a Heathkit (for those of a certain age...).

Not a clue how this piece of the jigsaw fits in..

 

So if by chance your copy is the same as the one I just got then it doesn't open with a Dune either which leads me to believe it's possibly of questionable origin...

I'll try a couple of others on that list...

 

Yeah, but they will focus in what's newer and selling better: audio.

Obviously this is a product for huge Chinese and Indian markets.

 

It's a DAC & AMP.

Seems odd that in one market segment it may compete with Eversolo.

 

IMO they are entirely in a different level.

 

Yeah, does look like a serious bit of kit looking at the specs.

Anyways, back to Zidoo Land.

 

This makes sense and explains why the developers have not solved the stuttering problem for almost 2 months, apart from many others. The developers were pulled away from Zidoo to develop this weird retro-looking thing.

 

Initial thinking is who is this going to appeal to? It's a Headphone Amp & DAC and the DAC is nothing better that the ones in my UHD8000 and DAC-Z8. I have a perfectly good Headphone amp but I seldom use it. Nothing special @Oldpainless imho but have merely looked briefly at the X9's specs - I await to be enlightened by you maybe

 

Not sure but I bet they'll have beards and knitted tanktops

 

Yeah, fair point - I only took a cursory glance...I guess the new (ish) AKM chip caught my eye. Happy with Topping, so I'm good.

 

And sandals with socks....

 

Nowt wrong with that!

 

Well to put your curiosity to bed, I have neither

 

Although I will be wearing sandals without socks in Kassiopi soon

 

and Maam Buns

 

Ok - looked into this a bit and it's not a problem with Paramount discs per se, it's possibly a problem with certain Paramount discs (when I say possibly, I only say that because I don't know if this is restricted to Paramount, but I suspect so).

As I said, I have a few here - off the top of my head, the first two Quiet Place movies as examples, and they place perfectly. However, I just got a copy of Event Horizon and that plays the Paramount vanity card fine but doesn't get to the language selection - it just shows a continual blue screen (which is the m2ts that sits behind the language graphic).

I know I said months ago I'm not getting involved in BD playback, but I'm curious on this because it's a complete failure - so if I replace the main m2ts with a small dummy m2ts file I can send this to the devs to look at... it'll just be a mishandled mpls file.

It plays ok on a Dune but there are a couple of glitches as it starts so definitely something awry with this one.