Music loaded … finally!
Putting 450 GB of music on the internal storage took 6 hours from macOS (which requires the use either “Android File Transfer” or “Commander One PRO”, due to the A&K units only allowing file access via “MTP” - the “Media Transfer Protocol” … a blasphemous Microsoft abortion that needs to be killed with fire).
Inserting the card I was using in my SP1000M (without problems), resulted in media-scanning/indexing taking forever, destabilized the UX of the player and eventually it became sluggish to the point of being unusable. Attempting to play music at this point resulted in a sharp, bright, sour sounding mess.
Reformatting that 1 TB card IN the SP2000, and re-transferring my “travel” library to it (a further 850 GB or so), took another ~12 hours (I did it via MTP to be safe, but it’d probably be fine via a card-reader … which isn’t an option for internal storage but works fine for microSDXC cars), but now everything is working properly!
Note: While it doesn’t seem to bother the SP1000M, a particular file (“C*cks*cker.flac” from the Atomic Blonde soundtrack - YES that’s the exact filename, asterisks and all) has wildcards (asterisks) in the filename and I suspect that was the cause of the issues above, as I wound up renaming it so that it would transfer AT ALL.
So, right now, everything is all re-loaded. Media scanning took a couple of minutes (usefully faster than the SP1000M). The unit is running super-smoothly with a very fluid UX, and now I can sit down to listen to the thing properly …
The first few minutes of which are anything but sour or sharp! Normally I start off DAP listening with IEMs, but one of the things I was interested in with the SP2000 was the more capable amplifier, so I’m starting off with the Vérité … and at this point the best hint I can give you is … “see you in a few hours” …