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post #46 of 142
10/3/07 at 8:24am
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Originally Posted by threEchelon View Post
It confuses me that Bluetin's price for the HD30GB9 is so good but their price for the HD60GD9 is so poor.
Because it is a new model?
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post #47 of 142
10/5/07 at 10:10am
I ordered my HD60GD9 yesterday so I should have it in 7 days or so. When I get it I shall try and create a small review on it and include lots of pictures!!
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post #48 of 142
10/5/07 at 10:13am
Awesome! I cant wait to hear some reviews on this player... ive got a feeling its going to be my next DAP!
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post #49 of 142
10/9/07 at 1:42am
Just FYI. I am thinking buying this one for sure based on what has been said in Japan (reviews). I am currently using HD30GB9 with MOVE BTW.
Apparently, power output has been strengthened which has lead to lower distortion level. White noise is less vs 30GB9. Lower level SQ is better than GB9. Also said, SQ is not hugely different from GB9 (already very good SQ there) but if still it is better, it is still amazing.
If less noise, slightly better SQ (reality, liveness), double-up HD size, this must be a buy.

Some said if you like classic or accoustic, go for 60GD9EC.

Hope this helps.
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post #50 of 142
10/9/07 at 1:44am
White noise is less... making me want to get IEMs with it again!
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post #51 of 142
10/9/07 at 5:09am
Man i cant wait for a full review on the EC!
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post #52 of 142
10/12/07 at 1:17am
I belive bluetin told me my ec will ship october. Has it been pushed off?
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post #53 of 142
10/12/07 at 1:21am
Pushed off? It's always been November.
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post #54 of 142
10/17/07 at 1:44pm

HD60GD9 -Unboxing

My HD60GD9 arrived two days ago, so I thought I would post some pics, but im not going to review it yet because just ordered some Livewires and want to do a Um2 and Livewire comparison at the same time.

lol, I am new to this how do I upload pics larger than 25kb, beause all mine are way over that?

Thanks
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post #55 of 142
10/17/07 at 1:52pm
could use photobucket.com and link them.
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post #56 of 142
10/17/07 at 2:02pm
theres a big differance,

the 20gb and 30gb use toshiba GAL series series hard drive, which is 5mm high, but the 60gb has to go to a GAH series hard drive, which is 8mm due to dual platter, which would raise the price due to a change in the chasis of the player, or it uses a 60GB GAL drive which would be expencive as hell, becuase of using a 1.8" drive platter with the corresponding density to reach 60gb per platter, much more expencive drive,

steph, i guess i would have very little luck asking you to crack it open and check the drive, right ?
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post #57 of 142
10/17/07 at 3:49pm
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Originally Posted by Aevum View Post
theres a big differance,

the 20gb and 30gb use toshiba GAL series series hard drive, which is 5mm high, but the 60gb has to go to a GAH series hard drive, which is 8mm due to dual platter, which would raise the price due to a change in the chasis of the player, or it uses a 60GB GAL drive which would be expencive as hell, becuase of using a 1.8" drive platter with the corresponding density to reach 60gb per platter, much more expencive drive,

steph, i guess i would have very little luck asking you to crack it open and check the drive, right ?

No thats not a porblem, I just opened it up, it uses a Seagate Lyrion ST18 series hardrive, which I believe has now changed name to:

http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.js...&reqPage=Model.

I have taken a few more pictures of it open but am just figuring out how to upload so could be a few more hours before I get them up!

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Steph
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post #58 of 142
10/17/07 at 4:07pm
Hmmm... how much hiss does it have with the UM2 at low volumes?
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post #59 of 142
10/17/07 at 4:33pm
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Originally Posted by antonyfirst View Post
Hmmm... how much hiss does it have with the UM2 at low volumes?
To be honest I personally do not think there is much hiss, but how do you measure it, everyones perseptions are different! The hiss generally tends to increase and decrease dependant on what quality of mp3, the 200+kb/s sounds better.

I was however baffled as to why, when turning on the supreme ex function the sound quality is not as good as using the EQ function. But having said that I used some of the pre loaded demo tracks which were encoded in the Kenwood lossless format and used the supreme ex function with that and it was amazing, and then I tried it with my PA2 and it was even better.

Using standard mp3 formats and um2s unamped (with Custom EQ enabled) it sounds excellent, best mp3 player I have heard to date. As I mentioned in an earlier post, I have just ordered some livewires so I will post a more detailed review, and compare the um2s at the same time, this will also give me chance to become more farmiliar with the player and utilise its full potentioal, and run more tests on it!

There is only one problem I have come across so far and that is scrolling through a large number of artists quickly (ie. getting from A-S) can be a long process, there are several different scroll settings but when activated, don't seem to make any difference!

I'm going to have another look at the japanese manual to see if there is anything I can pick up about it!

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Steph
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post #60 of 142
10/17/07 at 4:34pm
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