mp3 players...where have they gone

Blow your wad on an Astell & Kern AK240 - $2,499

I'd love to put my $30 clip+ w/ $10 sd card against that in a blind listening test. Fools & money yo.

  On 6/19/2014 at 4:52 PM, Bob Dobalina said:

I'd love to put my $30 clip+ w/ $10 sd card against that in a blind listening test. Fools & money yo.

I love my Clip and am on my second one but that 'cricket chirping' noise they make would be a giveaway to anyone who's owned one.

Ipod nano for gardening, gym, and baking. Usually get immersed in my work and forget it's on due to it being so small & weightless.

When you first turn it on or during actual playback? I don't doubt what yours saying but I've never had that problem myself. The original firmware was a little buggy for me (just breathing on it wrong would cause it to 'refresh' the media library), but everything's been great since rockboxing it.

edit: @li-lo re: clip

I just retired my iPod Classic in favour of my iPhone and iTunes Match, I didn't want to carry around 2 devices. It's a compromise though, I don't like how Apple have fucked up the clean, simple navigation, now you tap on an artist and you get a list of every track on an album under the title which makes it a pain to scroll down. It also lists albums by release date (newest first) as opposed to the iPod which did it alphabetical. Lots of other niggles too, like since the iOS 7.1 update tracks no longer pre-cache, so there's a small gap between tracks, they better fix that in 8

  On 6/19/2014 at 5:16 PM, manmower said:

 

  On 6/19/2014 at 4:52 PM, Bob Dobalina said:

I'd love to put my $30 clip+ w/ $10 sd card against that in a blind listening test. Fools & money yo.

I love my Clip and am on my second one but that 'cricket chirping' noise they make would be a giveaway to anyone who's owned one.

 

I have had two clips and I have no idea what you mean by that!

If it's the sound I'm thinking of, my Zen Stone used to do the same thing. I think the processor or something sometimes struggled to buffer the samples in time leading to the occasional digital wobble.

my iPhone my rules

  On 6/19/2014 at 6:02 PM, Obel said:

 

  On 6/19/2014 at 5:16 PM, manmower said:

 

  On 6/19/2014 at 4:52 PM, Bob Dobalina said:

I'd love to put my $30 clip+ w/ $10 sd card against that in a blind listening test. Fools & money yo.

I love my Clip and am on my second one but that 'cricket chirping' noise they make would be a giveaway to anyone who's owned one.

 

I have had two clips and I have no idea what you mean by that!

 

My best guess is it's a kind of buffering noise like mcbpete said. It's very distinctive and audible on quieter sections but it's not always there and I'm not exactly sure how to reproduce it. Never investigated because it doesn't bother me, I'm not even sure that it's specific to certain files. Maybe big (lossless) files or large album art in the tags or something would provoke it. I mostly notice it when I'm out running and have it playing for longer periods of time. Maybe the thing just gets tired.

My ipod classic 120gig is still alive and kicking!

Got the 80gb Classic here and it's been good as gold for some time.

My 4th generation Ipod nano still works as if brand new after 6 years. 8GB is not enough for me at this point, though...

I'm still using this old baby from 2006. I like it a lot, it's got a no shit user interface and the software is hassle free..but it's an HDD so it's quite heavy. I even sent it back to the service centre a few years ago at great expense to put a new battery in it.

I have been tempted by the new mp3 players but i'm disinterested in all the extra shit that they're capable of, it's primarily for music. Plus I cannot be arsed transferring my music library onto a new system, it's time consuming as shit and i don't have most of it backed up on the computer anyway, so this machine will have to last me till death.

  On 6/20/2014 at 9:24 PM, Schlitze said:

I'm still using this old baby from 2006. I like it a lot, it's got a no shit user interface and the software is hassle free..but it's an HDD so it's quite heavy. I even sent it back to the service centre a few years ago at great expense to put a new battery in it.

I have been tempted by the new mp3 players but i'm disinterested in all the extra shit that they're capable of, it's primarily for music. Plus I cannot be arsed transferring my music library onto a new system, it's time consuming as shit and i don't have most of it backed up on the computer anyway, so this machine will have to last me till death.

Yeahhh I had that thing. Sacked it off though because the battery went to shit and my cable broke, which was annoying as it's a propriety Sony cable and it was a fucker getting a new one. Sony said they won't provide a replacement and if I want a new USB cable I should buy a new MP3 player. That was pretty much decided when Sony can fuck themselves.

If you need a new MP3 that's simply an MP3 player mate, look into the Sansa Clip. Shit hot.

I still have a minidisc and want to use it but forgot how. :(

I've got a load of blank minidiscs still in the packaging but no player. I would be happy to start using one again if one suddenly turned up.

Give it 2-3 years, minidiscs will be the new audio cassette

  On 6/19/2014 at 7:40 AM, Nebraska said:

 

  On 3/10/2014 at 9:31 PM, Nebraska said:

 

  On 3/10/2014 at 6:49 PM, Rubin Farr said:

Neil Young branded Ponomusic hi definition audio players.

 

http://www.computeraudiophile.com/f8-general-forum/neil-young-announces-launch-ponomusic-19703/

 

"to hear music the way its creators intended, with the emotion, detail, and power intact." ponomusic

 

"beats would allow people to "hear what the artists hear, and listen to the music the way they should: the way I do." beats headphones

 

what's next? they'll begin selling us producer ears that we can graft ontop of our own ears so we can have "an ear like your favorite producer. hear exactly what they hear"

btw: ponomusic sounds too much like pornomusic. personally, i like the sound of mp3 more so pono loses just on cool sounding basis

 

 

i'm reading comments from the suckers that gave neil young money for this toberlone bar. turns out around may, pono music was supposed to go online to customers who help fund the kickstarter. currently (june 18th) no live pono music.

 

everyone else has been buying $1,000 plus headphones and high recorded players and amps in anticipation of the high quality pono

 

http://appleinsider.com/articles/15/02/02/neil-youngs-400-pono-hi-def-music-player-loses-to-apples-iphone-in-blind-audio-test

http://youtu.be/6VQUFCCcQ4A

My word - that looks as terrible as the portable mp4 media players I once bought for a couple of my nieces. Thankfully they only cost 25 quid ...

Just had the battery charge become unusably short on my second Sansa Clip+ and noticed there's a 'Clip Sport' now with different internals at roughly the same price the Clip+ used to be, I'll be giving that one a shot.

still use this ipod 80gb and it works like a charm

Cheap sony mp3 walkmans. Sound better than iPods (using the headphone jack that is), no colouring of sound, just mp3s through my oversized headphones. True, they don't last long--I suspect the gold plating on my headphones kills the jack inside the mp3 player--but I can't see myself changing soon. Unless a cheap variant appears that does flac too.

I'm known around town as 'that tall gimp with the large headphones'.

edit: I seem to end up as the first post on a new page in every thread I post in

I recently bought a used 160gig iPod classic. It holds a lot of music, and I like the interface. Wish it was more customizable, but I never leave the "Artists" page anyways. A very, very solid piece of technology.

  On 2/3/2015 at 1:20 AM, Bechuga said:

 

Cheap sony mp3 walkmans. Sound better than iPods (using the headphone jack that is)

Is there any measured evidence of this? I personally can't tell the difference between listening on my iphone/macbook internal audio/non-apple external audio device..