[crabdog]

  Sounds like a neat low-price option on the DAP market. They could have saved the space and cost for the bluetooth hardware, though. DAPs are a niche-product for cable lovers.

I don't want Bluetooth either but it's becoming the norm nowadays and a DAP might lose market share if the feature was missing.
 

  they should've gone for balanced output :/ 
 
8gb version better be lot of cheaper than x5iii.

Is there any confirmation about lack of balanced out?

 

[crabdog]

double post

 

[tarhana]

  I don't want Bluetooth either but it's becoming the norm nowadays and a DAP might lose market share if the feature was missing.
 
Is there any confirmation about lack of balanced out?

no but if there was one i think they would've promote it? 

 

[twister6]

Dimensions are even smaller than X5iii, and dual Android and Pure Music mode are indicators of Hiby sw/fw which is pretty mature after all the FiiO/Cayin trials'n'errors.  Not quite sure about the reasoning behind 8GB (aluminum case) vs 64GB (stainless steel), unless there is a noticeable price difference, and as someone pointed out the aluminum version is cheaper than x5iii.  I hope AP200SS is priced closer to $400.  Don't quote me on this, but I could have swear reading somewhere about the rice of $350, and maybe that was in reference to aluminum 8GB version.  But than, I don't recall exactly where I read it.
 
Very intrigued!

 

[BartSimpson1976]

So is there a realistic possibility that this DAP materializes or will end like the announcement for the AP300 which has made a lot people loose trust in HiDizs announcements?

 

[crabdog]

  So is there a realistic possibility that this DAP materializes or will end like the announcement for the AP300 which has made a lot people loose trust in HiDizs announcements?

Demo units supposedly arriving mid April so I'm sure it's real.

 

[BartSimpson1976]

I do not believe a single word from HiDizs until the AP200 is available in stores!
 
But what they show of it seems tempting. But so was it for the AP300 announcement where
they never admitted that the project is dead but just kept silent. 

 

[crabdog]

  I do not believe a single word from HiDizs until the AP200 is available in stores!
 
But what they show of it seems tempting. But so was it for the AP300 announcement where
they never admitted that the project is dead but just kept silent. 

Perhaps the AP300 was postponed or scrapped due to the release of a competitors DAP that made it unviable in the market. That's just speculation on my part of course.

 

[dontcallmejan]

According to Penonaudio.

 

[Hidizs Hk]

  Demo units supposedly arriving mid April so I'm sure it's real.

The newest spec of AP200.

 

[crabdog]

 
The newest spec of AP200.

This is going to be awesome. 64GB onboard storage is a nice addition too.

 

[jmills8]

This is going to be awesome. 64GB onboard storage is a nice addition too.

64 gigs with two SD Slots will be so 2017.

 

[Hidizs Hk]

  This is going to be awesome. 64GB onboard storage is a nice addition too.

It will also have a unique, pretty cool CNC stainless steel body shell.
Solid, cold, pure starght line!

 

[BartSimpson1976]

if it really is coming....

 

[crabdog]

  It will also have a unique, pretty cool CNC stainless steel body shell.
Solid, cold, pure starght line!

Hmm stainless steel. I want that cold steel in my hand now.