I read somewhere the trick is to paste the stickers in the same orientation so that the electrons travel the same path. Don't know it's true or not, have yet to try it.

​Horrible. Spend so much money and cant get a battery replacement service.  My set is more than 1 year old and the battery cant even go pass 4 hours of normal flac listening on balanced output. Zero sustainability design and support.Unless they can provide the battery replacement service, this...

where to purchase the battery?

EQ off and software version same for both sets should be fair to do a comparison., When u said the old AK380 was tune to suit iem, did u mean the EQ? cant see any other way to tune AK380 except EQ. Unless they use different brand components in the AK380 in different batches there might be...

​why is it black sound better than the normal AK380?

Rumors......   Ak will be launching new series of products next year at CES. Feeling exited, another 3 more months, new toys will be available.   Anyone got news?

Dear D.   Thanks for your response and clarification of your rationale of using a molded plug in your Balanced version.   Firstly, no DIY topic is mentioned in my posts, don't get me wrong, your points is good to direct to the consumers.   Secondly, you can called it a complaint or...

300 upgrade to K10 = future cable upgrade unlimited 300 upgrade to balanced truth = Zero future cable upgrade. ( ....Ouch) 400 upgrade to ref 1 = Ok now I have a ticket to heavenly sound with uber cable 

K10 Universal 1599 ref 1 1698 Dita black non balanced 999 Dita black Balanced 1300 Dita Gold edition 1450

Oh man...we can do this forever.   Sounds good doesn't mean excellent above all. I already stated and stand firm in what I believe that its a cheap L shape OM plug for the balanced mode to be used in AK balanced device. Nothing special; no rocket science research and development has been done...

dude...you are going personal on this man...its a discussion forum, free expression of views..Please respect me and the forum,   hope you enjoy your Dita.

Shouldnt the portable balanced kit credit goes to AK?

Extra soldering on an existing ground wire to a cheap plug doesn't appeal to me to pay $300 more. I close my case. I myself audited the balanced Dita truth and yes the sound does make the AK240 sounds good. But then again I rather pay for something equivalent on value for money like the K10 or...

Theres no change in the number of wires in the cable...still 4 wires.. just at the end of the cable the wires are soldered individually on the trrs plug. 

Your justification for them on the 30%, i.e. 300 dollars premium for an additional short adaptor made with an unknown cable is pretty amazing.   Hope you enjoy the premium balanced Dita.