Altmann Tera Player - Page 52  

Sounds like another happy member with a Tera. 

 

The Tera pairs well with PortaPro's but even better when modified. Some people around here can help you perform such a task if you want (check out my profile if you wanna know who helped with mine). 

 

Having bought a pre-owned Tera Player, I have no idea how it improves over time, but I look forward to hearing what you hear as you use it more and more. 

 

The AK1000 is a different beast, not entirely sure how they handle toe-to-toe but we shall eventually find out from someone.

Yes please let me know how to mod the Portapro's.

Thanks.

musicday,

 

Becalm yourself and try to moderate such unbridled enthusiasm for the Tera Player, lest you agitate non-owners into deriding us privileged few for sharing a mass delirium of sonic delight!  

 

Seriously though, enjoy your new acquisition my friend, as aural bliss awaits you.

 

Andy.

 

P.S. You can do much better than the Porta Pro, try the Audio Technica ATH-ES55 for starters.

 

Thank you Andy, I really enjoy my Tera Player and I don't feel the need to own another DAP.
I will see where I can find a pair of ATH-ES55 to listen to it.Is that better then Pro's modified? How about YP 1?
I feel very sorry for those who cannot/don't want to listen to the Tera Player before the speak about it.
We should have a forum for all the Tera Player owners.

I need to try one out,...I'm curious about how it sounds. I just balk at it's lack of a shuffle feature & being locked into using .WAV.

It has a random play feature. It's not great though when you don't have a large selection of music on the card. It will repeat often if you have only 1 album in an artist and then that artist. It basically generates a random number between 1 and the amount of folders you have at root (so Artists). It then goes into that folder it picked and generates a number between 1 and the amount of Folders in there (so Albums) and then the same thing for the songs. If you have only 1 album from an artist it means you are losing a step in the process of randomization and thus makes it less random.

 

WAV is actually quite nice. I've begun to notice the nuances of FLAC and AIFF and ALAC that are different from WAV with the same music. My preference lies with WAV for neutrality. 

 

I thought AIFF was to Apple computers as WAV is to everything else?

 

And if you're hearing differences betwen FLAC, ALAC, and WAV, that's got to be because of a hardware failing somewhere in the chain, doesn't it?  

It is. On a good enough system as oposed to a defective one, you can hear the extra processing of realtime lossless playback. Minor but there. A good AIFF rip is the equivilent of WAV. The playback simple involves a slightly different sequence in assembling a stream and seperating tags. Of course, who needs tags without a screen?

Edited by goodvibes - 12/13/12 at 12:12pm

 

Well, wouldn't it be nice to have TTS (tags to speech ;-) on the Tera Player?

I get happier day by day listening to Tera Player.

Even my music converted in FLAC and the to WAV sounds magical.And i love the simplicity of it.I need to ask Charles how he came up with the idea of this design etc.

I had it for 3 days now and is getting better I don't have any 24/192 files to compare them to 44.1 to hear the diffrence.

Is there a place where we can download free hi rez WAV files?

Quite simply.....Pong....

If you can hear that processing, then the hardware sucks....it's not that strenuous a process. 

Edited by Achmedisdead - 12/13/12 at 1:24pm

I don't have anything that powerful so maybe that's it but I find the bass more bloated when i go from CD to FLAC to WAV and use it on the Tera as opposed to CD to WAV

I think the fewer conversions, the better. My CD to .wav rips have all been excellent. Converting my .flac to .wav has not always sounded as good. Although .flac is lossless, it is still compressed. Not being a software engineer, I can only guess that this might be a possibility for a difference in sound.