Onkyo DP-X1 Digital Audio Player

If the sound output at the 2.5 jack worked perfectly, this would be a five-star review. This is the best portable sound unit I've owned and it holds more than 400 GB of music. It worked great on March 12, when I bought it and now the balanced sound portal is squishy and music cuts out at the slightest movement. I see in other reviews the seller says this has been fixed. Not in my case. What can I do? Also, like a fool, I recently threw out the original packaging, thinking I had found my portable player nirvana. Can I return it without it? Will the company fix it? I was loving it for six months, but losing sound is really irksome. Anyone have suggestions? I see others have had the same problem. Thanks....update: Jan 13, 2018. I should have returned this before 30 days to have it fixed...but I was busy and thought it might get better. It's only gotten worse. I got an answer from the seller, telling me to send it to Onkyo for a repair. Thoughts?UPDATE: OK. So, I promised I would update if they fixed it. It was a hassle, but I have to say the people at JMade did their best. I sent it first to a US Onkyo authorized repair place. They refused to service it. $30 in shipping out. Then, JMADE said they would take care of it, so I shipped it to them in Japan. They sent it to Onkyo and Voila, it works as good as new. Pshew.Here's a funny aside, in case anyone else has this problem. When I got it back, it was set to Japanese...and it was set so that the screen needed two fingers to scroll. So, not reading Japanese, I kind of figured my way around, but couldn't get it to scroll to English. It would scroll as far down as an Indonesian dialect that starts with a B. Well, after hours of my own incompetence, and thinking I had to send it back again, I finally figured out i needed to scroll it with two fingers...and finally got to English and fixed the touch screen by pressing magnify.Sad to admit, this took about four hours to figure.But..now, I can say this unit is a gem, despite the bad workmanship on the 2.5 jack. It has so many variables but the sound is really great in balanced or regular. I use it now mostly with a Questyle 400i DAC and Amp, which is really deep and rich. Without that amp, it's still a great sound, but lighter and with a clean soundstage. With it, it's rich and deep. I use it with Mr Speakers Ether Flow C headphones, which it drives fine. Also with Westone 4 IEMs.In my frustration, I almost gave up and bought a H&K KANN because of its storage capacity...but I am now very happy with my Onkyo. And J Made was very good to deal with, even if it took some time and shipping money. I still paid half what the KANN would have cost. I'm using two 200 GB sd cards, but may switch to 256. I have a lot of music and a lot in hi def.Pluses:Largest storage for the priceGreat variables: you can buy Onkyo music directly with it. You can use it on wifi or bluetooth; As a portable, it really does a lot of jobs. Or use it for storage through another amp, if you want.Nice screen with album cover art.Balanced or regular outputs. Balanced is simply wonderfulMINUSESThe complaints about the workmanship are true. My 2.5 output was bad from the minute I got it. It cut out, but I lived with it, until it completely fell into the unit. Luckily, Onkyo fixed it promptly when I got it to Japan. I have a Sony walkman for backup, so I didn't lose music, but it's pretty frustrating to go through that.Battery life isn't great. I'm getting like six hours, even with everything shut off.It's pretty complicated and has a big learning curve. Sure, you can just do the basics and it's as simple as an iPod, but once you want to get deeper into it, it takes some time. The online manual has helped a lot.So, now that it's fixed, I up my rating from a zero to a 5. I'm happy with it. At some point I may go for something that has even more storage, but this will work until the units that hold terrabytes come out.

I heard about these high end "Digital Audio Players" and I wanted to see if they live up to the hype. After quite a bit of research, I decided that getting this player used for around $300 would be a good price point to dip my toes.I have now owned this player for a few years and the results have been pretty great over all.Pros: Dual SD card slots - this led me to fill them with 2x256gb cardscontrols - It's nice to not have to look at the device to do most things.Sound quality - I play everything from flac to mp3's and even DSD and high quality files. You'd be surprised how good some older albums can sound. I didn't realize that Disturbed was done so well.Balanced 2.5mm connection - This was new to me but I gave it a try and it was nice.Bluetooth - If you're buying this player to play audio over Bluetooth, don't... Use your phone. I do like being able to transfer music files in a pinch though.Android - Allows the use of many Android apps. We sometimes use Spotify.Bad: Glitches - This happened only a hand full of times (Maybe 15% of total play time). This might be due to the ancient version of Android. The player would flat out stop outputting audio or behaving strange. This has led me to purchase a Fiio M11 Plus.Lack of cases - if they exist, I had trouble locating them so I had to treat it very nicely.Battery life - Seems short but easily fixable with an external USB BatteryMicrousb - In a world of type c, the time has comeOver all, if you have a really nice set of headphones laying around, and you feel like something is missing, you are right. I had this paired with a pair of SENNHEISER HD 559's and even when the wife and I listened through a splitter, this device was powerful enough to power them. Just don't expect any updates from Onkyo. Also, this player led to me purchasing LG phones with a nice DAC in them. spending money leads to spending more money.

Ho comprato questo lettore usato per l'ottimo prezzo proposto. Dopo più di tre mesi posso dire di aver fatto un ottimo affare. il DAP è perfetto, senza un graffio o difetti e suona favolosamente con i file flac o dts

I think it's a good music player. My only problem is with the implementation of Android, it needs some work. Battery life not the best either. The delivery was very fast though.

Sound is excellent. The Onkyo Music Player software is total crap, however. If it had the ability to display "Album Artist" separately from "Track Artist", and actually managed to play without stopping and restarting at the beginning of the playlist all the time, it would be much better.

Bin nicht so der Freund von kantigen Ecken, fasst sich auf Dauer nicht gut an. Etwas veraltetes aber vereinfachtes Android System. Die Musiksoftware ist top. Mir fehlt aber ein separater Regler für die Basseinstellung, wie beim S1(hat mir gut gefallen). So könnte man den Bass mal schnell etwas nachregeln ohne gleich den ganzen Equalizer zu verstellen. Das wäre für mich eine sehr wichtige Funktion, weil ich auch oft die Kopfhörer wechsele. Der Klang lässt keine Wünsche offen. Keine Probleme bei der W-Lan Verbindung und bei der Bluetooth Verbindung, was beim DP-S1 überhaupt nicht funktioniert hat. (der ging wieder zurück)

Looked around at many options for a Hi-Res player and settled on this for all the features it has including app store.Initial setup was fine and got the software working to transfer music.Sound was good quality - but does not go very loud.However problems started after I did the firmware update.At that point I could not longer transfer music.Contacted the manfacturer who advised returning the unit.I think it is a good player - but this has put me off a little and am tempted by the Astell kern instead .