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Received my zishan player today (VERY fast shipping for chinks) and did some very short A/B testing across from the Astell & Kern ak70. Testing was done using 3.5mm out and tin t2s, mostly 16/44.1 flac and one album at 320kbps mp3. We all know that obviously the ak70 has a more pleasing interface and UI, but this is only a sound comparison. I also had issues with getting music onto the zishan since I couldn't simply pop in my 256gb SD card and I'll need to look into what is required for that later. First impressions are that the ak70 is much more bass-heavy and the zishan more neutral, consistent throughout all songs. Second impression is that when listening to songs with quick notes, I can hear detail better on the zishan! Nice. Zishan also seems to win on soundstage/imaging, but I'm generally not a good judge of this and testing that using IEMs is probably harder. The only real victory for the ak70 is that it delivers a stronger punch with lower midrange, especially percussion.
cont. 2/2 And now to discuss the cons. It appears my device is up to date with the latest firmware (0.4) so the issues I talk about are probably still unresolved. The "floder" typo is annoying, but there are worse issues. Namely the fact that album art disappears if you ever adjust the volume. As neat as the active graphs are, I'm an album art person and this is unacceptable for me. I will also probably have to format my 256gb micro sd card in a certain way so that the player will be able to parse it without shutting itself down. I also got a random shutdown when seeking to the end of a song--it just refused to play and shut itself down, acting as if my 4gb sd card had ejected itself. It is also worth mentioning there is no gapless playback support. The gist is that if you can deal with the design idiosyncracies of the zishan player (and there are quite a few) the device delivers amazing sound performance that beats out players more than 3x its price range. Once most of these issues are sorted out with a fw update, I'm probably going to end up selling the ak70 since I basically only used it for working out.
