Altmann Tera Player - Page 28  

I have one, but I'd much rather meet you to let you try it if you're ever in NYC. Otherwise it's never leaving my possession

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Originally Posted by darinf 

Does anyone on this thread have a Tera Player that lives in the US? (I know someone must...)

 

I'd be willing to pay you to "rent" your player to me just so I can hear it. It would be worth the extra expense to be able to audition it before buying one.

 

PM me if you're interested.

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Originally Posted by kenman345 

I have one, but I'd much rather meet you to let you try it if you're ever in NYC. Otherwise it's never leaving my possession

Yes, of course. I totally understand.

I lived in NYC for 7 years and miss it greatly. Unfortunately, I never have a chance to get back out there. I'll definitely let you know if I do make it some day.

OK, so there's no one in Southern California with one? I'll come meet you. Or you can come to the San Diego Head-Fi meet. I'll buy you dinner. ;-)

I definitely am excited about the PK1's. They're on my list of things to get soon. Got a few real world expenses I need to take care of first.

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Originally Posted by flkin 

HiFlight has got the description off the difference between the two headphone sockets very accurately described. I agree with his comments almost exactly. I would just like to add that in my JH16pro IEM, I hear some slight hiss from the edge socket which disappears once you start listening to music. But I find it the most accurate presentation from the Tera Player. Listening to the center socket sounds very slightly duller and a touch recessed after the side socket.
I've also been using the Tera Player with the Yuin PK1 and the match is pretty tremendous. Easy-to-use, portable and you can listen for an entire day without the slightest bit of discomfort. Some of the 2 microphone Clarity Recordings played through this combo are to die for.
With 200 hours burn in on the Tera and 300 hours on the PK1 (thanks HiFlght for the suggestion), I am currently in audio heaven!

EDIT: I just saw this and am thinking it might make a nice case for my Tera Player and maybe my CIEM's. http://www.aloaudio.com/the-pan-am-en-2 (the small 5.5x5" bag)

This player looks like it's built to take abuse, doesn't suffer with interference and by all accounts sounds great - can someone please tell me the "near gapless" gaps are annoying, to save my wallet?  Black and orange is even my favourite colour scheme!

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Originally Posted by HiFlight 


Yes, the Tera is near gapless IF the track contains data to the end of the track, however many tracks contain several seconds of silence before the recording ends. The Tera does not clip this silence so in such recordings there will be a gap until the track truly ends.
The sound of this player is the best I have heard from any DAP!

Oh no!  I was talking about gapless albums (or at least tracks) on live recordings as well as some of the prog I listen to.  Can't expect anything fancy like silence clipping on a device costing this much

But even if it did handle gaps badly I'd probably do just as well having albums in a single file, would make "navigation" as easy as pressing next track...

Thanks HiFlight, just the financial hurdle to push past now - it's a lot of money to spend "deaf".

I honestly was not blown away at first. Then a day or two later I realized how great the player is. Then a week later I noticed I had a layer of dust on my iPod Classic. The dust layer has only gotten thicker since. Looking forward to hearing about your responses to being an owner. Good luck with the money saving.

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Originally Posted by suicidal_orange 

Thanks HiFlight, just the financial hurdle to push past now - it's a lot of money to spend "deaf".

the Tera Player is "basically gapless". you wont notice much of a gap at all if you cut off between words. But you can't fast forward with the Tera Player. Also, be reminded you can only have 127 files per album per artist. 

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Originally Posted by flkin 

Apart from speed of change, there is another advantage of gapless tracks. I use iRecordmusic to download BBC radio to listen to offline. Since the Tera Player tracks are gapless, I can set the radio tracks to be 2 or 3 minutes rather than continuous but the playback on the TP is still continuous. And I can then skip forward easily.

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Originally Posted by kenman345 

Also, be reminded you can only have 127 files per album per artist. 

Oh no, that's a shame...  Seriously, I thought Beyond Twilight were crazy putting out an album in 43 parts on one CD - is 127 tracks really limiting?  Worth knowing though, just incase I decided to buy a 128gb card and throw all the single file albums in the root of the card.

it's the way things are addressed. it's the same number as the amount of items you can link through a USB port. Basically, you can have 127 items (folders or songs) in the root, 127 subfolders or songs in the next level, and 127 songs in the bottom level. It adds up to a potential of a lot of tracks. But it is something to be aware of if you are gonna be separating out lengths of audio. 

Looks like i was wrong, here's the excerpt from the manual:

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Originally Posted by suicidal_orange 

Oh no, that's a shame...  Seriously, I thought Beyond Twilight were crazy putting out an album in 43 parts on one CD - is 127 tracks really limiting?  Worth knowing though, just incase I decided to buy a 128gb card and throw all the single file albums in the root of the card.