hi! haven't posted here for ages, first time in the portable forum too.
anyway, i've had the sony s639 for... ages, it's been with me through a lot of scrapes and carries a lot of damage. but it's incredibly hardwearing and has actually lasted through two cheap portable phones (although one of them was the ksc75, so cheap but good
)
so i'm pretty fond of it. but right now i'm in japan, right, and i was sitting in a hotel public baths, listening to music (yeah.. i know..), specifically "you can't always get what you want" by the stones, possibly prophetic.
the cheap AT Qubes i had been using kept dropping in and breaking but i sucked the water out fine. then the sony dropped in. last few bars of stones as a swansong and then nothing. i know that usually, you can let the water evaporate out and they'll work fine, but this was onsen piped water... lots of minerals/salts so i figured the water had shorted everything important.
anyway it was a brick, a few days later i plugged in the charger for larfs, and, lo and behold, the welcome screen i love so much now all works fine as usual except i love it even more than usual, a really lovely little player.
the ATs actually broke but i got some EQ600s at Bic Camera so it's all good. if anyone wants my impressions on them btw i'd be glad to give them but as usual my opinion is based on very narrow experience with headphones
btw: a crazy thing about japan, if you go into bic camera or yodobashi or yamada denki, one of the huge electronics superstores, they usually have the full range of denon, sony, sennheiser (not the new ring-driver ones), audio-technica (generally with high-end woodies in a case), even STAX! to sample as you like. sometimes beyer too, and victor/jvc of course. really fun, although the piped music is usually rubbish and without a known source its a bit useless. actually yesterday they even had shure, UE etc. and a whole section of cables. so mad o.O
anyway, i've had the sony s639 for... ages, it's been with me through a lot of scrapes and carries a lot of damage. but it's incredibly hardwearing and has actually lasted through two cheap portable phones (although one of them was the ksc75, so cheap but good
)so i'm pretty fond of it. but right now i'm in japan, right, and i was sitting in a hotel public baths, listening to music (yeah.. i know..), specifically "you can't always get what you want" by the stones, possibly prophetic.
the cheap AT Qubes i had been using kept dropping in and breaking but i sucked the water out fine. then the sony dropped in. last few bars of stones as a swansong and then nothing. i know that usually, you can let the water evaporate out and they'll work fine, but this was onsen piped water... lots of minerals/salts so i figured the water had shorted everything important.
anyway it was a brick, a few days later i plugged in the charger for larfs, and, lo and behold, the welcome screen i love so much
now all works fine as usual except i love it even more than usual, a really lovely little player.the ATs actually broke but i got some EQ600s at Bic Camera so it's all good. if anyone wants my impressions on them btw i'd be glad to give them but as usual my opinion is based on very narrow experience with headphones
btw: a crazy thing about japan, if you go into bic camera or yodobashi or yamada denki, one of the huge electronics superstores, they usually have the full range of denon, sony, sennheiser (not the new ring-driver ones), audio-technica (generally with high-end woodies in a case), even STAX! to sample as you like. sometimes beyer too, and victor/jvc of course. really fun, although the piped music is usually rubbish and without a known source its a bit useless
. actually yesterday they even had shure, UE etc. and a whole section of cables. so mad o.O
