I purchased a K1 Max directly from Creality in October 2024.

This was well after the K1 Max had recieved the K1C upgrades. People had been getting K1 Max units with the small X/Y pulleys and upgrade hot end for MONTHS.

I bought it directly from Creality expecting to get a current revision.

I received a rev1 unit. It had signs of use. I asked Creality to replace it with the current revision and they decline.

It never really printed right. Using their filament and their slicer about 40% of the prints would fail. They kept dragging me along for weeks. I assume this was to push me out of the return window.

They literally never one entertained my suggestion of returning.

Until I call my credit card company. VISA said to box it up, email them one last time demanding a return label for a full refund, and if they did not give me one, VISA would do a charge back.

Whilst boxing it up I noticed another shipping label from before the K1C was released.

So they had absolutely sold me a unit that was not brand new.

Now I have a Sovol SV08 and if I was looking for a new printer I would be looking at the Snapmaker U1

All two dongles I have used (Google, Apple) have a DAC.

I’m pretty sure the analog ones are the exception, not the rule.

I’ve honestly had a lot of luck booting a Windows SSD on different computers.

I’m not sure which specific issue you are referring too, but personally I had HW transcoding break with the new version and also direct play seem to also break with the newest Android TV version. Nothing with HDR would play at all, despite using an Nvidia Shield.

I rolled back both since I couldn’t find anyone with similar issues.

I flashed to mainline shortly after getting it. I didn’t have any issues with stock firmware, only swapped because if the cartographer.

If you don’t mind minor amounts of tinkering to get it good, it’s been great since switching to the Cartographer.

Terrible bed adhesive. Cleaned the bed multiple times. Tried with and without glue sticks. It had over 2mm of deviation.

Prints would always warp on the right side where the aux fan was blowing on them.

I had a K1 Max I got directly from Creality in October.

It would print ASA okay, but PETG and PLA failed like 75% of the time.

Switched to a Sovol SV08 with a cartographer and I can’t remember having a failed print since. I print almost exclusively in PETG now.