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10-07-2008, 09:13 PM
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But with WMA-lossless comes the added power needed to decode them.
Lol, I just can't win. It looks like my only hope is if the S9 has a warm, natural sound. 
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10-08-2008, 10:23 AM
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if i were you, change your earphones first. with the current earphones that you have, you wont notice any difference anyways with whatever good sounding portable player you have.
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10-09-2008, 02:40 AM
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I recommend samsung's YP-P2.
you konw, samsung's player has excellent sounds. (especially at YP-P2 !!)
if you need more information,, click this URL.
YP-P2 - MP3 digital audio SAMSUNG
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10-09-2008, 02:55 AM
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I'm really looking for a good video player as well. Basically, I want to listen to super orgasmic high quality music (*disclaimer* may be a little exaggerated, since I don't have super orgasmic cans or a super orgasmic amp to make the super orgasmic music sound as super orgasmic as it possibly can, but you get the idea), and watch movies on a rich, high-res screen.
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10-14-2008, 09:40 PM
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I don't know about the movie quality, but have you checked out the Clips big brother, the Fuze? You can buy the 8GB and add an 8GB card and have a 16GB player with great SQ that supports FLAC for under $150USD....
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10-15-2008, 04:07 AM
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yep.. the fuze would be your ticket. its got the same chip as the clip and plays great straight up, the EQ is a bit dodgy though and best kept on off. on the supplied phones, its no worries, but once you upgrade the quality becomes apparent.
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10-15-2008, 05:54 AM
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Comparing H320 to my Fuze, the bass on it underwhelmed me (neither as deep nor nearly as punchy), and the treble is a bit less crisp in my opinion. Unlike the H320 (and the Clix2? I haven't tried it) it has no bass/treble boost function, just an EQ which of course distorts if you push it beyond a few notches. The sound signature is pretty similar otherwise, so if you don't tend to push up bass you should be happy with it.
I do think the Fuze/Clip get a bit overrated on head-fi though, it sounds alright all around but I wouldn't really say it excels at anything.
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10-21-2008, 09:19 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by i_don't_know
I also noticed the Clix 2 plays WAV but not FLAC. What's the file size difference between the two?
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Last night I ripped a bunch of cds using EAC. The .wav rips (an accident, I meant to rip to FLAC) were about 650MB for a 60-65 minute CD. The ripping took about 6 minutes per cd on average. When I re-ripped the cd correctly to FLAC they were about 400MB. When I used Fubar2000 + LAME to convert FLAC to MP3 (took about 50 seconds) (v0, 245kbps variable), they were abotu 60MB.
So, for what I was doing, I was saving 92% of the hard drive space by going from .wav to .mp3, with a high quality mp3. To answer your question, it looks like .flac takes up about 40% less space than .wav.
I don't plan to play the FLAC files.... I will just leave them on my harddrive as my permanent compressed lossless files. In the future, if someone invents a compression algorithm that allows for higher quality sound that takes up only the space of 128 .mp3, I can then do another conversion of all the .flac files into the new format without having to re-rip all my cds.
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10-22-2008, 01:51 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by i_don't_know
I'm really looking for a good video player as well. Basically, I want to listen to super orgasmic high quality music (*disclaimer* may be a little exaggerated, since I don't have super orgasmic cans or a super orgasmic amp to make the super orgasmic music sound as super orgasmic as it possibly can, but you get the idea), and watch movies on a rich, high-res screen.
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I'm looking for something similar too. I seen a lot of recs for the samsung p2, clix 2, clip and sonys for SQ. The only other thing I would love to have is a nice quality screen to watch vids. I've got the D2 now (and have used cowon plyrs for as long as I can remember) and considering I like bass, I'll probably fall in love with one of the above. That S9 and 02 look nice. I see the spinn hasn't received great reviews. Still need to do my research.
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