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VZ, did your Sandisk cards work on the Colourfly C4pro as mine work fine on that player?

Thanks....

Now I recall another thread from another forum in Hong Kong regarding Sandisk 64GB cards

http://www.hkepc.com/forum/viewthread.php?tid=1830406

In general, they seemed to have better luck with Class 6 cards than Class 10 ones.

Basically if someone were formatting their Sandisk 64GB cards with older card readers that did not even support SDXC to begin with, most likely those cards are "gone" for good and must be replaced under warranty.

In other words, that might have caused some irreversible damages to the flash memory chips while not much could be done by an end user afterwards. Definitely check the official web site of your card reader's manufacturer and confirm that SDXC cards are indeed supported. Preferably *BOTH* SDXC *AND* micro SDXC flavors are supported so there will be no surprises.

If your card reader were not the culprit, just try to format your card(s) again with the *official* SD Formatter 4.0 instead of something else:

https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_4/

Hopefully that will allow us to pick FAT32 for 64GB cards. If not, version 2.0.0.3 is still available at the moment:

https://eww.pavc.panasonic.co.jp/support/jp/sd/sdfv2003.exe

BTW, glad to know more fellow owners of TP here in Hong Kong. If only we could figure out how to get HDMV LPCM (from Blu-ray) working on TP. Still not getting anywhere with that one yet, even Colorfly C4 Pro kept throwing that "Play Error!" while both FFMpeg and eac3to gave me the same results so far. Somehow everything is OK with my laptop running Windows 8.

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Originally Posted by spkrs01 

VZ, did your Sandisk cards work on the Colourfly C4pro as mine work fine on that player?

 

Thanks....

The Colorfly uses MicroSD cards, I use normal-size SD for the Tera...

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Originally Posted by VisceriousZERO 

 

The Colorfly uses MicroSD cards, I use normal-size SD for the Tera...

Oh Ok, thanks! 

That is helpful....

Speaking of SD cards, some DX100 users have been very fond of those Made in Japan brands such as Toshiba

http://www.mingo-hmw.com/forum/viewthread.php?tid=138784&extra=page%3D1&page=127

They claimed that SQ was improved with cards from Japan but personally I cannot confirm those experiences.

Toshiba and Panasonic cards are most definitely Made in Japan. Kingston like this one is also from Japan

http://hardwarebistro.com/?option=com_simple_review&Itemid=84&review=96-Kingston-32GB-Class-4-SDHC-Review

Kingston actually printed Japan on the front side of their micro SDHC cards so that one should be obvious. There are other less popular brands as well

http://www.mars.dti.ne.jp/~mshin/sigmarion2/cards.html

Mighty interesting comparisons below

IMHO the so-called "litmus test" could be the consumer MLC cards versus bloody expensive industrial SLC cards. Granted we are not even interested in the speed for our specific purpose here but how would an excellent card affect the SQ if someone were willing to shell out the cash?

Here are quite a few SLC cards that should cost an arm and a leg

http://us.apacer.com/products/Industrial-SD-ET

http://www.atpinc.com/p2-4a.php?sn=00000395

http://www.citiem.co.kr/contents/products/secure-digital.html?sm=2_1

http://www.delkinoem.com/secure-digital-industrial.html

http://www.green-house.co.jp/news/2008/r0609a.html

http://www.integralmemory.com/product/endurance-sdhc-class-10-memory-card

http://panasonic.net/avc/sdcard/industrial_sd/lineup.html

http://www.pretec.com/products/industrial-products/industrial-sdsdhc-card/item/industrial-sdsdhc-card-series/isdisdhc-card#magictabs_hLAYq_2

http://www.ritekusa.com/ConsumerProducts/SecureDigitalSDCards/SDSDHCSupremeSLC.aspx

http://www.silicon-power.com/news/news_detail.php?no=20090108001&css_1=1

http://www.transcend-info.com/Press/index.asp?LangNo=0&Func1No=6&Func2No=219&Func3No=55&axn=Detail&PrsNo=9738

http://www.psism.com/industrialsd.htm

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Originally Posted by woodcans 

My Tera arrived this morning. Briefly, this is the real deal. Excellent, excellent sound with ie800. Will post more detailed impressions and brief comparison with rwak100 after I have had more time to listen.

Lucky you! I still have about 2 weeks to go before mine is supposed to show up. I look forward to hearing your impressions.

I did receive a modded Porta-Pro I ordered from Highflight so I will have that to pair with the Tera. With my DX100 and my Continental amp, the Porta-Pro sounds surprisingly good for an inexpensive phone. It makes me believe it could be something special with the Tera.

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Originally Posted by woodcans 

Haha, I just might have to pick up a porta pro 'just to see'.

Yes, the modded pair I have sound surprisingly close to my HD650s. There is a little more fullness and body to the Hd650s, and also a little more realism and transparency, but in most respects the modded Porta-Pros sound amazingly close. I am eager to hear them with the Tera.

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Originally Posted by Nirmalanow 

Yes, the modded pair I have sound surprisingly close to my HD650s. There is a little more fullness and body to the Hd650s, and also a little more realism and transparency, but in most respects the modded Porta-Pros sound amazingly close. I am eager to hear them with the Tera.

I should also mention that the Porta-Pros are not broken in. I just got them today, and played them for an hour with the Isotek burn-in CD before listening.

I prefer the Porta Pro to the HD650 unless the 650 is balanced.