Teclast/S:Flo2 RMAA measurements - part 1

[shigzeo]

Not a lot of iDevicers will have heard of the S:Flo or Teclast T51, but you should. It is a behemoth portable media player that looks like the iPod touch, but has few other similarities. Firstly, it uses two DAC chips to decode audio signals. I cannot comment on the direct effect of them as it would be silly to attribute the very good driving capability to something that doesn't have a single DAC analogue. The iBasso D4 portable headphone DAC/amp uses the same DAC chips but doesn't drive low Ω earphones as well.

The T51/S:Flo2 is good - to a point. It has a great line out (maybe even better than the iDevice - at least in certain areas), a very good headphone output, and very low levels of hiss. However, it is hamstrung by horrid navigation, a useless touchscreen, poor format support, and no gapless playback. There are faint artefacts in the signal at all volume levels, but are almost unnoticeable. When the screen is on, violent clicking invades the output signal - horrible. But, when the screen is off, the sound is quite good. I can't say I enjoy it 100%.

It drives earphones very well - very low distortion, very clean signal and has a smooth midsection. But, it just isn't that great till the LO is engaged. It bests my fun Sansa Fuze simply because it has a smoother, wider stereo image, but other than driving certain earphones better than the iPod touch, the actual sound signature isn't an improvement.

If all you do is use LO and an amp, I recommend this player 100%. Otherwise, it is good, but not great, especially as the HPO has a built-in low pass filter which slightly dulls or 'smooths' the signal. Here are RMAA results.

Firstly: Line out tests to the iBasso T3D, a very capable, very tiny headphone amplifier.

Frequency Response:

Signal to Noise ratio:

Total Harmonic Distortion: not always a bad thing

Dynamic Range:

Intermodulation Distortion: the bad one!

[shigzeo]

And Crosstalk:


Here are the rundowns for the iPod touch LO to T3D:


And the Teclast T51 LO to T3D:

[hkbaby]

I don't think so with above of T51 rmaa test ,

what sound card are you using ? what cable are u using ?

according to my Test . with creative X-fi sound card , the T51 Lineout should be


Feq +0.002, -0.12
NOise level -94.5
Dynamk 92.6
THD 0.0014
IMD 0.0056
stereo crosstalk -94.6
IMD 0.0060

it's better than my Sound card -v- ...

[shigzeo]

As I said, the T51 is going through the iBasso T3D, not naked to the line int of my sound card. My sound card is fine, but I am going out of an amplifier as the LO overloads the inputs on my RCA inputs. I'll have to get XLR made up to do a LO-only test.

[shigzeo]

Here are the loaded RMAA tests:

[shigzeo]

And here is Frequency Response