The Chinese are gaining on HiFi Rose

#142

Joyofmvid,

First, I haven’t heard the T8 so I can’t comment about sound so #1 is out for me.

2 and 5 however, I’ve looked at fairly carefully. I know that Zidoo has a dedicated team of engineers who monitor their blog for any software suggestions and problems. They jump on those immediately. Rose doesn’t.

3 and 4 relate to user friendly and efficient coding. Rose is good at putting out stable software. It doesn’t crash. On the other hand, the release schedule is twenty times slower than Eversolo’s. Also, Rose’s programming is done as a programmer would do if he were just assigned one screen and had no idea what the rest of the program was doing or how his screen related to the rest of the program. That makes the decision tree an illogical mess. Eversolo software is cleanly designed with a music oriented user in mind. It flows logically from the point of view of a user who wants the fewest keystrokes to get where he wants to go.

Eversolo’s software is not as graphically impressive as Hi Fi Rose’s which gets an “A” in my book for visual impression. Eversolo’s screens are functional “plain Jane” but Eversolo’s software has many more options and capabilities than HiFi Rose.

HiFi Rose’s database expertise is not good. Even after last year’s improvement, Eversolo’s software runs rings around Hi Fi Rose in that area. For some reason HiFi Rose can’t design consistent searching, organizing and displaying tools for all its various databases. They are all over the place. We’ve been waiting literally years for the ability to directly identify albums and music, search, organize and replace, etc. the database contents. We’re still waiting.

Eversolo puts an emphasis on a user’s ability to modify screens to suit his preferences. You know that Rose has been extremely inflexible in that area.

All of the above said, I love my Rose equipment (I have four) and wouldn’t trade any one of them for an Eversolo T8.

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#143

Don’t let me be misunderstood. I am simply stating that in my home, with the same setup, I hear better sound from T8-to-RD160-to-RA180 than from RS130-to-RD160-to-RA180.

Our preferences, interconnects, accessories, environments, room acoustics, etc. are all different. Keep your Rose equipment as long as you like. Good for you.

By the way, T8 has two other features I like a lot besides EQ and room correction :

The first is called “Screen.” It can generate a screen on the mobile app that looks exactly like the T8 device—what you see is what you get (WYSIWYG). I can perform ALL the functions on my iPad just as I would on the physical T8 screen. It’s simple and intuitive. On the contrary, many functions of the RS130 are only operable on the device.

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Second, when streaming Tidal music, I can switch between different resolutions on the fly.

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I only have Tidal. I don’t know if the T8 provides similar features to Qobuz and/or other streaming services or not.

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#144

Tom T.

Good points.

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#145

This “screen” functionality is a thing I really want to see in HiFi Rose. That would allow to run native Apple Music App, which is a BIG missing feature for me…

#146

@TomT

  1. Is “Screen” function, the placement of the device’s front panel on your tablet?

  2. Is the screen activated/deactivated by pressing the pencil icon (ie the 2d rightmost icon on the top Screen line)?

  3. When screen is deactivated, does the display go back to the last display?

  4. On the screen, can I press any of the icons shown on the screen?

  5. BTW, what is the four-dot icon function (ie, the icon on the right of the pencil icon)?

  6. You said you liked “EQ and room correction”. ← I’m puzzled as to why a few community members request this. I believe,

    • Room Correction is a preamp/prepro function (not a source device function); reason: Room Correction applies to all source devices in your system and to properly do Room Correction, the function needs to manage any upmixing, manage individual speaker volume, and manage the bass crossover for each speaker to subwoofers . ← My Anthem AVM90 has an exceptional Room Correction function (it can correct the room for two scenerios: e.g., with the door open or close; or with only one person in the room or a group of people in the room, etc…

    • EQ is typically a DAC function (e.g., HiFi Rose’s RD160 DAC); reason, the DAC manages the final digital-to-analog processing/conversion ← EQ shows the analog outcome sent to the speakers (this outcome is after all the digital processing is completed including any upsampling/bass crossovers/audio-filtering functions, etc)