Any MP3 Player Similar to the AMP3? - Page 3  

rockbox is a part of rockbox developer team....

However, device manufacturer can greatly help in a porting effort.

Please don't make negative judgment on other's opinions. you can have yours.

Are you sure Ipod and ZUNE are 100% designed inside USA? Do you know Microsoft central developing and research institute in China is the biggest one among MC's all institutes?

Did you ever visit the China sourcing fair? Do you know there are thousands MP3 player makers in China? Do you think mp3 player is as complexed as a PC？why IPOD or ZUNE can't be ODM?

I have met a technical manager from Microsoft who were looking for the audio partner at the China sourcing fair. Microsoft is good at the software, not good at audio tech, the same to APPLE. this is the reason why IPOD still have no hifi grade player.

I am 100% sure that development and manufacturing processes are separate, and that zune and ipod are not developed on the fab.
Yes, i know that, but i have said not about "native" chinese players, but about branded ones (MS, Apple, Sony etc).
I didn't make any negative judgement. I haven't said that players developed in china are bad; i've just said that they're different from developed outside of china.

ok, it wast our time on talk about where is the designing place of a DAP. even if you are the manager of the developing department, you can't 100% sure the ZUNE is designed inside USA. For you can't decide everything for you have to consider the finalcial department controlling for the researching fee.

what is the best DAP in interm of soundquality in the market now? it is HIFIMAN, AMP3, and the upcoming STUDIO, they all come from China.

I think the global is become smaller now. American have a lot of perfect products and perfect designing.But How about American car? how about American PC? Those American glory are fade away now.Let a lone the simple DAP.But it is truth, MC designing departments are located in all over the world, India, China and other countries.

Any arguing is meaningless. As a music player,the only standard is the sound quality than not the original designing place.

Well, if you will look at the modern cell phones, you will notice that they're also coming from not-china brands. Samsung and LG are south-korean; i'm not sure what country does nokia belongs now, but it was finnish; SE is half-sweden, half-japanese... no china.
Yes, you're right. I believe that the problem is that "large" "western" companies are too "large"-market focused, they will not design anything that nearly nobody will buy. I believe, that small companies are always doing better (at least, from some points of view) products than large companies doing, because of the different scales and purposes.
Sound quality is important, but not the only factor. From the music player i also want a solid build quality (i believe that AMP3 has that, but it seems that all this chinese "MP5" players has not), great hardware interface (well, it seems, that AMP3 is better than "MP5", but there was many not-chinese players that was better - i'm saying "was" because now all are gone mad with that touchscreens), great software interface (and from what i have read, AMP3 is not better in this aspect than "MP5" - oh, god, why wouldn't they just port rockbox on it?), zero of bugs etc.
However, i can say that currently the only deal-breakers of AMP3 for me is firmware (why to develop this buggy and low-functionality thing when there is rockbox?) and storage (i don't see the point in purchasing a 4GB player, even if it will able to accept 32GB SD cards in the future; i want at least 64GB without a need of cart swapping; and 128GB preffered; 240GB is great as long as the player sounds great - unfortunately, this is a thing i cannot say about my ipod 5g )

Ok, Let return to the thread. AMP3 has it's limitation, such as no touch screen, no game ,no camera. But I think at least, AMP3 is a unique player. at least it let us have our right to have a selection. if there is no numerous Chinese DAP competing, Ipod will still price the 512 MB memory SHUFFLE with $ 300!!!!!,

Thank AMP3, thank all Chinese products to let us enjoy the low price products.( including American products which have to reduce their price to gainst the competiton.)

Huh? Even with no Chinese competition on the Shuffle (aka when it first came out), they were not priced $300.

Sorry, I don't say it priced at 300 dollars. It is a "if", not the truth. what I mean if there was no competition, IPOD shuffle could be sold with higher price.

Is the AMP3 Pro2 Sound Quality the Same or Better than the 1st?

How Much Storage does it have Out the Box?

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