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post #1 of 6
12/14/03 at 11:35am
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Hello Head Fi:

For a new entry into the MP3 & head-fi world, I was looking at picking up the Rio Nitrus, and pairing it with an ETY-6 or Shure E2. This sounds like a great rig for light weight, good sound quality and isolation, for riding the commuter train, flying and the gym.

Questions for you --

1) Can the Nitrus effectively power w/o an amp?

2) With Nitrus being 1.5GB only, is there an efficient MP3 format that would match the ETY-6 or E2 without going full bit rate? I was thinking of a VBR slightly north of 128kbps to keep the file sizes manageable

Let me know if you think this is feasible or if I really need to save up for a heavyweight system such as the Karma + amp to get around those two limitations


Thanks....

SR
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post #2 of 6
12/14/03 at 3:06pm
i dont think youd be happy with anything under 160 kbps 192 is where it starts to get ok, especially with a nice pair of headphones like the etys, maybe if you were useing the ones supplied with the nitrus from the factory ti would be ok but not with ety's
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post #3 of 6
12/14/03 at 3:16pm
After trying tons and tons of different ways to encode mp3s, I have found that the best way to get the job done is deffinatly via the LAME codec using --alt-preset-standard combined with EAC.

It's usually smaller or around the same size as 160-192k and is undetectable to my ears from the source using HD-280's (dearly departed now .. SR-80s are now on the way)

If the Nitrus can do Ogg or WMA .. those two codecs sound better at equal LAME bitrates when talking in terms above 128 so .. your milage may vary. If you aren't using high quality headphones, then you can get away with 128k WMA's without problems.
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post #4 of 6
12/14/03 at 5:56pm
I definitely agree with around a 192 bitrate VBR ogg.
I'm uncertain if the Nitrus supports ogg though, as it's not listed on the Rio site. (only states wma and mp3)
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post #5 of 6
12/14/03 at 6:17pm
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Originally posted by CrawlingEye
I definitely agree with around a 192 bitrate VBR ogg.
I'm uncertain if the Nitrus supports ogg though, as it's not listed on the Rio site. (only states wma and mp3)
The Nitrus does not support Ogg, nor are there any plans for it to.
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post #6 of 6
12/14/03 at 6:37pm
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Originally posted by Rizumu
The Nitrus does not support Ogg, nor are there any plans for it to.
yack, that scratches one possibility of a present off my Christmas list for my girlfriend.
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