Altmann Tera Player - Page 115  

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Originally Posted by flymetothemoon 

 

Hope you had a good holiday? Have you received your Tera Player now?

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Originally Posted by ace8888 

2) it's true that there's impedance mismatch with some headphones / iems. Fitear TG334 being one that I feel sounded weird and off and cured with portable amps I'm using with it.

Could this be a really nice looking portable amp for $200 (excluding ZIPPO shell) with endless possibilities?

http://rhapsodio-cmw.com/?p=1045

http://www.head-fi.org/t/629133/rhapsodio-a-unique-place-indeed-product-impressions-thread/150#post_9169173

The height without the volume knob is about 55mm so pretty close to TP's 57mm

http://www.brucciani-ltd.co.uk/shop/24/117/131/634/index.htm

There are literally thousands of choices and many of them are available from sellers in China with reasonable prices:

http://s.taobao.com/search?q=zippo+%BF%C7&cd=false

Pretty darn cool stuff for complementing TP and that BTL balanced output could be another bonus.

This particular shell actually costs more than the amp does

http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?id=15332994222

There are others with handcrafted patterns and they seemed to take custom-made orders as well

http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?id=10376059653
http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?id=14332751183
http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?id=16983354842
http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?id=18695671682
http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?id=18836055402

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Originally Posted by HiFlight 

Using the push buttons, one can quickly navigate by Artist, by Album, or play randomly. When playing randomly, if you hear a tune that you want to hear the complete album, one push will do that.

It is, however, rather cumbersome to locate one specific file if you have lots of albums or artists loaded onto your SDcard.

If you download the Tera-Player User Manual, it explains in detail the filesystem and how to navigate it.

Any reason for not including a litte display in Tera-Player?

I can imagine it is very hard to navigate from folders to folders, from songs to songs.....etc.

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Originally Posted by Achmedisdead 

There's a steering wheel, but no windows to see where you are going...lol.

It has those advance features like auto-pilot with GPS so window is not a must.

Continuing the automotive theme, this is what I liken using my Tera Player to driving:

A classic Morgan three wheeler.

Cheers,

Andy.

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Originally Posted by smial1966 

Continuing the automotive theme, this is what I liken using my Tera Player to driving:

 

 

 

A classic Morgan three wheeler.

 

Cheers,

 

Andy.

Hmm...for me definitely a Porsche 911GT3

supercar with blindfolded driver!

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Originally Posted by cyberalpha11 

Any reason for not including a litte display in Tera-Player?

I can imagine it is very hard to navigate from folders to folders, from songs to songs.....etc.

Some people, myself included, actually consider this a feature. 

I am one of those people.

First, a screen inherently adds noise into the enclosure. 

Second, the Tera Player is controlled by Assembly ARM language. That's a low level programming language (literally any closer to directly communicating to hardware would be the binary level, Assembly is considered the first realistic programming level up from binary, basically interchangeable with binary). Not only was this a choice Charles made, but it was the only way for him to get the size he wanted and the performance as well. The chip he used has no available space for any more controlling of any more items in the Tera Player. To add anything would require a complete redesign and performance compromises. 

Third, a screen means more battery usage. Some people even consider the ~15 hours of playback still unacceptable.

Four, It's extremely easy to navigate. It gets harder if you have a ridiculous amount of music and you wanna get to it quickly, but otherwise it's really easy to get quickly to whatever you want and as I have stated before, I can even tell my friends exactly how many presses of any buttons will get them to the song i want or they want without having to look at it.

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Originally Posted by woodcans 

Some people, myself included, actually consider this a feature. 

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Originally Posted by kenman345 

 

Third, a screen means more battery usage. Some people even consider the ~15 hours of playback still unacceptable.

 

I get that much playback with my rockboxed Clip Zips, and they have screens. 

I said some people, not everyone....

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Originally Posted by Achmedisdead 

I get that much playback with my rockboxed Clip Zips, and they have screens.