Pioneer outs portable HD audio player

There’s a resurgence of HD audio players and Pioneer’s introducing its own take on the trend with the XDP-100R. Made with aluminum, it houses two circuit boards. According to Pioneer, one of them is for the operating system and another for audio components to help “eliminate the effects of digital noise.” It supports lossless FLAC, MQA, ALAC, and DSD audio up to 11.2MHz.

This Android-powered player comes with a 4.7-inch 720p display, 32GB of internal storage that you can increase up to 256GB via two microSD slots that each support up to 128GB. It’s going on sale in Japan later this month for around US$700. There’s no word yet on a Western release at the moment though. But it does seem to be on the affordable side, especially since Sony’s NW-ZX2 HD audio player costs $1,200.

Source: Wall Street Journal | Via: Gizmodo