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Comment by 'paulr' in article 'High Res Music Download Sites'
Archive.org has a lot of high res downloads of various live shows.- paulr
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The FiiO X3 Thread UPDATE: Project Back On! Read the First Post for Information.
One thing I'd wish for is a FULL SIZED SDXC slot. You can already buy 128GB SDHC cards for $200 or so and prices will keep coming down. Except in a tiny player like a Sansa Clip, restricting to micro cards is a silly limitation. It's especially crazy in the large 10 inch Android tablets that...- paulr
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- Forum: Portable Source Gear
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Cowon J3 Impressions Thread
If anyone cares, ABI just ran the most brutal review I've ever seen, about the v5: http://www.anythingbutipod.com/archives/2010/05/cowon-v5-hd-review.php- paulr
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- Forum: Portable Source Gear
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Sansa Clip 2 GB Deal
Another possible alternative to the 2gb Clip is the v4 M250 which supposedly has about the same internal electronics so should have similar SQ. It is in slightly larger packaging and runs on an AAA cell instead of a built-in rechargeable. That means it's easy to swap out the AAA for another one...- paulr
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Cowon D2+ and Shure SE530
Quote: The 16gb J3 is on newegg.com right now (not sure about amazon) but a 32gb version has just come out in Korea, so maybe you want to keep waiting. Me, I have a D2 and prefer it to the J3 because of its full sized SDHC slot and its standard mini-USB connector instead of a proprietary...- paulr
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Cowon D2+ and Shure SE530
FlatNine, I'm pretty sure the current Fuze firmware supports both Flac and Ogg. Rockbox supports the v1 Fuze pretty well (the woot refurb I bought a few months ago is a v1). Rockbox for the current v2 Fuze still has some issues but some people are apparently using it. I may have...- paulr
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- Forum: Portable Source Gear
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Cowon D2+ and Shure SE530
OK, I went back and looked at those old threads and it looks like the bass rolloff effect is real, when driving low impedance phones, possibly due to coupling capacitors in the d2 output path. Low impedance = 16 ohms and lower, there are a bunch of graphs showing how the effect gets more...- paulr
- Post #9
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Jabra C820 Noise Cancelling Headphones
I haven't had any problem with mine and they seem built about as well as typical consumer headphones that I'm used to. I got them for around 50 bucks from woot and they were well worth it in my opinion. The list price of 180 would be too much. I think they are sort of knock-offs of the Bose...- paulr
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- Forum: Headphones (full-size)
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Deal alert: Shure SCL4 for $119 shipped - today only
Thanks. The E4 was the predecessor to the SE420 and cost about the same, unless I'm mistaken. I have the feeling that the markup on this stuff is phenomenal. I have SE210's and I like the way they sound, but I rarely use them because I greatly prefer full sized headphones to IEM's.- paulr
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- Forum: Portable Headphones, Earphones and In-Ear Monitors
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Deal alert: Shure SCL4 for $119 shipped - today only
Now back to $249 at that site, but typing "shure scl4" into google finds numerous other stores selling it at $119. Sounds like it's being discontinued. What is an scl4 anyway? Does it correspond to someplace in the se110/210/310/420/530 product line?- paulr
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Jabra C820 Noise Cancelling Headphones
I have a pair and was about to review them. They are great. From an audiophile perspective they sound like crap, but that's not the reason for using this type of device.- paulr
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Just got the Canon AE 1 Camera!!
The AE-1 was a breakthrough camera in that it was the first real mass market SLR. A great choice and you can get tons of fantastic lenses for it at bargain basement prices.- paulr
- Post #19
- Forum: Gear-Fi: Non-Audio Gear and Gadgets
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Sound Signature: Clip+ vs Cowon E2
There is a direct comparison review at iaudiophile.net (a cowon fan site, be aware). http://iaudiophile.net/forums/showthread.php?t=34374 ABI has a standalone review: http://www.anythingbutipod.com/archives/2009/11/cowon-iaudio-e2-review.php- paulr
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Battery Packs for Vintage Discman and a hello
I found some overpriced ones on google. My inclination would be to concoct something temporary using AA cells, and transfer those MD's to other media. You might be able to adapt a phone or PDA battery instead.- paulr
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Sansa Clip+ 8gb - initial musings
Indications are that using the card does shorten battery runtime. Using flac and ogg may also shorten it (more intense cpu demands than mp3). It hasn't been a problem for me since I usually listen to it near a computer, so I recharge it if the battery gauge starts getting low. I imagine I...- paulr
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Sansa Clip 2 GB Deal
I bought three of the 2gb's when they had the same deal some months ago. The $5 shipping is the same whether you buy 1,2, or 3, so it comes out to $1.67 per player for shipping. They are nice little players. One of these days I'll get an 8gb clip+, but those are around $55 at amazon last I...- paulr
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Sansa Clip+ Pic request
Wha? There's tons of clip+ pics around. What are you looking for?- paulr
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Cowon D2+ and Shure SE530
There was huge discussion of that curve on iaudiophile.net a while back and the rolloff appeared to be due to misinterpretation of the settings when the measurements were taken. If you turn off the BBE and set the equalization to flat, the rolloff goes away. The D2 output stage is quite...- paulr
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How many DAPs do you have?
I have about a dozen, mostly cheap refurb Sansas from Woot that I couldn't resist. I got them partly with the idea that if I did much Rockbox code hacking I'd end up bricking several. The main players I actually use are a Cowon D2 and a refurb 2gb Sansa Clip. The Clip is strapped to a...- paulr
- Post #96
- Forum: Portable Source Gear
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HeadAmp Pico Portable Amp (w/ optional upsampling 24/96 USB DAC) Pre-Order Thread
Nobody here any more? Is there another thread for those kinds of questions? This is the thread link from the headamp.com page about the amp.- paulr
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- Forum: Sponsor Announcements and Deals
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-- Cowon iAudio 7 review -- with lots of pictures (no blurry cell phone shots)
Why are there what looks like two headphone jacks? Is one of them a line in or something? I have a D2 but am intrigued by the i7, which seems to be discontinued. Some stores still have them, so if you want one, buy one now. The main thing stopping me is I really hate players with internal...- paulr
- Post #118
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Anyone still using cassette?
"On the move" no I guess not. But I still have a fair number of cassettes that I listen to at home, and want to get around to digitizing. And I still have my beloved brick of a Sony TC-D5M from sometime last century.- paulr
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HeadAmp Pico Portable Amp (w/ optional upsampling 24/96 USB DAC) Pre-Order Thread
Some questions about the dac/amp: 1) Is the battery user replaceable? Where can we get replacements? 2) Is the analog signal path completely isolated from the digital side? I ask that because my Headroom Total Bithead leaks 60 cycle hum from the USB port through to the headphones...- paulr
- Post #3,311
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netbook as source
I use Peltor noise cancellation headphones to absorb air conditioner and vehicle noise (coming from outside the building, I don't use them while driving). I find they are really terrible about picking up 60 cycle a/c line hum from my Lenovo laptop and Asus EEE netbook headphone out, though...- paulr
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Review: Portable amp roundup! 56 portable amps reviewed and compared - FINAL update 12-20-10 added RSA SR-71B
I searched for info on the HR Total Bithead/Total Airhead on this thread and found some references to a few other people asking about it but no reports about the more recent incarnations. I bought a Total Bithead about 3 months ago so it's the current model or close to it. It's the only...- paulr
- Post #2,274
- Forum: Portable Headphone Amps